Craig Newmark Quotes

What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.

It was kind of a hard lesson when I figured out that not everybody is going to be kind, be sweet. So I've learned that I am never going to make everybody happy. There's always going to be someone who can't stand the way I write, and I can't take that personally.

I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.

In high school, I tried very hard to make everybody like me, which resulted in me being extremely unhappy and in a lot of pain. Therefore, the lesson I got from that was that I can't make everybody happy.

If a person doesn't like me or doesn't like my game, OK, that's how they feel. Can't be upset with it.

I have so much self-acceptance.

I won't please everybody every minute of the day.

My momma told me a long time ago, 'not everybody has to like you.' And it's very true. I'm ok with that.

I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

If you don't embrace who you are and accept who you are, you won't be able to live a happy life.

If you're not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it's hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that's really not an ingredient for a happy life.

You do the best you can.

You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.

For me, when I go to bed at night, I am happy that I haven't hurt someone. And if I think I have, I will rectify it. I now refuse to give someone permission to make me feel bad about myself. They can't make me feel bad about myself if I don't allow it.

Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself.

Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.

What's important is self-appreciation.

I just have to be myself. I'm not perfect, and I'm going to make mistakes; I might say the wrong thing. I have to be responsible to my community, and I feel like I am, but then I have to not be so hard on myself.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.

I am certainly not perfect. I don't think you should try to be perfect for anyone. When you come to terms with that, then you're OK.

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.

I have spent far too many years trying to make everybody like me. It's not possible. People can say or think what they want.

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

Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.