Alice Cary Quotes

Most people love you for who you pretend to be.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

It doesn't matter whether you're the king of a country or... a fabulous Beatle; it's what's inside that counts.

I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am.

People will always show their true selves in the end.

We all have our ambassador that we send forward into the world. We all have people we are varying degrees of real with. There's a public face we all wear. As I get older and more comfortable in my skin, I am trying to combine the two so the real me is there all the time.

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

You are what you are, and I'd rather be myself than try and be what I'm not.

Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

We can never see who someone really is underneath the skin.

My livelihood depends on my surface beauty, but when I wash my face, I see a real person there.

Want is an empty void - your real value is full and abundant.

True worth is in being, not seeming- In doing, each day that goes by, Some little good, not in the dreaming Of great things to do by and by. For whatever men say in their blindness, And spite of the fancies of youth, There's nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth.

Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.

One's real worth is never a quantifiable thing.

If you have real, internal value, you don't need a loud, expensive imitation.

If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.

The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves.

In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of my success. All the rest is showiness, arrogance and conceit.

You can't really control how people are going to feel about you; all you can really do is be yourself. Because if you seduce somebody, and you seduce them by pretending to be a certain way, once they are seduced they are going to find that you are not that way. And then you have to maintain an image that's not real, so you really screw yourself. The best is to be yourself and hope they like you.

This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I...that was on inside of me and not play games.

Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.

When I write I am the real me.

That's a very important thing in life, to be really looked upon for the qualities which you hold in yourself and not all of superficiality.