Genuine Quotes

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

Advertising. I'd definitely like to try that. In fact, it was a genuine second choice career-wise. I'd be good at selling stuff - I've got the gift of the gab.

Genuine effort is success.

Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field.

The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.

The genuine Guru is God's representative and he speaks about God and nothing else.

Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment.

Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura.

I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.

For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.

Genuine sincerity opens people's hearts, while manipulation causes them to close.

Inner disarmament, external disarmament; these must go together, you see. Peace is not just mere absence of violence - genuine peace must start in each individual heart.

With genuine love and compassion, another person's appearance or behavior has no affect on your attitude.

In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves.

An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.

...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.

Christians are not perfect, and all of us do sin along the way. But genuine Christians hear His voice and follow Him.

There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to enlighten but to deceive and enrage.

The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.

If one... struggles for what is beyond the most proper, doing not in accordance with one's natural ability, acting not with one's genuine feeling, one will surely get into trouble.

Freedom which has genuine meaning is more than a timeless abstraction, more than an absence of restraints.

Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.

I'm seeing more and more books by celebrity authors, and I'm not happy to see them. I'd rather see publishing budgets devoted to genuine talents.

I am deeply romantic and a genuine yet complex person.

Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.

Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.

The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.

If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.

Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout.

Aside from mastery in the fine arts, success in learning anything is the result of genuine interest and amount of energy dedicated to it.

Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise

Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty.

Let the efforts of us all, prove that he [Martin Luther King] was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace being more precious than diamonds or silver or gold

Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.

There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.

Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

The wisest among us - the genuine leaders - smile in the face of adversity.

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognized for some time.

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway.

I don't know if any genuine meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla.

I'm a very humble person. I don't rub salt in people's wounds and I'm genuine.

There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at his ease.

Genuine rights don’t conflict—they enable us to live together without intractable conflicts.

Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth.