Gretchen Bleiler Quotes

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in the end.

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

I guess I don't have the cut-throat ambition that some other actresses have. I don't know how good that is for my career, but I know how good that is for me as a person. And to me, that's much more important.

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

I don't care what people think about me. I care what people think about my work. As a young woman, I was so eager to please that I served others' happiness and even their values before my own.

Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.

You can't please everybody. All you can do is please yourself.

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.

Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.

And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.

Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.

I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.

I'm fine the way I am. There's nothing wrong with me.

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

We all have a finite amount of energy and time to give, and must figure out the best way to have an impact on the things that matter to us most - and it's okay that each one of us will do it differently.

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.

Some people are going to be happy with my decision, some people aren't... But I must live my life.

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

I have always done things that made me happy. I work with people I like, and I do the job I like. I only see people who I like to be with. I have led a wonderful life.

We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.