Genuine Quotes

Self-esteem should have nothing to do with what you look like – if you exude genuine confidence, people will be swept into it. You have to be able to hold yourself.

And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.

It's something that I've always loved to do and it's been such a genuine expression for me.

A world ought to have a few genuine good guys, and not just a spectrum of people running from bad to worse.

A rumor is like a check--never endorse it till you're sure it's genuine.

The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?

The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it.

Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre is a genuine project and a living proof of generosity of the people of Pakistan.

A genuine desire to be ONE enhances our lives with peace and power.

No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care.

It is to the press mankind are indebted for having dispelled the clouds which so long encompassed religion, for disclosing her genuine lustre, and disseminating her salutary doctrines.

Suddenly, the world is realizing that gold is still a safe haven asset. We've seen pretty substantial losses in equity markets. I think this is genuine safe-haven buying.

Be genuine. Just be yourself.

Italian authorities seized $6 trillion worth of fake, worthless U.S. Treasury bonds. Pretty good counterfeit job, too. They look just like the genuine, worthless Treasury bonds.

What you take to be hyprocrisy is sometimes a certain caution, sometimes genuine, though ponderous, childish, sometimes a mixture of both.

I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy.

Having a profile means you have to be cautious of who you let into your world, as you don't know if they're being genuine or not, but it's more that it can be a strain on your relationships.

I like to be in the now, now. Sometimes musicians have to wait for me to be genuine with it. As an actor, I don't have that luxury. You have to make it legit when they say 'action.'

I have a genuine belief in giving back to the community.

When you cry, you don't look very attractive; you look snotty and blotchy. People seem to manage to cry quite prettily these days, and to me, that smacks of not being very genuine.

Self-affirmation cannot be found in love; it is a prior condition of genuine love.

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

Judge [Samuel Alito], there's a genuine struggle going on well beyond you, well beyond the Congress, in America about how to read the Constitution.

I remember looking at books when I was in high school, but I don't think I really stood in front of a genuine painting or sculpture until I was out of high school.

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

Prayer doesn’t work in the way that you think. If you pray for good health and it is genuine, you might be coming into sickness. The essence of good health has to do with a most delicate well-being.

Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative.

Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.

States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It is this that makes genuine literature a vital force.

According to the Bible, a genuine answer to prayer is getting what you ask for.

State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development

How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place? I read his mind. I matched his DNA. I smelled him. I also did that.

Genuine thanksgiving is a response to both who God is and what He has done, is doing, and will do.

Those of us who are pro-life should demand more from Congress. While we waste time on stuff like this, genuine legislation to protect life is ignored.

I think Jon Foo and my chemistry is incredible! Foo is a genuine introvert and I'm a genuine extrovert. We're the perfect ying and yang, on and off camera.

Just as the Romans were the only nation that was truly a nation, so our age is the first genuine age.

The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare.

It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.

Sometimes it is hard to sing and dance at the same time but I would rather be off and be real and genuine about it to my fans.

People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.

In an environment in which tragedy is genuine and frequent, laughter is essential to sanity.

What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.

Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation.

Soups challenge us, because an enticing flavorful stew can be as different from the thin watery beverage sometimes erroneously called soup as a genuine green turtle is from the mock turtle.

The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.

Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny.