36 Quotes About Genuineness

Emphasizing genuineness in your personal life is the best way to strongly connect with other individuals and become empathetic in your life. Many people encounter a conflict they need resolution or just need a friend in their life, these quotes about genuineness capture the essence of authenticity and how it is an important part of living our daily life.

“A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.”

“A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness.”

“All the events said to have been witnessed by John alone are omitted by John alone. This fact seems fatal either to the reality of the events in question or to the genuineness of the Fourth Gospel.”

“Best keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you see the world.”

“Can you stop your memory on a dime, put it in reverse, and spin it in another direction the way you can reverse direction on a tape recorder? We cannot forget on command.”

“Culture arises only when the individual fulfills his cycle of obligations. If everyone recognizes and fulfills his cycle of obligations, genuineness emerges. The culture of a whole nation can in the final analysis be built upon nothing else.”

“Don’t over analyze your relationships.”

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

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”

“Genuineness requires listening through both verbal and nonverbal channels.”

“Go to Mozambique! As long as you don’t expect to find flawless infrastructure, just go. Because this is a country where people have not quite grown accustomed to tourists. You still feel a genuineness that no longer exists in countries where tourism has been industrially developed.”

“Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.”

“Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn’t have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.”

“How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly. ”

“If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.”

“If God made no response except to perfect faith, who could hope for help? But God has regard for beginnings, and His eye perceives greatness in the germ. ”

“If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is suffering. The one is naturally consequent on the other. A willingness to suffer proves the genuineness of love.”

“If we are given gold, would we not test it to determine it’s value? If we doubted its genuineness – we would test it by fire…and so God with us….”

“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.”

“I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.”

“Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart – it’s all a man has.”

“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.”

“No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.”

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

“People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don’t have to think about whether it’s true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness.”

“See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. … He burns, too, the purest of oil. … It is sweet as early grass butter in April.”

“Spiritual maturity is measured not by the sophistication of a person’s opinions, but by their genuineness and the courage necessary to express and maintain them.”

“That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.”

“The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That’s how I feel now, no matter what you’re doing.”

“The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.”

“The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.”

“There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man’s faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite of everything.”

“These then are the marks of the ideal Church – love, suffering, holiness, sound doctrine, genuineness, evangelism and humility. They are what Christ desires to find in His churches as He walks among them.”

“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.”

“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.”

“What fun is it being cool if you can’t wear a sombrero?”

Authenticity is not something you can buy. You have to embrace it, be it, and live it.