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Top 157 Genuine Quotes in 2020

By: Quotes Guru | Last Updated: June 20, 2020

“I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.”

― Aaron Rodgers

“There is nothing like Southern hospitality. It’s such a beautiful and genuine thing.”

― Abigail Spencer

“The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains.”

― Al Gore

“I have always believed that genuine democracy is fairness.”

― Alexander Lukashenko

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

― Alice Miller

“We all lose when bullying and personal attacks become a substitute for genuine conversation and principled disagreement.”

― Alicia Garza

“I come from an academic background, and I have a genuine interest in social change.”

― Amanda Seales

“The characters in ‘Be Near Me’ come from a genuine place, a Britain that is more than one country and more than one ideal.”

― Andrew O’Hagan

“Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.”

― Andrew Weil

“I really wanted to write a song like Eric Clapton’s ‘Wonderful Tonight.’ It’s just such a sweet sentiment. It’s so simple but so genuine.”

― Andy Grammer

“A hard-hitting investigative report that uncovers a nugget of genuine truth is the ultimate viral hit.”

― Annalee Newitz

“Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses… The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.”

― Archibald Cox

“Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.”

― Armstrong Williams

“Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each.”

― Arthur Peacocke

“Pakistan has assured that it would not allow its territory to be used against India for any acts of terror. India must also reciprocate and address our concerns which are very genuine. Dialogue is the only way forward. Absence of dialogue leads to tension.”

― Asif Ali Zardari

“Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.”

― Austin O’Malley

“I speak plainly, I don’t beat around the bush, and I’m just genuine.”

― Ben Askren

“Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.”

― Billy Graham

“My confidence wavers between being genuine and being insecure.”

― Bob Saget

“To make a genuine record, it takes more than a cool beat and some auto tune.”

― Borns

“Curiosity is the process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.”

― Brian Grazer

“We started making content because we wanted to see it, and so our content ended up being genuine.”

― Burnie Burns

“I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.”

― Cesar Romero

“I never want to be one of those artists who feels untouchable and extraordinary. I have to be genuine.”

― Clairo

“I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.”

― Clifton Fadiman

“The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.”

― Corliss Lamont

“If an essay has a ‘motive,’ it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay is not a doctrinaire tract or a propaganda effort or a broadside.”

― Cynthia Ozick

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

― Dag Hammarskjold

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

― Dante Hall

“For the charities, their relationships with celebrity supporters should be as deep and purposeful as the ones they have with any of their supporters and volunteers, based on a genuine understanding of the issues they’re tackling.”

― David Harewood

“Edam and Gouda are genuine Dutch cheeses, but the real thing is a lot less bland than the varieties most of us experience in the U.K.”

― David Hewson

“It’s a genuine dilemma for governments, deciding how much information to share in this threat-filled era.”

― David Ignatius

“Failure is authentic, and because it’s authentic, it’s real and genuine, and because of that, it’s a pure state of being.”

― Douglas Coupland

“The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.”

― E. M. Forster

“The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.”

― Edward Levi

“I am genuine, fun and passionate.”

― Erin Heatherton

“Yes, I’m known as America’s most genuine comedian.”

― Eugene Mirman

“The sense of jubilee for music and what we’re making is always genuine.”

― Florence Welch

“Moreover the incorporation requires the same components needed for protein synthesis, and is inhibited by the same inhibitors. Thus the system is most unlikely to be a complete artefact and is very probably closely related to genuine protein synthesis.”

― Francis Crick

“The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein… scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.”

― Frederick Pollock

“You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence – that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.”

― Gene Wolfe

“The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.”

― Georg Simmel

“Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.”

― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

― George Henry Lewes

“I want to see genuine talent rewarded.”

― George Osborne

“I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.”

― Gottfried Leibniz

“I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.”

― Gottfried Leibniz

“Since I came out of the closet, I’ve gotten to just really be myself and feel authentic and honest and genuine. It’s just been a huge relief for me competitively.”

― Gus Kenworthy

“Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.”

― H. P. Lovecraft

“The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.”

― Hal Sparks

“Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.”

― Hans Jonas

“A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.”

― Harold S. Geneen

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

― Honore de Balzac

“If a guy is just genuine and honest, girls gravitate towards that, and girls love it when you open up.”

― Iliza Shlesinger

“I always seek one quality in my friends – that they should be genuine.”

― Jacqueline Fernandez

“I’m at my best when I’m being genuine and sincere, and reading my material straight up to an audience that wants to listen.”

― James Bernard Frost

“A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.”

