Authenticity Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in a large sense, is never successful. In the life of the individual, as…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

The literary world is so full of pretension, and there's such an enormous gap between how seriously poets take themselves and how widely they're…

— Billy Collins

The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.

— Marcel Proust

By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every…

— John Calvin

No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.

— Samuel Johnson

We are presumptuous not when we marvel at His grace, but when we reject it.

— Max Lucado

“Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined, or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the…

— Jeff Olson

Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth…

— Lord Acton

“The whole struggle was over, and yet there seemed to have been no moment of victory. You might say, if you liked, that the…

— C.S. Lewis

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition…

— Seneca the Younger

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

— Wendell Phillips

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And…

— Frank Herbert