Authenticity Quotes

"Find out who you are and be that person."

Ellen DeGeneres

"The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but to be yourself all the time."

J. Krishnamurti

"I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time."

Herbert Bayard Swope

"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."

George Burns

"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself."

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

E. E. Cummings

"The faith that stands on authority is not faith."

"Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real."

Thomas Merton

“I kind of put myself out there as is. I'm a quiet person. I don't know if that's surprising. I'm a Pilates junkie.”

"There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one."

Sue Atkins

“Don't worry about what's cool and what's not cool. Authenticity is what's cool.”

“Authenticity from a person and product is absolutely essential.”

“I'll never try to put on a fake image. I'm just Zac.”

“This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”

“The thing is, I make music I like. So it's just weird if someone says they don't like it.”

“I never want to change so much that people can't recognise me.”

“I don't feel ashamed to be loud, which is an argument I've had with lots of men, who thought I was too sassy and unladylike.”

“When I just decided to be myself, that's when you get questions like, "How do you feel about feminism?" And I have no idea; this is just when I decide what I'm not tolerating and what I genuinely think.”

“Be as you wish to seem.”

“Insist on yourself; never imitate.”