Quotes About Being Disliked

#1. One of the few advantages of being disliked is that you don't need to fret over what others think about you.

Amish Tripathi

#2. Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's the hard work of standing up for what you see.

Eve Ensler

#3. He had conceded in a panic - for it crushed Nilssen's spirit to be held in low esteem by other men. He could not bear to know that he was disliked, for to him there was no real difference between being disliked, and being dislikeable; every injury he sustained was an injury to his very selfhood.

Eleanor Catton

#4. We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

May Sarton

#5. Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.

Michael Douglas

#6. In order to protest ourselves from being disliked, we question our abilities and downplay our achievements, especially in the presence of others. We put ourselves down before others can.

Sheryl Sandberg

#7. I love being with people and hate being disliked. It's a mass thing ... but I want a special kind of relationship with one person too.
I just can't seem to have both

Rae Earl

#8. It's better to risk being disliked for living your truth than to be loved for what you are pretending to be.

Dawn Gluskin

#9. Peace you can claim for yourself without being disliked by anyone, without any sense of loss, and without any pangs of spirit.

Seneca.

#10. See, popularity is complicated. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about liking; you have to really like being liked, and also sort like being disliked.

John Green

#11. To mind being disliked by a woman you don't desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.

Wendell Berry

#12. I don't mind being disliked - I will be the one to step up and say what needs to be said if it helps one woman who comes after me.

Rose McGowan

#13. It was fine to be mocked or disliked on his own terms. But his sexual orientation was such a naked target, unfortified by nonchalance and lacking the benefit of being a persona he'd constructed. Gay Mark wasn't sheddable like Smart-Ass Mark or Bitter-About-the-Move Mark.

Lisa Henry

#14. Menstruating is the only part of being female I have ever disliked. Everything else feels like a unique and covetable privilege, but this?

Lena Dunham

#15. I have always disliked being a man. The whole idea of manhood in America is pitiful, in my opinion. This version of masculinity is a little like having to wear an ill-fitting coat for one's entire life (by contrast, I imagine femininity to be an oppressive sense of nakedness).

Paul Theroux

#16. I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected

Jackie Robinson

#17. Ethan didn't mind his blood being taken - he just disliked the fact that it had to be sucked through a needle in order to do it.

Belinda G. Buchanan

#18. Bond found this irksome. He disliked being cosseted. It gave him claustrophobia.

Ian Fleming

#19. I don't hate other women. Let me rephrase that: I hate other women and men - people in general can be annoying - but I've never disliked a woman for being beautiful.

Iliza Shlesinger

#20. Football? Forget it. I didn't have that thing inside me where I wanted to smash against somebody and watch them break. I was too sensitive for that and disliked being that sensitive.

Josh Brolin

#21. This was how Christians had fallen under the umbrella of being judgmental and narrow-minded. The idea that one sin could be singled out as the worst, the area God disliked most.

Karen Kingsbury

#22. I realised that I really disliked him, and I knew exactly why: he didn't know the difference between being solemn and being serious.

John Cleese

#23. Not that folks disliked me or that I ever went around being mean, but folks never did get close to me and it was most likely my fault. There was always something standoffish about me. I liked folks, but I liked the wild animals, the lonely trails, and the mountains better.

Louis L'Amour

#24. It seemed to me an odd view to take - rather as if one should protest that one didn't LIKE the idea of dying or being born. I preferred the notion of finding out first how it would be, and then doing what one could about the parts of it one disliked most.

John Wyndham

#25. I knew that people disliked me, and there always will be, but that's the price you pay for being in the limelight, so to speak.

Tyler Hamilton

#26. I usually disliked whatever was being played on a music store's speakers. It spoiled the pleasure of thinking about other music. Record shops, I felt, should be silent spaces; there, more than anywhere else, the mind needed to be clear.

Teju Cole

#27. Relationship Principle 11
It is better to be disliked for being who you are than to be loved for who you are not.

Sherry Argov

#28. They also accused her of being sardonic, and although there was uncertainty about the meaning of the word, they knew it was not a desirable quality in a woman, being one which gentlemen particularly disliked.

P.D. James

#29. The reader may remember, that when I signed those articles upon which I recovered my liberty, there were some which I disliked, upon account of their being too servile; neither

Jonathan Swift

#30. I myself have always disliked being called a "genius." It is fascinating to notice how quick people have been to intuit this aversion and avoid using the term.

John Lanchester

#31. One escapes; but one always has to come back. I found too I disliked not being in command of myself.

Dorothy Dunnett

#32. I had hoped to be disliked by most, not by way of rebellion, but by way of excellence, disdain for the habitual, and the common man's inability to grasp this. The act of being scorned? I saw it as a victory, my irreverent boast against this world which could never fully quench me.

Coco J. Ginger