I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
Herbert Bayard Swope
One of the things I have struggled with is my 'people pleasing' tendencies. I want to please someone else so badly that I would destroy myself in the process. Their image for me was more important than who I really was. By the time I went to counseling I was in a deep dark hole. I barely knew who I was.
I now like the quote from Winston Churchill....
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
4 comments:
OMG, Ruth!
My next post is Characteristics of a People Pleaser!
Cool. I look forward to reading it. :)
Hey Ruth,
Good quotes. Thanks for linking to the quote on mulderfan's blog, too.
Q
Thanks Quinn. mulderfan's blog is great. She is a special lady who has encouraged me often. :)
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