Quotes About Being Likable

#1. The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what's better than being roundly liked is being fully known - an impossibility both professionally and personally if you're so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.

Jessica Valenti

#2. If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#3. Life was anything but fast, in your opinion. If it went any more slowly, time would probably start to run backward.

Rebecca Stead

#4. Defensive players kind of have that two-faced kind of way of being able to be very aggressive on the football field and going out there and getting there job done. At the same time, from my own incidents and my own personality, I'm much a person that's very likable and lovable.

Ndamukong Suh

#5. It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable.

Jerzy Kosinski

#6. I'm usually reading too many books - in fact, I'm usually reading enough books that if the stack fell on me, I'd be injured.

Nick Harkaway

#7. I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen

Rene Descartes

#8. Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in a way you figure you will be maximally likable.

David Foster Wallace

#9. If you'll dare to take your mind off your troubles, get your mind off your own needs and, instead, seek to be a blessing to other people, God will do more for you than you could even ask or think.

Joel Osteen

#10. Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.

Matthew Shultz

#11. As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.

David Sedaris