Being True to One's Values 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.

I like to be myself, and I don't pretend. For instance, I don't dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

Some people, they feel like they have to change and try to go out and do this or do things for the cameras. I'm myself at all times, whether I'm at a grocery store or I'm speaking to a school. I want to be as levelheaded and down to earth as possible, because that's who I am.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.

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've never tried to be something I'm not.

People who know me know that I'm not going to open my mouth and say something if I don't mean it. I'm very short and sweet. I'm old-school when it comes to it: I say what I mean and mean what I say, and then get off of it. It's simple as that.

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

I want to be myself. I want to be as authentic as possible.

I never regret or sit back and think that I shouldn't have said something. There are a lot of people who tell me that you shouldn't say this or that or should keep quiet, and I really think that I can either be true to my conscience or can live a fake life by staying quiet.

I'm just trying to be myself. I'm not trying to be anyone else.

Just because I'm quiet that doesn't mean I'm fake and artificial.

Behind the scenes, I'm not a politicker. I have a very hard time telling somebody they're right when I feel they're wrong, and I have a very hard time telling somebody they're good when I feel they're not. That's just me.

I don't try to represent myself in a way that's not connected with my everyday reality, because I'm not smart enough to do that.

I always have to just be myself. Anything else, I'm not happy, and it comes out musically.

I'm not going to present myself one way all the time just because it will make me sell best.

I have to be myself.

I hear a lot of girls say, 'I can be myself around you,' and I'm always thinking, 'Who are you when you're with somebody else?'

I can't put anything out that's not me.

Authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow everyone else the same courtesy.