Top 100 Be Liked Quotes
#1. I don't like happy people," Andrew said. "They're already happy; they don't need to be liked." "Wow, so selfless," Mark said. "You're a saint. I commend your selflessness. Amazing.
Tao Lin
#2. Yes, Ron had always respected Connie, even though he suspected the feeling was not mutual. That doesn't concern him especially. He doesn't need to be liked. A lot of people don't like him. It is their problem. Not his.
Liane Moriarty
#3. How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
Charles Lamb
#4. People never outgrow wanting to be liked for being who they truly are, especially when they've grown up in the limelight or its shadowy edge.
Julianna Baggott
#6. A man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and community have at heart if he would be liked.
Mark Twain
#7. Wanting to be liked is often a very unlikeable characteristic.
Stephen Fry
#8. I never wanted to be liked by the majority of people, but there were always some people that I desperately wanted to be liked by. And so you've got to behave in a way that ... the way I put it is that if you want to be a real intellectual, you've got to have someone to save you.
James D. Watson
#9. I can't say that I ever worried much about what people thought or said of me. I like to be liked, and have often wished that I could be as much loved as Jim Driscoll, say, but I have never been able to bow down to rules and regulations
Freddie Welsh
#10. There is a part of me that is desperately wanting to not necessarily be this cute, endearing, heart-on-his-sleeve type of character that just wants to be liked.
Colin Hanks
#11. Do you want to lead, or do you want to be liked?
Alistair Begg
#12. It's easy to be liked by strangers. It's very hard to be loved and connected to the people in your home when you're always bringing them your most exhausted self and resenting the fact that the scraps you're giving them aren't cutting it.
Shauna Niequist
#13. I know there are days when we want to be liked by others a little more than we want to change the world. But, if we decided to speak up a little more and hesitate a little less, we will begin making ripples of change.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#14. But what's true about comedians is that we've all got a huge hole in our personality. In a room of 3,000 people, we're the one person facing in the opposite direction - yet we have this overwhelming desire to be liked.
Jimmy Carr
#15. We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like to be liked yourself.
George W. Bush
#16. People have this delusion that everything has to be for everybody at all times. Every album must be liked by everybody, and every TV show must be liked by everybody, and every movie must be liked by everybody. Everything then becomes bland.
Rob Zombie
#17. It's about showing up. And sometimes I don't do it. I almost always regret it, but sometimes I don't do it. Sometimes I walk into a situation where I'm intimidated and I want to be liked and I want to fit in, and I don't choose authenticity. And it's always pretty miserable.
Brene Brown
#18. I came here from Romania when I was 12 years old. I had an accent. High school was tough a little bit for a few years. I wanted to fit in. I wanted to be liked. I wanted to be good-looking. I wanted to be popular. I spent a lot of time thinking, 'What are these people going to think of me?'
Sebastian Stan
#19. Today I will let go of my need for approval and my need to be liked. Instead, I will choose to like and approve of myself. The people who count (including me) will respect me when I'm true to who I really am.
Melody Beattie
#20. I try not to walk out of the room too fast. When the dormitory door closes behind me, I touch a hand to my forehead and grin a little. Awkwardness aside, it is nice to be liked.
Veronica Roth
#22. Wanting to be liked means being a supporting character in your own life, using the cues of the actors around you to determine your next line rather than your own script. It means that your self-worth will always be tied to what someone else thinks about you, forever out of your control.
Jessica Valenti
#23. We all want to be liked, loved, or needed. That is fine. What is not fine is what we are willing to do to make sure we are liked, or loved or needed. When we make the needs and wants of others a priority in our lives, we devalue ourselves.
Iyanla Vanzant
#24. You also have to attract the notice of superior officers. You have to be liked. You have to fit in with the system. You have to look like what the officers above you think that officers should look like. You have to think in ways that they are comfortable with.
Orson Scott Card
#25. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired.
Eve Ensler
#26. Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.
Alex Kingston
#27. You can feel yourself trying too hard, doing too much. Nobody wants to watch somebody when they're needy, and actors are in the unfortunate position of needing to be cast and needing to be liked.
