Charles Lamb Quotes

I want people to like me.

I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction.

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

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

Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.

Many people allow their need for other people's approval to control their lives. They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.

Decide whether you want to be liked or admired.

In society, we have to earn other things of import like trust, respect, money, education, careers, status and etc., so naturally, we find ourselves attempting to earn love, acceptance and validation along with that. Here's the trip: we do it at the cost of other people and, more importantly, ourselves.

What really matters to me is what my peers think.

Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.

I don't know if I've ever cared much what others think.

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.

I know I work quite hard at making people like me.

Most people care what people think about them... we all do.

Upon common theaters … the applause of the audience is of more importance to the actors than their own approbation. But upon the stage of life, while conscience claps, let the world hiss! …. If conscience disapproves, the loudest applause of the world are of little value.

Everybody wants to be loved by everybody, and they'll do everything they can to be loved, including not be who they really are, from person to person.

You don't realize you're vying for the approval of everyone so much until being yourself is not approved of.

I want to be liked; I just haven't lost sleep over it.

No man can honestly sit there and say he doesn't care about what people think, doesn't care if he's got the support of the British public or British fans.

The thing I believe is we are good if our peers think we're great. But we are great if the real world thinks we're good. And there's a huge difference.

I want every single person to like my work.

I'd wear nice clothes and brush my teeth more often if I cared about what people thought.