Authenticity Quotes


Authenticity quotes and sayings about living authentically all provide encouragement to be who you were born to be and do what you were born to do. Too often we get sidetracked by other people’s dreams and desires for us. The time to reclaim your destiny is now. Be true to yourself. Re-connect with your authentic passions and purpose and joys. For more information on this process, send a note to me: Marta@joyofquotes.com and I’ll be happy to send you my special “Simple Steps for Tuning into Your Authentic Passion and Purpose” report.



The authentic self is soul made visible.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

Do not carry the burden of the past; do not live in the future. The only important thing is that one lives in the present authentically and fully. Whatever your current life is, be the most you can be by living in the moment.
Chan Chih

Each of us possesses a creative self. Claiming that is a transformational art. When you begin to act on your creativity,what you find inside may be more valuable than what you produce for the external world. The ultimate creative act is to express what is most authentic and individual about you.
Eileen M. Clegg

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
Alan Cohen

A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity….one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

To be nobody but myself-in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me somebody else-means to fight the hardest battle any human can fight, and never stop fighting.
e.e. cummings

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
Barbara de Angelis

I want to remind us all that the world is listening, all the time. How we are ripples out from us into the world and affects others. We have a responsibility – an ability to respond – to the world. Finding our particular way of living this responsibility, of offering who we are to the world, is why we are here. We are called because the world needs us to embody the meaning in our lives. God needs us awake. The world we live in is a co-creation, a manifestation of individual consciousness woven into a collective dream. How we are with each other as individuals, as groups, as nations and tribes, is what shapes that dream.
Oriah Mountain Dreamer

What if the question is not why I am so infrequently the person I really want to be, but why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am?
Oriah Mountain Dreamer

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

Don’t let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.
Melissa Etheridge

Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of someone else.
Judy Garland

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
Charles Evans Hughes

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

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Steve Jobs

Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
Janis Joplin

The most common form of despair is not being who you are…
Søren Kierkegaard

Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
Steven Pressfield

The ultimate goal of being ourselves in an authentic way is actually about loving ourselves in a generous way.
Mike Robbins

When we are enthusiastic we are intoxicated with passion rooted in our true selves and it flows into all we do.
Linda Saccoccio

The closer you come to your core, the greater is your joy.
Torkom Saraydarin

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.
Charles Schaefer

Man’s ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy – that he live in accordance with his own nature.
Seneca

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
Dr. Seuss

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.
William Shakespeare

The significant business of your life is alive and well, awaiting discovery, within your very own soul. You and I were born to come into ourselves as complete and distinctive persons. Accepting this, we build a valuable life.
Marsha Sinetar

We are constantly invited to be who we are.
Henry David Thoreau

Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.
Oprah Winfrey



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