Ricky Gervais Quotes

You can't worry about pleasing other people; you have to please yourself.

You cannot please everyone, and I think that what's important, ultimately, is to make sure you please yourself. If you start trying to please other people, you'll just go around in circles.

With my designs and my ideas, I want to please myself first.

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

I always felt more comfortable doing what I wanted to do. Because at the end of the day, I'll be happy.

To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.

Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself; and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense.

Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving. Who wanted only to belong to herself.

I can't please everybody and I don't try to. If I can please myself that's enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.

But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.

Whereas before I was a young, blonde girl who would do what she was told. I know who I am as a person and I'm getting damn strong.

My hands are small, but they're not yours, they are my own... I am never broken.

You don't have to see through the eyes of others, hold onto yours, stand on your own judgment, you know that what is, is–say it aloud, like the holiest of prayers, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

And there is something great about knowing that my only job is to be as happy as I can be about my life, and feel as good as I can about myself, and to lead as full and eventful a life as I can, so that it doesn’t ever feel like I’m just waiting around for some guy to ask me out. And most importantly, it’s good for us all to remember that we don’t need to scheme and plot and beg to get someone to ask us out. We’re fantastic.

Be independent of the good opinion of other people.

Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.

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

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.

At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone.

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

I care less if I can't be part of your scene because I am the scene. I am everything that is.