Jess Weixler
#28. But Paying It Forward is about spontaneously offering favors, not needing to say yes when someone asks too much of you. And also, it's about kindness rather than niceness. There's a difference. Kindness is spontaneous and real. Niceness just mostly wants to be liked.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#29. You're not going to be liked by everybody when you speak the truth. I don't speak the truth to put people down; I don't speak the truth to show disrespect.
Hope Solo
#30. And I think that, of course, there is some dysfunction of needing to be liked or noticed or to feel part of things, something going on there for most actors. For some there's not and I think they really struggle with it.
Hugh Jackman
#31. Don't ask, don't tell. Keep your head down. Don't lie - just keep them talking about themselves and pretty soon they'll see their reflection. It's easy to be liked that way: people love themselves.
Mitty Walters
#32. In short, we all want to be liked. The refs, like all humans, are all social creatures and assimilate the emotions of the crowd. Every once in a while, a referee will subconsciously make a call that will make the crowd happier.
Harlan Coben
#33. I think politicians and comedians have a lot in common. One is a group of approval-seeking narcissists who will say and do anything to be liked ... and comedians are always talking about politics.
Aasif Mandvi
#34. 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.
Erica Sehyun Song
#35. 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.
Mike Birbiglia
#36. Regarding ego force, we don't always like people who have it. If you have it, and need to be liked, you ought to consider letting most of it come out the end of your brush.
Robert Genn
#37. 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.
Rachel Simmons
#38. For he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
Jane Austen
#39. She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.
E. Lockhart
#40. Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all! Better to become a stockbroker.
Michael Leunig
#41. The key to this world is to be loved by your fellow man and to be liked by yourself.
JohnA Passaro
#42. TV's 'real' agenda is to be 'liked,' because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison.
David Foster Wallace
#43. Everyone wants to be liked, so of course you want critical acclaim. After that, box office acclaim isn't bad. More than anything I think you have to try and make something you're proud of.
Cary Fukunaga
#44. Such an easy thing, to be liked. All you had to do was make sure people didn't know you.
K.J. Charles
#45. I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
Jack Ma
#48. Maybe Larry Kings cannot thrive or even survive in a world where the norms for discourse are rage, vehemence and character assassination. King wanted to be liked, not feared; admired, not loathed.
Tom Shales
#49. With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved.
Peter Gabriel
#50. I've always had that overweening desire to be liked by the audience.
Harold Ramis
#51. It's nice to be liked, but it's better by far to get paid.
Liz Phair
#52. When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.
Karl Lagerfeld
#53. There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
Robert Breault
#54. Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.
Jeffrey Kluger
#55. I began to weep with loneliness. What was I, who was I? I felt pretty again, my pimples were gone, the sun and the sea had made me slimmer, and yet the person I liked and whom I wished to be liked by showed no interest in me.
Elena Ferrante
#56. Duke, almost the only human characteristic Mike seems to possess is an overwhelming desire to be liked.
Robert A. Heinlein
#57. If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher
#58. People want to be liked by other people, so they adopt other people's standards, but for me, my standard had always been true.
Kirk Cameron
#59. Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point.
Criss Jami
#60. Certainly, you want to be liked, but as you gain confidence and experience you're more concerned with expressing yourself and what matters to you.
Ted Alexandro
#62. 'You like jealousy. You like knowing people want you.'
He wasn't talking about sex, and my heart slowed a little. 'Is it not natural to want to be liked?'
'That ain't what you want. It's like you got to have everybody's heart, and if they don't give it, you rip it out and watch it bleed.'
Sarah Monette
#64. Of all selfish bastards, a selfish bastard who likes to be liked is probably the worst. Never
Tom Holt
#65. No matter what players say or people say, you want to be liked and appreciated, even if you've had a downfall.
Jason Giambi
#66. It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.
Lionel Shriver
#67. 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.
Rick Warren
#68. I don't need to be liked, but I need to be vital - on set or on stage - and I think that probably would be my advice: Stay vital. It's about saying 'no' and asking the tough questions and believing in yourself when no one else will, but you have to know the rules to break them.
Logan Marshall-Green
#69. Trying something different won't ensure that you would be liked by everyone. Still.. Go on..
