Top 72 Quotes About Being Well Liked
#1. I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.
Molly Parker
#2. A great leader cannot worry about being well liked.
Andrew Hill
#4. Worry about being respected, never worry about being liked because that's the trap.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Cancer softened me up. I like the old me better. I liked being angry. It made me feel strong.
Johnny Ramone
#10. Despite my tendency to keep eighty percent of myself to myself, I liked being surrounded by people.
Samantha Young
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.
Gerald Durrell
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. You see we had on the whole liked him well enough. And liking is not sufficient to keep going the interest one takes in a human being. With hatred, apparently, it is otherwise.
Joseph Conrad
#21. Keating leaned back with a sense of warmth and well-being. He liked this book. It had made the routine of his Sunday morning breakfast a profound spiritual experience; he was certain that it was profound, because he didn't understand it.
Ayn Rand
#22. Alice had begun with 'Let's pretend we're kings and queens;' and her sister, who liked being exact, had argued that they couldn't, because there were only two of them, and Alice hand been reduced at last to say, 'Well, you can be one of them then, and I'll be the rest.
Lewis Carroll
#23. I know this perfectly well, but it was precisely this that I liked - her thinking me silly. Such a peculiar vice: to be secretly pleased to be allowed to observe that one is being slightly robbed.
Robert Walser
#24. Today, we have many ways of defining success in life. Some define it as being a sports hero, others as being wealthy, others as being popular and well liked, and still others as being happy. How does God define success? He defines it as being spiritually mature!
Dr. Todd M. Fink
#25. I liked me and I had been well drilled in good manners by Aunt Penny, who had often told me the best manners meant being thoughtful, a good listener and watching what everyone else was doing and deciding if it was worth trying.
Merabeth James
#26. My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people like you, should you?
Oliver
#27. 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
#28. I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.
Barbara Corcoran
#29. 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
#30. I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.
Samuel Johnson
#31. I said I thought I liked Dean's idea of a succession of lives - I can't make out from him whether he really believes that or not - and Ilse said that might be all very well if you were sure of being born again as a decent person, but how about it if you weren't?
L.M. Montgomery
#32. What I liked about working with Palmbomen and him being a super crate digger and super well known with all this exotic and unfamiliar music to me.
Sam De Jong
#33. I've never seen a German shepherd that liked spinach before.'
'She doesn't know she's a dog.'
'What does she think she is?'
'Well, she seems to think she's a special being that transcends classification.'
'Superdog?'
'Maybe so.
Haruki Murakami
#34. 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
#35. He stayed with her for so long because he liked the idea of being in love. He has an empty well in his heart that needs to be filled by someone. Anyone. But that's not enough for me, and it won't be enough for him either once he finally realizes the truth.
Stephanie Perkins
#36. Sin and accountability aren't popular messages. Yet being trendy and well liked is not the point. We're here to carry out the work and mission of God, even when doing so is uncomfortable.
Charles Stanley
#37. She always said that she respected and liked us all equally, and I have to say that that attitude didn't go down well with me, accustomed as I was to being singled out and held up in a special way.
Jamaica Kincaid
#38. 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
#39. I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.
George A. Romero
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#47. 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
#48. I liked being active. I liked being creative.
Sarah Hughes
#49. I have always liked the contrast between being blonde and having dark features.
Rita Ora
#50. 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
#51. It sounds so cliched, but I've always been kind of different. I always liked being around weird kids.
Cecily Strong
#52. Being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.
Wendy Wasserstein
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. I liked being married instead of the girl who's looking for a guy.
Doris Day
#57. it wasn't that the forty-eight-year-old doctor didn't like people; he simply liked being alone better.
James Patterson
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.
A. E. Hotchner
#63. It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked
Susan Wiggs
#64. I just liked being around you, even if we didn't say anything.
Matthew Quick
#65. 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
#66. Women will continue to sacrifice being liked for being successful.
Sheryl Sandberg
#67. He had always called her "Krys," which nobody else had ever done. She had liked being Krys.
J.K. Rowling
#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. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
