Bill Cosby Quotes

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

You don't want to disappoint anybody, but you know, you lose your voice by trying to please everyone.

If you go about trying to please everyone, there's going to be endless struggles.

Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.

As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.

I did everything I could to establish myself, but it just didn't work that way. I'm not angry about that.

All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning.

While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses.

Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.

I kept trying, proposing, pushing... If you want to succeed, you cannot leave work half done, and unfortunately, many things were left half done. The choice was made not to launch a second wave of economic reforms that I was proposing.

When you make something that you're really proud of, and it doesn't do well, you can live with it. The hard part is when you make something that you have to compromise on and it doesn't do well.

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.

You can lose who you are so easily when you're being so many things to so many different people.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster.

You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

I try to please everyone.

No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.

I feel like 'Just.me' is not successful, but it is not a failure.

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.

You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.

Despite the successes, you remember the failures - rather lovingly.

A lot of people don't realize it, but I've a lot less success than I've have had success.