Quotes About People-pleasing

I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.

Some of us are addicted to what others think.

You don't want to disappoint anybody, but you know, you lose your voice by trying to please everyone.

You combine insecurity and ambition, and you get an inability to say no to things.

Perceiving a choice between her feelings and her relationships, Dana chose to be liked by others. But the self she displayed was a mask of the person she though others wanted her to be. The Curse of the Good Girl obscured and shamed the most important parts of who she was.

I'm a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don't rage; I usually don't curse.

The desire to be nice to everyone and please everyone and the inability to firmly say no is what destroys believers most of all

your conversation consists mostly of descriptions of how busy you are. Suddenly you're a chilly mortal, going into hyper-people-pleasing mode anytime you're around your boss. You spend much of your time mentor shopping, trying to find some successful older person who will answer all your questions and solve all your problems.

When you engage in people pleasing you are out of integrity with yourself, your goals, your dreams and your life's mission.

I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.

A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him.

It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.

As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.

My eagerness to please sometimes gets the better of me.

Between 2008 and 2010 I exhausted myself because I wanted to please everyone.

For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.

I can't bear not to be liked, and I've always been a people pleaser.

I'm definitely a people pleaser. I like people to be happy around me and be comfortable. I go out of my way, sometimes to a fault, to make sure everyone is okay.

the two biggest hindrances to living the life God designed you to live: Wanting to be like others (envy), and wanting to be liked by others (people-pleasing.) These traps are subtle, but they distract and detour millions of people from the purposes they were created to fulfill.

A relationship based on people-pleasing is unbalanced and an unnecessary sacrifice of integrity, that will eventually break down.

Finally, being sensitive to the discomfort, disapproval, or anger of others probably made you quick to follow every rule as perfectly as possible, afraid to make a mistake.

Noah learned how to please everyone." Lila pierces me with a glare. "I learned there's no use trying to please anyone.

We struggle so much with wanting everybody to like us, we weaken ourselves at times.