The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future.
If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important - and you do that by being genuine and humble.
You'll never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking what sort of impression you make.
The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
I don't stage my own publicity.
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.
Be as you wish to seem.
When you're not hiding anything, it's just very easy to be yourself - shockingly.
I don't do things to try and get publicity or anything like that.
I now have faith in those who say they represent a faith. Whereas before I was like, 'Do not give me a lecture on how to live my life when I know I'm a pretty decent human being. I might not go to church every day, but I know I do the right thing or try to. You're going to church and you're still sleeping around on your wife and spending everyone's money. How are you better than I am?' So I've finally met people that walk the walk and it's made me happy, really happy.
I am startled when people are themselves and are not my thoughts of them.
Walk it how I talk it, so I talk it how I live it.
If you start out saying you want to be cool, you won't be cool.
I judge a man by the way he treats people who don't count. Woody Hayes was nice to a lot of people he couldn't ever use.
Kids can tell if you're being genuine or not.
I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
Youre only yourself when no ones watching!
Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions.
I don't think telling the truth ever gets anyone in trouble in the long run. Maybe the day after, but not in the long run.
Everybody talks about being a role model. But if you look up the word 'role' in a dictionary, it describes playing a part. Everything I'm into, it's real to me. There's nothing fake about it.
I'm just being who I am and expressing myself as everyone else does.
The true athlete should have character, not be a character
The most important thing is what you already do. It's being authentic. It's being curious, trying to discover gifts.
The key is to be honest. Be honest, but don't play yourself.
And then certainly, whatsoever you do - your character, your behaviour - is yours, authentically yours. It has your signature on it. Then you are not a carbon copy, you are original. The Zen people call it finding the original face.
