Best 234 quotes in «genuine quotes» category

Sexiness is all about your personality, being genuine and confident, and being a good person.

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

Take 30 seconds to encourage everyone you meet today. Everyone. Be genuine and transparent. And do it. Then do it tomorrow. Repeat.

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.

The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

Swami Vivekananda: The genuine orator exercises a sort of hypnotism over his audience. I have listened to many orators, Indian, English and American; but Keshub Chunder Sen is easily the greatest of all.

The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.

The greater your cares, the more genuine your prayers

There can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from the home.

The language is spare and under control and has a genuine immediacy...The poems never preach but are lined out with a cool and therefore devastating effect

The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and His work become the one and only thing that is vital between us.

There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.

The much-lauded parliamentary democracy in India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir.

The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

The really tough choices...don't center upon right versus wrong. They involve right versus right. They are genuine dilemmas precisely because each side is firmly rooted in one of our basic, core values.

There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.

There is no better friendship booster than the ability to listen. The ability to show genuine interest in others is an admirable quality of a true friend.

There is a reciprocal respect for [ Elizabeth II], for her interest in the Commonwealth. The members of the Commonwealth recognise that here is a genuine interest from the top. So, that's one reason. I'm not putting it necessarily in order of importance.

There is false humility and genuine humility and between them, there is a desire of the practitioner to become humble.

There is no consensus in Israel regarding the two-state formula. We will not, under any circumstances, allow the establishment of a neighboring state that will be a genuine threat on our existence.

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us

There is no higher qualification than genuine inspiration.

The remarkable thing about Hitler was his talent for dissimulation. His formidable abilities as an actor are often overlooked. There are only very rarely situations where we can say he was being genuine.

The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.

The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.

True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection.

Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.

True friends share genuine closeness and remain friends irrespective of fluctuating fortunes.

We all know that a good person can be a bad artist.But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a great human being and thus also a good one.

Unless you go through all the genuine angers you feel, both justified and unjustified, the feelings of love that you have will not have any legitimate base and will be at least partially false. Plus, eventually you will go crazy.

We had a very good relationship. Very good. I liked [Sonny Ramphal]. I thought he was a genuine man.

We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being more comfortable to our natures.

We will know our forgiveness is complete when we have a genuine desire for the welfare of the people who have wronged us.

We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment.

What makes me vulnerable is any genuine expression of emotion in the presence of another person. It makes me vulnerable and my inclination is, of course, immediately to back away from anything that makes me vulnerable.

What if you have a genuine and captivating beauty that is marred only by your striving?

What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.

Will we rise to the challenge and prove our capacity for genuine altruism by ending our ruthless exploitation of the species in our power, not because we are forced to do so by rebels or terrorists, but because we recognize that our position is morally indefensible?

What you take to be hyprocrisy is sometimes a certain caution, sometimes genuine, though ponderous, childish, sometimes a mixture of both.

When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.

When you're true to yourself - not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a clip someplace, but the audience that actually comes and watches, just like Oprah - they get to know you and they sense something genuine.

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

You need to believe in yourself and what you do. Be tenacious and genuine.

Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.

Your friend, your enemy, your neutral all are equal. Genuine compassion is unbiased.