Quotes on Authenticity

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.

"Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: Sustained success comes only when you take what's unique about you and figure out how to make it useful!"

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.

Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the authenticity of which no one dreams of questioning. And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.

This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.

What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.

Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that is damaging to self or to others, the more "natural" it will both seem and actually be. Spontaneity, left to itself, can begin by excusing bad behavior and end by congratulating vice.

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.