Quotes About Likeability

I don't just want you to like me, I want to be one of the most joy-inducing human beings that you've ever encountered.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Some are in it for the money, which is fine. Some of them are in it to be a movie star; that's another reason. Some actors - and this I never understand - will only play likeable characters. And if they're not likeable, they change them to be heroic.

But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.

A magnificent cause can overcome a prickly personality, but your ability to enchant people increases if they like you, so you should aspire to both. You'll know that you're likeable when you can communicate freely, casually, and comfortably with people.

As a man gets more successful, powerful, he is more liked, and as a woman gets more successful, she is less liked, and that's true by both women and men.

If you try to come off as this big-time star with an attitude, people don't like that.

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The thing to remember about Obama is he doesn't care if you like him or I like him or somebody else does. He literally would rather do homework with his kids than be around other politicians. Does this make him unpopular at times? Yes. Does it make him ineffective? Most certainly not.

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

If you want to be liked, get a dog. The people you work with are not your friends.

If you have fun and keep a good attitude, people want to work with you.

For Schwab's personality, his charm, his ability to make people like him, were almost wholly responsible for his extraordinary success; and one of the most delightful factors in his personality was his captivating smile.

The bottom line is that you must become genuinely interested in others before you can ever expect anyone to be interested in you. "All things being equal," said author John Maxwell in a recent interview, "people do business with people they like.

My strength is my humility. When you are humble, people like you.

What does it say about your society that it admits only those who do not care very much to belong? For a start, it suggests that the English don't much care to be liked. They prefer the company of other misanthropes. Since no misanthrope worth the name would actually want to join a club, eager applicants must be snubbed.

I know I work quite hard at making people like me.

It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

The best of the best understand that people do business with people they like. People do business with people they trust, and people do business with those who make them feel special.

HIs great talent in life was to be a Good Bloke. He could walk into a room and sit down and everybody would be happy to have him, even if all he ever did was smile, for they imagined behind the mustache, behind the smile it hid, something sterner, more critical and yet, also, tolerant, so that when he smiled they felt themselves approved of and they vied with each other to like him best.

In terms of likeability, that's something that I don't think about as an actor when I approach a role.

I get why people didn't like me, or don't like me, because I have an arrogance.

Trying to find a human side to the character is a way to give them a chance to have people like them.

I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.