Top 88 Self Authenticity Quotes
#1. Be real. Be authentic. Be yourself, whatever the emotional cost. Pain goes away, while regret over a life lived trying to be a plastic version of yourself does not.
Vironika Tugaleva
#2. There is a difference between working hard to create a life that truly serves you
and working hard to create a life that you've been told you should want.
Vironika Tugaleva
#3. Polarities of the 'authentic' vs. the 'inauthentic' are easily discernible in recreational modes. The criteria of authenticity are not necessarily objective but rather have to do with the rules by which the self allows or disallows its own experience.
Walker Percy
#4. Always do your best to be yourself. Learn to listen to your inner-voice. This is your true authenticity; this is who you really are. Self-discovery of your inner-self is the path to your destiny ...
James A. Murphy
#5. High above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self.
Mollie Marti
#6. It is not until you learn to look at yourself, through the truth of who you are, that you can look at someone else.
Vironika Tugaleva
#7. Who was I fooling, telling my heart to quiet its beautiful song so I could march in the parade of conformity? My biggest fool was me.
Vironika Tugaleva
#9. An authentic life facing reality without mental equivocation is the simplest type of life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#10. Today is a good day to tackle a fear and make yourself proud.
April WIlliams
#11. When you are your authentic self, you fulfill the possibilities that dwell inside your soul.
April WIlliams
#12. You want to be popular? It's easy to do. Just be a total weirdo and love yourself for it.
Dan Pearce
#13. Nothing is more attractive than being your authentic self!
Dawn Gluskin
#15. Because when you stop worrying about what anyone else things, life gets a whole lot easier".
April WIlliams
#16. If you are feeling constrained by a group that you belong to, ask yourself,
"How can I participate in this community and still be who I am?
Gina Greenlee
#17. Practice holding labels lightly as leaders so you have greater range in your behaviors and are more adaptable and effective in a greater range of situations.
Henna Inam
#18. True beauty can only be found in the true Self.
Ka Chinery
#19. It's not odd these days to hear politicians trumpeting their own authenticity, a claim that an earlier day would have considered self-cancelling. But when Michelle Bachman, Rick Perry, and Rick Santorum say "I'm authentic," they're not evoking the shade of Neal Cassady. (102)
Geoffrey Nunberg
#20. Embracing your authentic self is medicine for the soul.
April WIlliams
#21. You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by someone that was honest with him or herself.
Shannon L. Alder
#22. When we are driven by ego and a relentless need to succeed, it's easy to blindly neglect the relationships, self-care and truth that will create joy and authentic fulfillment in our lives.
Shannon Tanner
#23. The property that grounded the self in Romanticism was sincerity, and in modernism was authenticity, then in postmod ernism it is visibility.10
Chris Hedges
#24. We can't turn our true selves off and on situationally and expect them to carry and sustain us. Rationing creativity results in bipolarism of the spirit. Our creativity is also our life force. When we turn it off and on like a spigot, we start to become less and less able to control the valve.
S. Kelley Harrell
#25. I figure the more people think I'm just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am.
Melanie Hooyenga
#26. If our sense of self, our values and our ideals, do not originate from within - but are instead largely influenced, shaped or fashioned by celebrated characters - we fall under the spells of idol worship without realizing we have 'souled out'.
T.F. Hodge
#27. You'll never know who you are unless you shed who you pretend to be.
Vironika Tugaleva
#28. One is free from depression," writes Alice Miller in The Drama of the Gifted Child, "when self-esteem is based on the authenticity of one's own feelings and not on the possession of certain qualities.
John Bradshaw
#29. Within, you hold a tiny piece of eternity, a fraction of life, a mirror of the universe.
Vironika Tugaleva
#30. Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love.
Charlotte Eriksson
#31. Being true to ourselves is about having courage to define our own version of what it is to live a successful life.
Henna Inam
#32. It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
Alison Bechdel
#33. Authenticity is our natural state of being. The authentic self is a state of being where we are centered, creative, adaptive, and inspired.
Henna Inam
#34. Being your authentic self reassures the people you meet.
Sam Owen
#35. Don't worry about the ones who don't recognize your worth. Not everyone has an eye for talent.
April WIlliams
#36. Do you to the best of your ability with love, passion and purpose. The right tribe of people will fall into your life.
April WIlliams
#37. The real you focuses on goals that inspire you and doesn't let "that's just not me!" stand in the way.
Henna Inam
#38. Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.
Tom Shadyac
#39. My happiness will not be ruined by people who can not find their own.
April WIlliams
#40. I never realized how intimidating it could be to be authentic
Jordon Johnson
#41. The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.
Bryant McGill
#42. Authenticity is a continual process of building self-awareness, a journey through which we acknowledge both our strengths and our limitations, and come to identify a noble purpose.
