Dylan Moran Quotes

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

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

I don't expect everybody to like me. If you try to please everybody, by changing your position and your personality, every time you do that you lose a little bit of yourself.

Don't change for nobody.

You've got to hang on to who you are, what you are. Don't let anyone take it from you.

I don't care what people think about me. I care what people think about my work. As a young woman, I was so eager to please that I served others' happiness and even their values before my own.

You can't please everybody. All you can do is please yourself.

It's easy to be a people-pleaser, but that's not what makes me happy.

My lesson would be to not sell yourself to anybody else and stay true to yourself.

I'm me. I can't put on airs. I'm not a phony. I know the way I am hurts me more times than it helps. But somehow it's all tied up with my integrity, and my integrity is the last thing I'm going to let you take from me.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.

Once you sell yourself, it's over. You've got nothing left.

The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

I'm not impersonating anybody. I'm perfectly satisfied with what I am.

You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in the end.

You have to keep a strong sense of who you really are - and I have a pretty strong sense of myself. It gets me in trouble when I say this, but I don't think of myself as a politician. I've always tried to be honest when communicating with people.

Very often, people are obsessed with what others think of them. It's like if a flower wants to be a cactus or a palm but it's not. A flower is a flower, and that's enough. That's all you have to do is be a flower.

No, I am who I am. I'm not going to change for anybody.

This is the kind of world I was born in, one in which I had only one reason for existence: pleasing others.

I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.