― James E. Faust

“If someone is genuine, compassionate and kind, that is a turn-on. A sense of humor is a huge turn on, and that goes hand in hand with intelligence.”

― Jennifer Nettles

“Women’s sport is genuine, it’s pure and it’s raw… we don’t do it for the money.”

― Jessica Fox

“I am deeply romantic and a genuine yet complex person.”

― Jiah Khan

“I do want love. Genuine love.”

― Jill Scott

“I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.”

― Jim Harrison

“I’m so genuine about what I do and how I want to do it, and I get anxiety when I’m pressured from the outside.”

― Jimmy John Liautaud

“The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.”

― John Dewey

“I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.”

― John Lydon

“Obama learned from Ronald Reagan that it helps to strike an optimistic tone. But genuine optimism deriving from American exceptionalism, it turns out, does not come naturally to him.”

― John Podhoretz

“The music is really about sharing an experience. That’s why we call it Stay Human. It’s like we’re sharing this genuine human exchange.”

― Jon Batiste

“A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.”

― Jose Marti

“The Paris climate agreement may be a harbinger of the spirit and mindset needed to sustain genuine global cooperation.”

― Joseph Stiglitz

“You might not get it right all the time, but you have to be genuine in your intent.”

― Judith McKenna

“Well they’re very, very genuine concerns at present as to the status of the 800 people who are to be sent by Australia to Malaysia. There’s concern about the status of asylum seekers in Malaysia generally, but there’s concern about the status of the 800 to be sent.”

― Julie Bishop

“There are genuine concerns about the status of children to be sent to Malaysia and also there are genuine concerns about the human rights record in Malaysia.”

― Julie Bishop

“There is a very genuine belief that without diversity of thought, companies can’t innovate.”

― Julie Sweet

“The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.”

― Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain – no matter what – after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.”

― Kate Chopin

“I’m genuine, and I think people can see that when they watch.”

― Kevin Owens

“Salman was an amazing human being. There are lot of things about him for years, but he’s one of the most genuine, helpful guys out there. There’s Salman Khan the superhero, and there’s that gentle guy who pulls out a charcoal pencil and comes up with some soulful, pure art pieces.”

― Kubra Sait

“I wanted to be as genuine as possible because all those people like Jimmie Lee Jackson – me, Mike Brown, all these people – we’re all the same; we’re not much different.”

― Lakeith Stanfield

“Kids can tell if you’re being genuine or not.”

― Lauv

“I want to be a genuine artist who has a say in what I do.”

― Leah LaBelle

“There’s things you can say about me, but here’s what you can’t say about me: that I’m not being genuine.”

― Leah Remini

“In my case what happened next in 1999 was that I fell apart over that back nine. When I saw I was in genuine contention that year I felt like throwing up. That remains probably the most nervous I’ve ever been on a golf course.”

― Lee Westwood

“I’m not handled. I’m not crafted by slick, high-priced consultants. I’m a real person, a genuine person, a struggling person in Connecticut.”

― Lee Whitnum

“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.”

― Leon Wieseltier

“My love for the female hip hop movement has always been genuine.”

― Lil’ Kim

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

― Lincoln Child

“My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.”

― Lloyd Alexander

“Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

― Lloyd Banks

“We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine.”

― Lucinda Williams

“The love of one’s own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.”

― Maria Mitchell

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

― Marian Wright Edelman

“The most influential people strive for genuine buy-in and commitment – they don’t rely on compliance techniques that only secure short-term persuasion.”

― Mark Goulston

“All emotion is involuntary when genuine.”

― Mark Twain

“Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.”

― Mark Udall

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

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“He showed in the last interview, as on the later portions of the chart, a genuine fondness for the rabbit.”

― Mary C. Jones

“It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.”

― Max Weber

“Self-righteousness, when you think about it, is a contra-indicator of self-esteem. It’s what sets in when genuine righteousness eludes us.”

― Meghan Daum

“In the world, there are countless Sadhus, Mahatmas, Mahapurushas, Saints, Yogis, and Walis, though the number of genuine ones is very, very limited. I am neither a Mahatma nor a Mahapurush, neither a Sadhu nor a Saint, neither a Yogi nor a Wali. I am the ancient One. The Highest of the High!”

― Meher Baba

“One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them. They did it out of genuine interest but today’s kids are much more materialistic and there’s a danger, I suppose, that they might just be out to make dosh.”

― Michael Aspel

“The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.”

― Michael Heizer

“The people in Indiana are so kind and so genuine.”

― Michael Horse

“I’ve read that Steven Wright’s style was born out of genuine nervousness.”

― Mike Birbiglia

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

― Mustafa Akyol

“The majority of autists – as well as their parents – seem to be genuine victims of environmental stress.”