Tom Hayes
#43. A Permeable Life is about what presses out from the heart, what comes in at a slant and what shimmers below the surface of things. To live permeably is to be open-hearted and audacious, to risk showing up as our truest self, and embracing a willingness to be astonished.
Carrie Newcomer
#44. I did not come this far to settle for less than I deserve.
April WIlliams
#45. 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.
Brene Brown
#46. What may appear to be the wrong way by other people's standards may indeed be the perfectly inspired path by which you will arrive at clarity of mind and a more authentic expression of yourself.
Linda Cull
#47. She knew Indians were obsessed with authenticity. Colonized, genocided, exiled, Indians formed their identities by questioning the identities of other Indians. Self-hating,
Sherman Alexie
#48. What gives journalism its authenticity and vitality is the tension between the subject's blind self absorption and the journalist's skepticism. Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.
Janet Malcolm
#49. An honorable leader must demonstrate a willingness to reveal his or her 'inner self' to their team. It builds trust and trust is essential. It's also a sign of strength and authenticity, and people are attracted to those who are 'real' and authentic.
Lee Ellis
#50. To return to our authenticity, we have to let go of all that we are not. We recognize and let go of the judgments, fears, and "shoulds" that keep us stuck.
Henna Inam
#51. Once you accept and rejoice in your authenticity, you begin to see things as YOU are. You begin to see the authentic self is the Soul made visible. Godspeed on your journey to wholeness.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#52. Don't dilute your core message burning in your spirit just to satisfy the masses
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#53. If you don't know who you truly are, you'll never know what you really want.
Roy T. Bennett
#54. Love actually is a great act of the will. It's when I say, "I desire your good, not for my sake but for yours". To love is to break out of the black hole of the ego and say, "My life is about you".
Bishop Robert Barron
#55. What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.
Oprah Winfrey
#56. There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.
Theodore Dalrymple
#57. Our work is not to become unique. We are unique. Our work is to unleash our sense of adventure and to allow the inner whisper that says "come hither" to be reason enough to go.
Vironika Tugaleva
#59. Sincerity is a Christian virtue, as is honesty about our struggles. But my generation needs to realize that Christianity is more than chic fragility, endless self-revelation, and the coolness that comes with authenticity.
Kevin DeYoung
#60. Be wary of a self-professed "nice guy". Anyone who is always going around saying they are "just trying to be nice" are most often, anything but nice. -If you're truly kind and loving, you don't have to "try". It comes naturally.
Miya Yamanouchi
#61. Try seeing, feeling, and tasting the water you swim in the way a land animal might perceive it. You may find the experience fascinating -- and mind-expanding.
Erin Meyer
#62. Simply by being your absolute, most genuine self in every interaction of every hour, you provide a great and rare service on this earth.
Roland Merullo
#63. We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.
Mary E. DeMuth
#64. We should be authentic: the 'real deal'. Neither a clone nor mimic be.
Fennel Hudson
#66. Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
Laila Ali
#67. We throw away real people searching for the "perfect" person the same way that we throw ourselves away searching for our "perfect" self.
Vironika Tugaleva
#68. In your heart, you have a song that will change the world, once you give yourself permission to sing.
Vironika Tugaleva
#69. Lineage, personality, and environment may shape you, but they do not define your full potential.
Mollie Marti
#70. Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.
Karl Rahner
#71. The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.
Simon Mainwaring
#72. As you become more aligned with the truth of who you are, the question of liking yourself goes away. It is a natural state of being.
Rachel Archelaus
#74. It would be wise to define 'living' as walking in the fullest expression of who I am, verses wallowing in the confines of who I'm not.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#75. Don't believe everything you think. Our minds are thought-creating machines. Most of these thoughts are fear-based. Our authentic self has the power to pick the thoughts that best serve us and those we lead.
Henna Inam
#77. The ultimate barrier against love is the barrier of the constructed self.
Vironika Tugaleva
#78. It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively
which means to live authentically
is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding
from others and also from themselves.
Nathaniel Branden
#79. In a world of increasing fakery, genuine people are the sexiest.
Sam Owen
#81. We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
May Sarton
#82. Authentic leadership is a whole body experience. Our bodies have a lot more to teach us about ourselves than our thoughts.
Henna Inam
#83. Ego is borne of the need to 'prove' oneself instead of making the choice to 'be' oneself. And so maybe we need to begin curbing the birthrate.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#84. We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.
Chip Conley
#85. When we become more self-aware of our needs, we become better-equipped to take
care of ourselves.
Aletheia Luna
#86. A lot of the conflict you have in your life exists simply because you're not living in alignment; you're not be being true to yourself.
Steve Maraboli
#87. Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.
Brennan Manning
#88. We sacrifice our potential because we do not know that we are pure potential.
Vironika Tugaleva
