Maurice Chevalier Quotes

When we seek appreciation from others, we get not appreciation, but flattery.

I want every single person to like my work.

My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.

I want people to like me, and I care what they think.

I feel I have to earn everybody's respect.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I think there are certain people that you'll always want to impress no matter how much success you have.

I'm still at the age where I'm constantly seeking approval of people I have respect for.

I think that deep down all I have been looking for is to be accepted and liked by as many people as possible.

Everybody is so hungry for referrals, for 'likes.' I don't need to be liked. I don't need to be liked at all. I don't care if there's a button right there at the top of Drudge saying 'like' or 'dislike,' 'thumbs up,' 'thumbs down,' it doesn't mean anything.

Decide whether you want to be liked or admired.

It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.

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

I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me.

I need the applause.

As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.

The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster.

We are deeply conditioned against unconditionality because we've been told in a thousand different ways that accomplishment always precedes acceptance, that achievement always precedes approval.

I've always been looking for other people's approval.

There is no better feeling than having the approval and adulation of your fellow human beings.

The desire for attention has become a primal need along the lines of food, water, and clothing.

It's not that I need everybody to be patting me on the back.

I want to be liked... No, I want to be more than just liked... I want people to say, "that Charlie Brown is a great guy!" And when people are at parties, I want them to look for me, and when I finally arrive, I want them to say, "here comes good ol' Charlie Brown... Now everything will be all right!" I want to be a special person... I want to be needed... It's kind of hard to explain... Do you understand? I mean, do you know what I'm talking about?" "Sure, I understand perfectly..." "Well?" "Forget it! Five cents, please!

When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world.

Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.