Best 234 quotes in «genuine quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

All I’m saying is that I want you to be happy. I don’t care how it happens, or what it takes to facilitate it. I don’t care if it happens with me or without me. I don’t care if you use me to get there, or if I’m entirely irrelevant to your process. None of me is attached to how your happiness happens; I care only that it does.

A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn't really mind it.

A person who does not know himself... can not commit to another person. Without being genuine to yourself you are unable to be genuine to anyone else.

A smile will go the mile, while a frown will take you down.

A true generous heart can never revolve majorly with monetary skills nor business acumen nor cunning mind.

At the behest of the criterion of authenticity, much that was once thought to make up the very fabric of culture has come to seem of little account, mere fantasy or ritual, or downright falsification. Conversely, much that culture traditionally condemned and sought to exclude is accorded a considerable moral authority by reason of the authenticity claimed for it, for example, disorder, violence, unreason.

Authenticity is who you are-your honest reactions, your natural energy

Authenticity is the language of visionaries.

Don't lie to protect my feelings. I'd rather you speak the truth with love and respect. I'll be fine!

Be careful for the things you have heard, seldom you will find the genuine one. And be careful what you spread for, it might seem your a gossiper.

Be cautious of every motive behind any action, because not every smile is genuine; sometimes it is just a grin.

Be yourself because an original is worth more than a copy.

Don't tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated.

If you are filled with hatred, you can hardly enjoy genuine happiness. Hatred makes your personality extremely fragile and you lose your temper on the slightest pretext, which further creates enmity.

England has her Stratford, Scotland has her Alloway, and America, too, has her Dresden. For there, on August 11, 1833, was born the greatest and noblest of the Western World; an immense personality, -- unique, lovable, sublime; the peerless orator of all time, and as true a poet as Nature ever held in tender clasp upon her loving breast, and, in words coined for the chosen few, told of the joys and sorrows, hopes, dreams, and fears of universal life; a patriot whose golden words and deathless deeds were worthy of the Great Republic; a philanthropist, real and genuine; a philosopher whose central theme was human love, -- who placed 'the holy hearth of home' higher than the altar of any god; an iconoclast, a builder -- a reformer, perfectly poised, absolutely honest, and as fearless as truth itself -- the most aggressive and formidable foe of superstition -- the most valiant champion of reason -- Robert G. Ingersoll.

Flawless and faultless outcomes are not products of lawless and careless people. No lawless person is a genuine innovator. To your skillfulness, add good manners; to your willfulness, add carefulness!

Genuine faith will produce genuine changes in your life.

Genuinity is mother of stupidity.

Harnessing likability is about uncovering what is authentically likable—in you, in the other person, in your connection.

His chief form of entertainment was reading. The last moments he was in a cabin were usually spent scanning bookshelves and nightstands. The life inside a book always felt welcoming to Knight. It pressed no demands on him, while the world of actual human interactions was so complex. Conversations between people can move like tennis games, swift and unpredictable. There are constant subtle visual and verbal cues, there's innuendo, sarcasm, body language, tone. Everyone occasionally fumbles an encounter, a victim of social clumsiness. It's part of being human. To Knight, it all felt impossible. His engagement with the written word might have been the closest he could come to genuine human encounters. The stretch of days between thieving raids allowed him to tumble into the pages, and if he felt transported he could float in bookworld, undisturbed, for as long as he pleased.

Hugh paid no more attention to the farce than he had to the opera. He took every opportunity to study the young woman sitting beside him. She didn't hide her amusement at the production on stage, laughing at the pranks of the fool and clapping one hand to her mouth when the hero fell to his knee and proclaimed his love for the fainting maiden. Hugh sensed it was all genuine, as genuine as her nerves and her devotion to Willy and even her welcoming words to him this evening.

I do not much trust the man who cares solely to inspire - he does not really inspire me - only the man who cares mostly to tell the truth, whatever that may do. For when the man who cares to tell the truth happens to inspire, I, in addition, find it easier to believe that he in fact does his homework on how and when one should truly inspire.

I don't make people comfortable but that's what couches are for.

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.