Mark Manson Quotes

While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses.

I spent so long trying to be other people, and it made me really deeply unhappy.

I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.

I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn't really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up.

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.

Consider what people think of you, but don't be afraid of what people think of you.

I'd say for those people who don't feel like they fit in, I'd want them to ask themselves why they want to, who they are trying to please, and whether or not those people are worth it. You know what they say: 'If they don't want you, then they don't deserve to have you.'

I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.

I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.

Half of my anxiety is about whether people are going to like me.

Why should Bollywood accept me? I should accept Bollywood. I don't care if Bollywood has accepted me. I don't seek acceptance. I don't need to live up to anybody's expectations.

Being yourself, or being judged as yourself, is really scary.

I've never felt the need to show that I am either clever or tall because I'm not.

I remember being in high school and this guy saying to me, 'You'd actually be good-looking if you didn't joke around so much.' That affected me, and so I stopped joking around, and I stopped being a goof because I thought people would like me better.

For such a long time in my life, I didn't trust my own voice at all. I always tried to do what other people wanted.

Life becomes easier when we stop aping people. Which is on all fronts, be it looks, body shape, or anything.

Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

I care what people think, but that doesn't change what I say. I am who I am.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

I don't believe anyone wants to hear what I have to say.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

I quite like being who I am.

Being popular isn't everything; being true to yourself is!