Mehmet Oz Quotes

I want to do good, and I want people to be happy, and sometimes when you're a people pleaser, you spread yourself too thin.

There's a fine line between helping others and being a people pleaser, and mistaking one for the other can be hugely detrimental. When we put others' needs before our own, we deplete our energy, which can lead to depression, physical illness, and overwhelm.

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me.

The hard thing for me is to say no to people.

I don't have to go around trying to save everybody anymore; that's not my job.

I found myself trying to be all things to all people. I felt a tremendous sense of responsibility and the pressure of expectation.

I'm tired of being the bad guy all the time, saying 'no' to people I like.

You can't be everything for another person.

I just...feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.

Women don't take care of themselves because they take care of everybody else.

I can't be all things to everyone.

We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

I'm not going to be everything to everyone.

If I'm within reach and can be helpful, I have a tendency to say 'Yes.' It's hard to say 'No.'

With my feelings, I hold a lot in, because I didn't always have boundaries and people would take advantage of situations because I'm a nice guy.

I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

You wanna be there for everybody, but it's just not possible.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

For now, for this year, I need to be a good mother.

If I can help one person, why wouldn't I?

I'm somebody who, if I went to the grocery store, and one of them wasn't with me, I would feel guilty. I would be like, 'I shouldn't be doing anything without them, anytime, ever.' A very codependent way of thinking. Also, motherhood is hugely about guilt.

I tend to be overly responsible for other people's feelings.

I hate disappointing people and letting people down.