Kristy McNichol Quotes

I'm a bit too much of a people pleaser and that can be frustrating for people in your life.

I've always been afraid of saying no to people because I don't want them to be disappointed and dislike me.

I used to be a major people pleaser, but that way purgatory lies.

Actually, I've gotten myself into some difficult places because I thought I could fix somebody.

I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn't really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up.

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.

I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.

Being a nice girl from the Mid-West, my inclination is always to give in and say yes because I want people to like me.

As girls grow up and download what it means to be a culturally acceptable 'good girl,' they learn to please others at the expense of themselves. They worry about protecting relationships - and what people think of them - at all costs.

I haven't had a terrible relationship, but I've always been the type in a relationship to give too much and not speak out about problems I had or problems that were bothering me. I just wouldn't stand up for myself in any way if I was upset about something.

Despite fashioning myself a very unconventional lifestyle with my music, I had ended up in a really conventional situation. I was also guilty of becoming a people-pleaser, which is absolutely exhausting and not a sustainable way of living. It can be so damaging to fall into that trap, especially in close relationships.

I've always been a people pleaser.

I think we are all programmed to please as we grow up.

I'm a yes person. I'm too concerned with trying to make too many people happy.

Wanting to be liked means being a supporting character in your own life, using the cues of the actors around you to determine your next line rather than your own script. It means that your self-worth will always be tied to what someone else thinks about you, forever out of your control.

I find it hard to say no to people.

In high school, I tried very hard to make everybody like me, which resulted in me being extremely unhappy and in a lot of pain. Therefore, the lesson I got from that was that I can't make everybody happy.

I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn't look like it. But I have a tendency to a) be rubbish at saying no, and b) be pushed by some kind of Protestant work ethic.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

I was very keen. I was super-eager to please and be good. And I was always kind of bossy.

I've always been the kind of woman who had a man in her life even when he was the wrong man.

It is a challenge trying not to give in to pleasing other people.

If I've learned one thing from my mother, my teachers, my greatest female inspirations, it's that Boundaries Are Optional.

Being a good girl means suppressing a lot.

I can let people take advantage of me at times.