Being Liked Quotes

Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay.

I'm no different to anyone else; I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me.

I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.

As a leader, you need to care deeply, deeply about your people while not worrying or really even caring about what they think about you. Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin.

Like any other all-American boy, I wanted to be just thought of as popular, be well-liked, and meet a lot of cute girls.

Everyone wants to be loved and liked - but you can't be as a manager.

I like being liked, who doesn’t? But I love being hated.

The thing you want to be able to do is to be well-liked when you retire. I know right now I'm not close to retiring, and I'm not close to being liked.

You'll never change the world if you're worried about being liked.

I was a weirdo. I think I wanted to be liked, but I didn't have the attention or bother to actually make an effort to be. I also think I had a different perception of what I needed to do to be liked.

It's fun to be liked, but when standing up for what you believe in, it's also very fun not to be liked.

A lot of the stuff I have done had been not only the likable guy, but like the nice likable guy.

I feel much better being in a heel role. I'm not very good at coming out smiling and acting like a good girl. It's harder to get fans to like you when you're trying to be nice.

It's never bad to be liked, and who doesn't feel good being liked, but that can't be your end game goal.

I wish I had known that it's OK to stand up for myself. That it's also OK to not be liked but to be respected, and I always want to be liked.

It would be nice to be a piece of toast. Everyone likes a piece of toast, don't they? No one is ever sad when you offer them a piece of toast, and if I could be that to someone, that would be nice.

I want to be liked... No, I want to be more than just liked... I want people to say, "that Charlie Brown is a great guy!" And when people are at parties, I want them to look for me, and when I finally arrive, I want them to say, "here comes good ol' Charlie Brown... Now everything will be all right!" I want to be a special person... I want to be needed... It's kind of hard to explain... Do you understand? I mean, do you know what I'm talking about?" "Sure, I understand perfectly..." "Well?" "Forget it! Five cents, please!

But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.

Worry about being respected, never worry about being liked because that's the trap.

If you enjoy yourself, then people will enjoy you.

As a comedian, you want people to like you. That's part of why you're there in the first place: You have this unquenchable need to be liked, and then when you divert from that and take a chance at doing something that has moments of fierce unlikeability, you can hit some real low points.

Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great. To many people, being nice in order to be liked is more important. There's equal merit in that, but you must not confuse being good with being liked.

Everyone for the most part is really nice. There have always been jokes, but that's part of being in the spotlight. You can't make everyone completely happy.

I've always tried to be nice to people, so that sort of translates into popularity, I guess.

I think anybody who says they don't care about being liked is lying. I care if my dog waves its tail when I come home. But you're not going to make everybody happy.