Genuine Quotes

• Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Mother, Thinking

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.22, New World Library

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• Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.

  Terry Eagleton

  Mean, Different, Needs

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• A man can be beautiful physically, mentally, or personality wise. True beauty, though, is in the spirit. A genuine man who understands right and wrong, with a strong sense of self is beautiful. A man who can be compassionate and caring, but firm and wise. Someone who can do the right thing no matter who's around to see it. Even if the deed is unseen and unrecognized. That is a beautiful man. One today is worth two tomorrows.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Beautiful, Wise, Strong

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• A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  An address at the Episcopal National Cathedral, Washington D.C, March 31, 1968.

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• Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspiring, Meditation, Quiet

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.61, Beacon Press

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• Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Peace, Life And Love, Work

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8192, Delphi Classics

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• Genuine happiness is hard to miss.

  Melanie Iglesias

  Missing, Genuine Happiness, Hard

  "Melanie Iglesias: The Practice of Happiness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The time is always right to do what is right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  "This Dallas Boy's MLK Jr. Speech Is Such A Sweet Message For Today's World" by Sarah Friedmann, www.bustle.com. January 2018.

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• There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.

  Po Bronson

  Positive, Inspiring, Spiritual

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• Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

  T. S. Eliot

  Communication, Writing, Poetry

  1929 Dante.

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• The greater your cares, the more genuine your prayers

  Max Lucado

  Prayer, Care, Greater

  Max Lucado (2006). “Grace for the Moment Daily Bible-NCV”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Anorexia, Eating Disorder, Apathy

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

  Amelia Earhart

  Appreciation, Women, Home

  "Soaring Wings : A Biography of Amelia Earhart". Book by George Palmer Putnam, 1939.

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• Living
  consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and
  responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the
  moment.

  Sidney Poitier

  Honesty, African American, Live In The Moment

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• Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.

  Bell Hooks

  Dream, Real, Commitment

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• To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Graduation, Honesty

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• It's a weak faith that only serves God in times of blessing. The book of Job teaches us that true faith, genuine faith, great faith is revealed only when we serve and trust God in the hard times, the times of suffering, loss, and opposition. That's the kind of faith that makes the world sit up and take notice.

  Ray Stedman

  Jobs, Book, Loss

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• Our obligation to others and a gift to ourselves is to acknowledge and authentically express genuine appreciation for courtesies, caring and concern others have given us.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Caring

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• The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Truth

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny, Money, Tired

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “Poor Relations: Cousin Betty and Cousin Pons”, p.772, The Floating Press

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• Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.

  Timothy Zahn

  Heart, Individuality, Spirit

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

  George Henry Lewes

  Moved

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

  Alice Miller

  Forgiveness, Anger, Doe

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.248, Macmillan

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• I love my relationship with Coach Vermeil because it is one of the few genuine relationships that I have.

  Dante Hall

  Coaches

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• I think of shock as kind of an uptown form of surprise. Comedy is filled with surprise, so when I cross a line... I like to find out where the line might be and then cross it deliberately, and then make the audience happy about crossing the line with me.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Crossing The Line, Uptown

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