Nicolas Malebranche Quotes

Decide whether you want to be liked or admired.

I would prefer to be well-liked in any and all situations.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

I care what people who know me think of me.

For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.

I absolutely do care what people think about me.

Having the respect of your peers means the world to me.

You want to please society. You want to be happy. You want to be well liked. You want to be held in high esteem and be respected. These are real things. You want respect from your peers, respect from your loved ones; you want to be looked up to for your achievements and your accomplishments. All of this requires conformity in some form or another.

We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity, from such as are not personally acquainted with us. Merit secures to us the regard of our honest neighbors, and good fortune that of the public. Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success.

In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

He's liked, but he's not well liked.

I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any alterations of one's lifestyle? Or, more than that, the way that people regarded you? The way they reacted to you if you had a Sir in front of your name?

I've introduced myself with comedy, and once you've introduced yourself as something, that's where people keep you. That's where people like to hold you.

I hope that people like us next year like they liked us last year.

I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.

Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.

I care about public perception, yes. I don't care about my enemies' perception.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

It's all about impressing people.

I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.

Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well.

Everyone thinks I'm a nice guy, which is not a bad way to be perceived.

I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.