Vikrmn
#70. I can be vilified. I can be misunderstood. I didn't come here to be liked. I came here to make a difference.
Kanye West
#71. Nice sends a message that the woman is willing to sacrifice pay to be liked by others.
Sheryl Sandberg
#72. The quiet gravity really wasn't his style at all, which had always been both needy and dour; anxious to be liked, but incapable of taking friendliness for granted. A burden of the hugely rich.
Ian McEwan
#73. You really can't go through life wanting to be liked. It's the hardest lesson to learn. Once you say, "Fuck it, I don't care," once you've got that attitude, then it's easy to relax, to talk, laugh, cry, whatever.
Jimmy McDonough
#74. I didn't need to be liked. I didn't need friends, and I centrainly didn't need the kid trying to guild me into being something I wasn't. I was fine. Just a little cold.
Alexandra Bracken
#75. Oh fer Christ's bloody sake Martha I didna' raise ye to be well regarded. To be liked. Any puny weak-waisted slut can be liked. I raised ye to be reckoned with.
Kathleen Kent
#76. If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher
#77. If you're going to fall for men, or boys, then deal with the fact that you're going to be an outcast. It's not for the faint of heart, it's not for anybody hoping to be liked or respected or accepted or any of that bullshit.
Paul Russell
#78. I think I'd rather be liked than loved.
It just seems as if more criticism and chastening is shown to those we love, while kind manners and compassion are reserved for those we simply like.
So, I hope you like me.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#79. If the leader is a good man he will be liked and if he's not, he won't, and if he is a good man and a bad leader then he is better off dead.
Bernard Cornwell
#80. For a lot of women, one of the hardest things about leadership is the desire to be liked by everyone. That's often inconsistent with leadership. It's certainly inconsistent with taking positions on very controversial issues.
Sarah Weddington
#81. If you want to be liked, get a dog. The people you work with are not your friends.
Deborah Norville
#82. I have always wanted to be liked and respected.
O.J. Simpson
#83. I don't get afraid in talking about subject matter that may spark controversy, and I'm not afraid to not be liked. I think that sometimes people pay too much attention to being liked, and it's paralyzing.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#84. I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.
Sheryl Sandberg
#85. Psychologically, there are two major reasons why people conform - they want to be liked and they want to be right.
Leigh L. Thompson
#86. Girls are not accustomed to jockeying for status in an obvious way; they are more concerned that they be liked.
Deborah Tannen
#87. There was a time, early on in my career, when it was very important for me to be liked by everyone. It meant that I was musically less honest with myself.
Joshua Bell
#88. Without question, positive thinking will do more for you, will make you feel better, do better, let you have more fun, and be liked by more people than negative thinking ever will.
John Patrick Hickey
#89. How often do you cave in to the pressures of the crowd, seeking the approval of others instead of the approval of God? We all like to be liked - but that can be a very dangerous thing. Make it your goal to live for Christ and be faithful to Him, regardless of what the crowd demands.
Billy Graham
#90. Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.
Delia Ephron
#91. Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it's not like a compulsive need to be liked. Like my need to be praised.
Michael Scott
#92. I mean look at Antichrist. He's not making films to be liked by everyone, so why is this so surprising coming from Lars von Trier?
Kirsten Dunst
#93. Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored.
Mallory Ortberg
#94. But to be liked, you must never disagree. And if you never disagree, it's like only breathing in and never breathing outl A man can suffocate on courtesy. What if God wanted to be liked instead of loved? What if the almighty delayed every decision until He was sure it would please the majority?
J. Lawrence
#95. 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.
Halsey
#96. It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon.
Rick Bragg
#97. Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#98. There are certain advantages in being cursed by all and sundry ... especially, it dispenses you with having to be nice to anybody ... there's nothing more emollient, stultifying, emasculating than wanting to be liked ... "not nice!" ... that does it, you're free! ...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#99. It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you're too well behaved and don't want to break the rules. You have to think outside the box. That's what I believe. After all, what is the point of being on this earth if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and avoid trouble?
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#100. Intelligence and success are not clear paths to popularity at any age. This complicates everything, because at the same time women need to ... own their success, doing so causes them to be liked less.
Sheryl Sandberg
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