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Please all, and you will please none.
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Aesop
620-560 BC Greek Fabulist
Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.
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Carnegie, Dale
1888-1955 American Author Trainer
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .
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Claudianus, Claudius
340-410 Egyptian Latin Poet
Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.
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Cromwell, Oliver
1599-1658 Parliamentarian General Lord Protector of England
People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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Dyer, Wayne
1940 American Psychotherapist Author Lecturer
It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.
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Foreman, George
1949 American Boxer
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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Hammarskjold, Dag
1905-1961 Swedish Statesman Secretary-general of UN
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
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Hull, Raymond
The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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Johnson, Samuel
1709-1784 British Author
Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eyes.
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Lover, Samuel
1797-1868 American Author
My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it.
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Montgomery, Robert
1807-1855 American Author
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
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Peale, Norman Vincent
1898-1993 American Christian Reformed Pastor Speaker Author
There just isn’t any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.
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Rosenberg, Joel
The best ballplayer’s the one who doesn’t think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.
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Stengel, Casey
1889-1975 American Baseball Player and Manager
I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.
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Tournier, Dr. Paul
Everybody has the right to be left alone but nobody has the right to demand approval.
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Unknown, Source
At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.
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Wagner, Maurice
Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.
Weissman, Rozanne