Need for Acceptance Quotes

What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.

If anything, I want to please people too much.

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

My sister was born a couple years after I was, and I realized that I wasn't getting enough attention, as much attention as I used to before she showed up, and then I learned pretty early on that if I could do a silly dance or make grown-ups laugh, then the attention would come back to me, and I would be accepted.

Whenever I've tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It's something I do automatically - I've learnt to immediately adapt.

It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

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

I really can't stand not to be loved. I really can't. If I walk into a room and feel there are people who don't really like me, I have to leave.

I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion. That reaches out to motherhood for completion.

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

A bedrock of insecurity made me want to impress and want to be the center of attention.

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

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

Adolescents show off. That's another way of wanting to connect with people. It's not an aspect of human behavior that we generally consider to be very admirable, but it is, in some way, a means of connecting with someone else and not being alone.

People striving for approval from others become phony.

I think I started out because I was desperate for approval and acceptance and praise. Some actors never break away from that. They're after that validation their whole life.

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

I can be such a people pleaser, and so worried about what people are thinking or feeling insecure.

I've always been looking for other people's approval.

I've always been a people pleaser.

I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.

I know it sounds really weedy, but we are all children who seek approval from our parents.

I've always wanted to be sure my parents approve of what I do.

I'm a very insecure and emotional person still looking to be loved by everyone else.