Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Just stay real and stay a real person.

I don't have an image that I'm trying to, like, portray. I'm just being me.

It's wrong for a guy to have no personality, no heart. Because I don't care about style or money.

I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don't want that. I just want to be true. I want to be... I want to serve music. I want to be honest.

I've never been no superficial cat.

What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.

Billy Graham that the world saw on television or saw on the big screen was the same Billy Graham that we saw at home. He wasn't two people.

I'm not a persona, and I'm not a character. I'm always the same person.

I would describe myself as a very plain but very honest person.

I think that, in my research anyway, country music seems to be grounded in people staying true to their roots, being homegrown and being honest storytellers.

Life is too short to play-act if you don't have to.

Be you. If people like it, great. My music is honest, and it comes from the heart. I have never done anything to become famous.

I think who I am on the court is who I am in person.

A man should never pretend to be someone he's not to impress a woman. There is nothing sexier than an authentic man with integrity. Be who you are from the start. No games.

I have found for me, and it should be the same for everybody, that it is easiest just to be how you are. Be the true you and there is no need to act differently. It has always been like that.

Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

Being called a person, as such, indicates that one should only have one character and be true to it.

You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.

In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

I'm not like a persona. I'm not a caricature of myself.

Small towns seem to appreciate things a little bit more. They're less jaded and they're more kind of authentic and more themselves and they don't care as much.

I'm a big believer in playing truth and not doing things for effect. It's not about whether you look pretty or glamorous. It's about whether people connect.

A German writer observes: "The noblest characters only show themselves in their real light. All others act comedy with their fellow-men even unto the grave.