Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.

I've always been looking for other people's approval.

I want people to like me.

My entire life goal was to be accepted by everyone. I think that's what I wanted the most. I never got it.

I want people to like me, and I care what they think.

If you live for people’s acceptance you will die from their rejection.

How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!

There were people whom you positively ached to please. If you failed with such people they would put you into a category in their minds where they could kee you and have contempt for you forever.

How do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval?

Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin.

It's never bad to be liked, and who doesn't feel good being liked, but that can't be your end game goal.

I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

I try to please everyone.

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.

I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.

It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.

Whenever you are too worried about someone else's approval, that person loses respect for you.

People striving for approval from others become phony.

Remember that you cannot please everybody because you are likely to end up pleasing nobody.

If you run about trying to make people like you all the time you'd never get anything done.

I don't like courting controversy because I don't like people not liking me.

I think one thing I've learned over the years is just that you're not going to ever please everyone, and the most important person to please is yourself.

I won't please everybody every minute of the day.

You don't want to let people down, and that's so hard because you're never going to please everybody. There's always going to be someone that's a naysayer.

I just want to be agreeable; I want to be a pleaser. And that's all I want to do. I want to please the fans or the haters. One or the other.