Charles Studd Quotes

I don't want my reasons to be informed by what people think about what I'm doing.

People always clap for the wrong reasons.

You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.

If it is something that is right for human beings, then I don't care if other people criticize. You cannot please everyone in the world.

If you spend too much time worrying about how other people perceive you, you'll never break the rules.

Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my lifewas the day I realized that I know longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That's enormously liberating and freeing, and it's the only way to live your life and do your business.

You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they'll say about you in the future.

Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes you can feel the pull of what other people want from you, and you sacrifice yourself, you risk seeming odd or sunsavory, to keep them entertained.

People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world...But you have to do what's right for you.

All I can do is just do what I can do and not be hampered by knowing that some people won't like it.

When we started the show, there were mixed responses. Half of the people said, 'That show doesn't have a chance.' The other half said, 'That show doesn't have a prayer.'

You have to be prepared for people to hate you. Average people love to be average, because nobody bothers them.

At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it.

... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!

It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people

What other people think is their problem.

People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.

We can't live other people's lives for them. Even if we love them.

Tend to choose what is popular over what is right when they are in conflict. They desire to fit in both at church and outside of church; they care more about what people think of their actions (like church attendance and giving) than what God thinks of their hearts and lives.

I don't read reviews, and I don't include the press as part of my priorities or as part of the world that has any validity to what's really important to me.

Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

If people don't like what I'm doing I really don't have time to hear it. I'm doing something good with my life and I challenge them to do the same.

You can't please everyone. Just because I don't behave a certain way, some folks will say you don't have any street cred. I've pretty much had to put up with that since I was a little kid, just because I was raised to communicate in a certain fashion. Some people didn't like it.

The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that very few people can afford it.