Top 100 Quotes About Being Liked
#1. Being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.
Wendy Wasserstein
#2. Women will continue to sacrifice being liked for being successful.
Sheryl Sandberg
#3. It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked
Susan Wiggs
#4. Worry about being respected, never worry about being liked because that's the trap.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#5. Not being liked was so much worse than being invisible.
Rebecca Donovan
#6. 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
#7. An average man is too concerned with liking people or with being liked himself. A warrior likes, that's all. He likes whatever or whomever he wants, for the hell of it.
Carlos Castaneda
#8. 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
#9. Obadiah Hakeswill had never been concerned by such enmity. Power did not lie in being liked, but in being feared.
Bernard Cornwell
#10. When you stop trying to be all things to all people, you can stop worrying about being liked and start building relationships that allow you to be loved. If you are not creating a negative response from somebody, you're probably not very fascinating to anybody.
Sally Hogshead
#11. It's never bad to be liked, and who doesn't feel good being liked, but that can't be your end game goal.
Jessica Capshaw
#12. Aspiring female leaders risk being liked but not respected, or respected but not liked, in settings that may require individuals to be both in order to succeed.
Barbara Kellerman
#13. I was so afraid of upsetting people, and not being liked for saying something that was not to everyone's taste.
Geri Halliwell
#14. It's nice being liked for playing the nice guy, but it's also fun to be the funny one.
Matt McGorry
#15. 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
#16. Oh. Listen, this is really hard for me ... "
"What is?"
"You know. Being liked." I started to cry. I couldn't help it.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
#17. 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.
Paul Arden
#18. I was learning the hard way that the gospel alone can free us from our addiction to being liked - that Jesus measured up for us so that we wouldn't have to live under the enslaving pressure of measuring up for others.
Tullian Tchividjian
#19. I think that not being loved by your parents or not having a brother or not being liked at school or even wearing glasses can be a lot worse than having a famous father.
Kim Wilde
#20. Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter.
Sheryl Sandberg
#22. he would not neglect what he considered his duty for the sake of being liked.
Naomi Novik
#23. Being liked by the boys and girls on the bus doesn't necessarily earn you the respect of the people back home. Standing up to them, giving as good as you get, all that helps.
Susan Estrich
#24. But when I decided to move here, I found I had a choice between being liked and having a say. That's the choice you'll have to make as well. They will either love you and not respect you, or they will respect you and not love you.
Philipp Meyer
#26. I like being liked. Is that crazy?
John Green
#27. I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.
Victoria Moran
#28. Being liked or not, having company or not, being understood or not, being acknowledged or not are not issues of concern on the spiritual path.
Donna Goddard
#29. Sometimes choosing being real over being liked is all about playing it unsafe.
Brene Brown
#30. 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.
Kyle Busch
#31. My Fear of not being liked or loved would tell me to tolerate things in some of my relationships with others that should not have been tolerated.
David Mezzapelle
#32. Not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!
Phyllis Bottome
#33. perfectionism is the need to be right instead of being liked
Ira Glass
#34. You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.
Vince Vaughn
#37. I'm not so funny. Gilda was funny. I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while. But she was funny. She spent more time worrying about being liked than anything else.
Gene Wilder
#38. Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Peter F. Drucker
#39. I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected
Jackie Robinson
#40. Too many parents fail to understand that there is a difference between fitting in and being liked, that there is a difference between being "normal" and being happy. High school is temporary. Family is not.
Alexandra Robbins
#41. Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.
Eve Ensler
#43. You think they liked me?'
'Sure they did. Who cares, though? They're just parents.'
'They're your parents,' he said, glancing over at me. 'Plus, I like being liked. Is that crazy?
John Green
#44. I've made humanitarian causes and my children much more my priority than the Hollywood scene, being liked and getting movie parts.
Sharon Stone
#45. Being liked for the way you looked is worse than not being liked at all.
Amanda Hocking
#46. You'll never change the world if you're worried about being liked.
Robin Sharma
#47. People ask me if my shoes were too small when I was a kid and I say it wouldn't matter how fight my shoes were, I just liked that feeling of them being in there. That's how I started tapping my toes.
Nomar Garciaparra
#48. No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe 'Hansel and Gretel' a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared.
Lana Parrilla
#49. I rallied all the youth around me, all the people who liked Compa, but felt like it was dying, going away, being replaced with Zouk. So it became a movement. So, through the years, I've played my music with dedication, discipline and originality, and controversy also.
Michel Martelly
#50. It sounds so cliched, but I've always been kind of different. I always liked being around weird kids.
Cecily Strong
#51. What she liked the most about drinking was not being present, that feeling of self-evasion, of disconnection, of liberation, of escape. Alcohol offered her an excellent alternative to being herself without actually dying.
Laura Esquivel
#52. I have always liked the contrast between being blonde and having dark features.
Rita Ora
#53. I liked being active. I liked being creative.
Sarah Hughes
#54. I used the aspects of being a woman to my advantage, but I worked for myself, not a big corporation, so I was lucky to have the freedom to behave however I liked.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#56. Yeah, I'm a physical kind of guy. I've always liked being physical. It takes a stuntman to really say, 'Look, we don't want you to do this. No, no, I'm serious, you're not going to do this' to get me not to do my stuff.
Dominic Purcell
#57. I had some years of definite frustration. Auditioning and not working as much as I would have liked to, or working and being paid a pittance, and sort of scrounging by in New York and sleeping on a chair that folded out into a bed.