― Nikolaas Tinbergen

“Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.”

― Noah Baumbach

“My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.”

― Norman Granz

“A lot of times when people get copied, they get copied and washed out. But you can’t even duplicate how we do it because it’s just so genuine. It’s just us.”

― Offset

“We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment.”

― Olusegun Obasanjo

“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.”

― Oscar Wilde

“I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I’m on stage they’re not privileged to see me. It’s a privilege for me to see them.”

― Ozzy Osbourne

“I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine – you mourn things that actually happened.”

― Pete Hamill

“The entertainment industry is loaded with extraordinarily talented people. But the true, genuine originals, they’re rare.”

― Peter Falk

“A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.”

― Pope Francis

“My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.”

― Prince William

“There are no shortcuts to genuine friendship. Relationships are built over time.”

― Rachel Simmons

“My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for ‘integrity’ in the dictionary. ‘Truthful’ doesn’t really cover it, or ‘genuine.’ It should be like ‘integritus.’”

― Rashida Jones

“Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.”

― Rene Descartes

“I’m one of the happiest people I know. I truly am. And it’s genuine.”

― Rita Moreno

“With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday.”

― Robert Powell

“My genuine passion for dance was born watching Ballet Rambert perform Christopher Bruce’s harrowing ‘Ghost Dances.’”

― Robert Rinder

“Europe certainly needs a genuine conservative movement to combat the creeping bureaucratic collectivism that is stifling the human potential of the Continent.”

― Robert Zubrin

“But communication is two-sided – vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it… demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.”

― Roger Sessions

“I’m genuine and people can believe what I say.”

― Romario

“One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from them. I figured, why? I mean, it’s genuine depraved partisan politics insanity, genuine extremist radical ignoramuses on that network.”

― Rush Limbaugh

“I’m not trying to make beats that are better than somebody else’s. I’m trying to make beats that are genuine to me.”

― Ryan Lewis

“I think there’s a genuine difference between the real and the virtual in music.”

― Ryuichi Sakamoto

“I generally make a point to finish my shot in the initial couple of takes with the goal that the execution would be genuine, and it naturally makes a great deal of strain.”

― Sai Pallavi

“Sending genuine refugees to face persecution in order to dissuade others from seeking to come here is plainly illegal.”

― Sajid Javid

“The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.”

― Samuel Smiles

“There are certain players, certain leaders where, genuine and authentic, their message is going to resonate different than a coach.”

― Sean McVay

“Playing piano and singing whatever comes naturally is the best thing for me – the only thing that feels genuine.”

― Sigrid

“Women empowerment is, after all, a dream, a vision of Rajivji. It is a genuine vision. We now have so many women in Panchayats.”

― Sonia Gandhi

“The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.”

― Stephen Cole Kleene

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”

― T. S. Eliot

“Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the ’70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.”

― Tariq Ali

“I barely remembered my father; I’m confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived.”

― Tom Stoppard

“In most cases, the only genuine victims of the ‘safe places’ demands for censorship are conservative student groups and their invited guest speakers.”

― Tom Tancredo

“Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive.”

― Toomas Hendrik Ilves

“People have actually figured out that Estonia is one of the few post-Communist countries that has a genuine image in people’s minds as being something.”

― Toomas Hendrik Ilves

“I’m a guy that appreciates spontaneity and a woman being genuine and different.”

― Trey Songz

“I’m a genuine lover of music. I’ve always watched the Grammys from home.”

― Tyler Oakley

“Mr. Obama’s call to support genuine democracy has implications for the kinds of elections the international community promotes and endorses.”

― Tzipi Livni

“So many times, genuine health workers and genuine NGO folks are really just trying to help other humans in whatever capacity they can. But they are perceived as being CIA, and therefore, it blocks their effectiveness.”

― Valerie Plame

“My father is genuine and frank. I don’t have to say that, because everybody knows it.”

― Varun Tej

“Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.”

― Vera Farmiga

“I want to be a genuine allrounder.”

― Vijay Shankar

“Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.”

― Walter Benjamin

“I’ve come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.”

― Walter Kirn

“Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It’s not supposed to be make-believe or I’m making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.”

― Wayne Wonder

“Russia has demonstrated it is not committed to genuine partnership with the United States.”

― Will Hurd

“To diminish the cases in which the assistance of others is felt absolutely necessary is the only genuine road to independence.”

― William Godwin

“Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy.”

― William Greider

“What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!”

― William James

“Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.”

― William Throsby Bridges

“I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.”

― William Vickrey

“There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.”

― William Vickrey

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