Elbert Hubbard Quotes

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.

To be rather than to seem.

It's important for me to live my life honestly.

Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.

Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.

Nobody stays here by faking reality in any manner whatever.

Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.

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.

I've learned from her [ Oprah Winfrey] really how to stand in one's truth, how if you just simply are who you are, you know, you're heavy, you're thin, you're happy, you're sad - if you just speak your truth as it comes into your mind, then that's what people relate to.

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.

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.

Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.

Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.

I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.

In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?

Embrace the truth. Speak the truth. Be the truth. When we welcome the truth, we live our lives like it's golden.

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.

Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.

You have to be true, you have to be honest.. Don't do anything, just figure out what it is that is true to you, what makes you happiest to do and be out there. And if it doesn't work, then you just have to call it a day and go find something else. But don't make it up. Don't go out there and pretend to be something you aren't.

Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt -- the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it, not even Tobias. Maybe I should not be so afraid of saying anything, because honesty will make me feel lighter.

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

Lies kill love, it's been said. Well, what about frankness, then.