Quotes to Ponder: Authenticity

 

Quotes on Authenticity

 What is Authenticity? Is it the new catchword for Integrity? Who are you, really? Every wonder? For most of us, this should have been answered long ago. But sometimes, we forget. I offer the following for a giggle, reminder, or a reflection on the possible. I hope you enjoy.

 

“Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.” Brene Brown

 

“If you’re your authentic self, you have no competition.” Anonymous

 

“Don’t trade your authenticity for approval.” Anonymous

 

“Authenticity is magnetic.” Anonymous

 

“Don’t talk about it, be about it.” Anonymous

 

“Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.” Coco Chanel

 

“Authenticity requires a certain measure of vulnerability, transparency, and integrity.” Janet Louise Stephenson

 

“I’ve always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.” Dita Von Teese

 

“Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.” Marcus Buckingham

 

“You attract the right things when you have a sense of who you are.” Amy Poehler

 

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” Friedrich Nietzsche

 

“To become conscious and aware, we must become authentic. Authenticity is the highest form of being.” Teal Swan

 

“Living from a place of authenticity is difficult because those living in distortion see you as a threat to their delusion and some are so attached to that delusion that they will behave in erratic ways to defend their ego’s projection of wounding.” Suzanne Wagner

 

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” E.E. Cummings

 

“When you are authentic, you create a certain energy, people want to be around you because you are unique.” Andie MacDowell

 

“Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.” Eckhart Tolle

 

“To become authentic we require a thirst for freedom.” Don Mateo Sol

 

“Have the courage to be who you want to be, in a world that is trying to make you like everyone else.” ATGW

 

“Authenticity is about being true to who you are.” Michael Jordan

 

“As I began to love myself. I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living my own truth. Today I know this is Authenticity.” Charlie Chaplin

 

“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.” William James

 

”Authenticity is more than speaking; Authenticity is also about doing. Every decision we make says something about who we are.” Simon Sinek

 

“When you show up authentic, you create the space for others to do the same. Walk in your truth.” Anonymous

 

And finally:

 

“Be yourself, everyone else is taken.” Oscar Wilde

~DaMarie

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