Quotes About Likability

If you want to be a leader whom people follow with absolute conviction, you have to be a likable leader. Tyrants and curmudgeons with brilliant vision can command a reluctant following for a time, but it never lasts. They burn people out before they ever get to see what anyone is truly capable of.

Jezal had often observed that the ever so slightly stupid will act more stupidly in clever company. Having lost the high ground already, they scramble eagerly for the position of likable idiot, stay out of arguments they will only lose, and hence be everyone's friend,

I just want everyone to like me. That's my main flaw.

I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.

I mean, that's kind of what this business is about in some ways. You're trying to make everybody like you. But you can't do that. You can't force everybody - anybody to like you if they're just not willing to do it.

It is ironic that losing makes you more liked than winning.

And at fifty, Less muses drowsily, you're as likable as you're going to get.

It's pretty rare to find someone you actually like to be with in this world. There are a lot of annoying people out there.

I didn't intend to say something unkind. I meant only that you are good at making yourself liked. The difference between you and me, always, has been that people are afraid of me and not of you.

A person who is really CHEAP is liked usually by many openly and one who is truly CHIEF is liked hardly by any publicly.

If you can be yourself and people like you, you're golden.

Ultimately, all the fans hope for is that their team wins and that the players give their all. So if you work hard, leave everything out on the pitch and achieve good results, then these are all of the necessary ingredients to make sure you are liked.

A lot of teenagers today are influenced by the media's depiction of perfection. I want readers to understand they don't have to follow the unofficial laws society creates, to be liked by others.

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.

But of course Anton turned out to be brave and strong, and so he died while he was still unlikable.

Regis has a great rapport with the American public.

I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare.

You're grateful and appreciative that people liked you and remember you.

'Friends' started because Rachel left her husband at the altar. This likability factor is just so stupid to me. It's the same thing as 'wish-fulfillment,' which is a big word you hear in a lot of Hollywood rooms. It basically means that people want to see other people living a life they can't lead, and I don't buy that. I think that's not true.

You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.

I don't have any control of how I am received. People will either like me, not like me or love to not like me.

Aside from the likability factor, I can criticize Hillary's politics all day long, but I never question her intelligence. I have never doubted that she is a strong, capable, smart leader.

she was generally considered to be a pretty woman; and, since she was as good-natured as she was foolish, she was almost universally liked.

It is fun to play someone who likes everyone and is liked by most people, or is at least tolerated.