Pleasers Quote by Joyce Maynard Download Open image “For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.” — Joyce Maynard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pleasers Responsibility Years
I just felt that it was my responsibility, since so many people had taken the time to help me along, to do the same… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
Inevitably in my career of 35 years, I was in one turnaround circumstance after another, and I was personally put in positions of significant… — Kevin Allen Copy Share Image
I dare you to show me one example where I haven't discharged my responsibility seriously, professionally and appropriately. — John Key Copy Share Image
I had to take on responsibility early in my life, was already in a kind of adult role as a child. — Ralf Rangnick Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I took everything seriously, and I still do to some degree. — Doug Baldwin Copy Share Image
No, I said. I didn't remember that. There was so much to remember, sometimes the best thing was to forget. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
“I tried to think of what my father would tell me. 'Don't let any boy give you shit.' But he'd never said how we… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
“It’s like life: sometimes the littlest thing turns out to be the most important.” — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women,… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
A man pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service; the wind of a man's… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
I've got to be kind of careful because I've had good advice: "Don't sell yourself too short." I have to not be too available to everything that comes along. I've always been a people pleaser and now I'm upping the ante in terms of price so I can be more selective. I really enjoyed working on three tracks on Sara… — Phil Keaggy Copy Share
Let your light shine today, and let your personality blossom, too. You don't have to be a people-pleaser, just a people-lover. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
One of the most painfully inauthentic ways we show up in our lives sometimes is saying "yes" when we mean "no," and saying "no"… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I'm a big people pleaser; I had a very awkward adolescence. Part of me is still that person who wants everyone to like me. — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy. — Yvette Nicole Brown Copy Share Image
We as human beings are slightly masochistic. Everybody is ridden with insecurities and they manifest themselves in different ways, whether you're a pleaser, you're… — Kristen Bell Copy Share Image
Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don't be a people pleaser. — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image