Please all, and you will please none.
~ Aesop

Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.
~ Dale Carnegie

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
~ Claudius Claudianus

Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.
~ Oliver Cromwell

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
~ Wayne Dyer

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.
~ George Foreman

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
~ Dag Hammarskjold

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
~ Raymond Hull

The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
~ William James

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
~ Samuel Johnson

Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eyes.
~ Samuel Lover

My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it.
~ Robert Montgomery

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
~ Norman Vincent Peale

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.
~ Joel Rosenberg

The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.
~ Casey Stengel

I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.
~ Dr. Paul Tournier

Everybody has the right to be left alone but nobody has the right to demand approval.
~ Anonymous

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.
~ Maurice Wagner

Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.
~ Rozanne Weissman