Gillian Jacobs
#58. Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail ... A man in the crowd asked how he liked it, and his reply was that if it wasn't for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk.
Abraham Lincoln
#59. I'm trying to think how I impressed my wife. We had an on-stage kiss, and I really went for it. Because I liked her. Usually you can get away with it being just technical, but it was a problem when I ended up kissing my wife on the set. I'd say I stopped acting and kissed her on set.
David Walton
#60. Some seek the light and hold the light in place. Erik Fiskare didn't like being the center of attention, but he liked situations where he had to keep the attention centered.
Suanne Laqueur
#61. I had never traveled alone before and I discovered that I liked it. No one in the world knew where I was, no one had the ability to reach me. It was like being dead, my escape allowing me to taste that tremendous power my mother possessed forever.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#62. I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.
George A. Romero
#63. He has achieved what Nietzsche liked to call 'The Great Health' - rare humour, valour, and resilience of spirit: despite being, or because he is, afflicted with Tourette's.
Oliver Sacks
#64. I'd always lived with people - my family, or had people living with me, because I'd never liked being on my own.
Elton John
#65. Well, I don't even know how to drive in this life, so I'm pretty far from ever having the life of being a stuntdouble. I liked- I had an Evil Knievel doll when i was a kid, that's about it!
John Frusciante
#66. I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work.
Harold Brodkey
#67. When I came to Barcelona, I really liked in the dressing room that I found balanced, normal people: Valdes, Puyol, Iniesta. They don't think they are the center of the world for being football players.
Lilian Thuram
#68. The truth of the matter was that I made myself disappear. I never liked being a Judge, so I just decided to start over. Sorry to inconvenience anyone.
Joseph Force Crater
#69. He had always called her "Krys," which nobody else had ever done. She had liked being Krys.
J.K. Rowling
#70. I liked being married instead of the girl who's looking for a guy.
Doris Day
#71. I just liked being around you, even if we didn't say anything.
Matthew Quick
#72. Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.
A. E. Hotchner
#73. It never occurred to me to be a film director, partly because I hadn't seen a single film by a female director, but I liked the idea of being a writer moving to Hollywood and being unhappy; that sounded romantic and fabulous to me.
Mary Harron
#74. A small smile pulled at her lips. "I will hold you to that, Warrior." For the first time since his god had been loosened inside him, he liked the sound of being called a Warrior.
Donna Grant
#75. I have gotten one question repeatedly from young men. These are guys who liked the book, but they are honestly confused. They ask me why Melinda was so upset about being raped.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#76. I started out with almost entirely black fans except for a little handful of people in the horror writers' community, and those people really liked horror, you know. They will go to any lengths and read whomever they can find because they like that feeling of being scared.
Tananarive Due
#77. it wasn't that the forty-eight-year-old doctor didn't like people; he simply liked being alone better.
James Patterson
#78. 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
#79. As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.
Jerome Isaac Friedman
#80. He wasn't antisocial - he always had friends, and everybody liked him - but he could go off and entertain himself for hours. He didn't seem to need toys or friends. He could be alone without being lonely.
Carine McCandless
#81. I don't think much of most of the films I made, but being a movie star was something I liked very much.
Joan Bennett
#82. I never liked being called the 'most decorated' soldier. There were so many guys who should have gotten medals and never did
guys who were killed.
Audie Murphy
#83. They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever liked being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course is insulting to anybody.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#84. I didn't always know I wanted to do music, I got more into music in high school. I always sort of liked the idea of psychology so I thought of being a therapist or someone who helps other people.
Alex Gaskarth
#85. I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.
Gerald Durrell
#86. I discovered that men were just like everyone else, really. They liked you if you were good-tempered and easy to talk to. And being a big girl meant other females trusted you more and confided in you.
Maeve Binchy
#87. I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
Samantha Shannon
#88. Despite my tendency to keep eighty percent of myself to myself, I liked being surrounded by people.
Samantha Young
#89. Cancer softened me up. I like the old me better. I liked being angry. It made me feel strong.
Johnny Ramone
#90. I wondered for a second why I cared so much, but I knew I did. I wanted to be more like the Upper-Cs. Not snobby or mean, but just a bit more. It was hard to explain, I just liked the thought of being dolled up and having a few nice things.
Y.A. Marks
#91. I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.
Michael Schur
#92. Oh, Lucia the captain said softly, you are so little and so lovely. how I would have liked to have taken you to Norway and shown you the fiords in the midnight sun, and to China- what you've missed, Lucia, by being born too late to travel the Seven Seas with me! And what I've missed, too.
R.A. Dick
#93. When I was reading books for 'Seesaw Girl,' I came across several references to the fact that in the 11th and 12th centuries, Korean pottery was considered the finest in the world. I liked that - the idea of a little tiny country being the best at something.
Linda Sue Park
#95. I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.
Samuel Johnson
#96. Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.
Bryan Callen
#97. I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.
Spencer Johnson
#98. I've always liked the idea of being a father. And I've always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#99. This was different: the feeling of being chosen. Out of everybody in the world...this boy had picked him as the one he liked best of all.
Elise Broach
#100. I do not think I liked being a child very much. It seemed like something one was intended to endure, not enjoy: a fifteen-year-long sentence to a world less interesting than the one that the other race inhabited.
Neil Gaiman
