Quotes about People-pleasing

Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.

we must not confuse the disease to please with the command to love.

If we're really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what's causing us to do what we do.

Do not confuse the command to love with the disease to please.

Freedom in Christ produces a healthy independence from peer pressure, people-pleasing, and the bondage of human respect.

I am prone to reshape and refashion things to try and please as many people as I can, to get as many nods or smiles out of as many people as possible.

If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.

Because of the pressure to fit in and to please, we can find ourselves making decisions that don't align with our highest good. When we make decisions from the fear of being judged and/or rejected, we doom ourselves to this people-pleasing brand of decision-making.

I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction.

We must not confuse the command to love with the disease to please.

Between 2008 and 2010 I exhausted myself because I wanted to please everyone.

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.