Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

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

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered.

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.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

I'm a strange person - I don't really get rewards out of how many hits I have on YouTube. I love it, and I'm grateful, and it's important to me. But does it equal peace within me? No, it doesn't.

I just work - however people feel about it, I mean, at the end of the day, if I'm waiting for accolades, I could be waiting all my life, but I don't need that stuff to validate me. I just do what makes me happy.

Success isn't measured by the amount of people that watch you unless you allow it to be.

People have said to me, 'It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,' but I've never really cared about proving anything to anybody else.

I think ratings are something that shouldn't bother you. At the end of it, you should be happy with what you are doing.

..."And for God's sake, never get into the petty habit of measuring your self-worth against other people's net-worth. As Yogi Ramen preached: 'Every second you spend thinking about someone elses dreams you take time away from your own.'"

While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.

Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction.

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.

Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business.

There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.

I think the difference between being miserable and finding happiness is just a matter of perspective. If you live your life defining yourself by what other people think of you, it's a form of self-torture.

Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.

I think the thing that people do wrong today is that they pray for external validation.

A lot of people that I know are bugged with the idea that they have got to have an audience, or they have got to be liked. I think the more that you fall into that trap it makes your own life harder to come to terms with, because an audience appreciation is only going to be periodic at the best of times.

I think you have to satisfy yourself first and foremost.

Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life?

I don't spend my time perusing message boards to find out what people think about me or if people think my songs are good or if people love that lyric or this or that. I just want to be happy with it myself - and if other people like it, that's great.