Alan Cohen Quotes

It's very important to be as transparent, as real as possible, as a person.

It is better to be silent and be real than to talk and not be real.

With trees and rocks and the sea and the stars and the clouds and the sun - you cannot be unreal, you cannot be phoney. You HAVE to be real because when you are encountering nature, nature creates something in you which is natural. Responding to nature continuously, you become natural.

Just be honest with who you are. Don't pretend to be something you're not. Don't be a phony. Walk your talk. That's how God works, so doing it is emulating how Source works.

I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing.

I try not to fake anything.

Sincerity is the way to heaven.

Truth Alone Triumphs

Everybody can relate to being real or true. Somehow, someway, you want to be real and true.

The one thing I've always tried to do in my life, in my work, on TV, is I just keep it real. I find it hard and time-consuming to try to be fake.

I don't want to try to sell myself or portray something that I'm not.

I'm not going to pretend to be anything I'm not.

I'll never pretend to be I'm something I'm not.

I don't want to try to fool people into thinking that I'm something that I'm not.

I will not pretend to be something that I'm not. I certainly won't do it to win the audience over.

Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.

Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.

Truthfulness is the real mark of integrity.

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart - it's all a person has.

What we want is to be real. Let us not appear to be more than we are. Don't let us put on any cant, any assumed humility, but let us be real; that is the delight of God. God wants us to be real men and women, and if we profess to be what we are not, God knows all about us. God hates sham.

A good heart cannot lye

When you're being real, that's endearing to an audience. When you're not being real and you're making jumps to things that don't really follow how they would in reality, people don't appreciate that.

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.