People-pleasers
If you try too hard to please people … you may find yourself making unwise choices. (2 Minutes a day. 100 Devotionals)
It’s encouraging to have others think well of us and show us favor. But, if our goal is to have people like us, how do we gain that attention? Going out of our way just to please someone whose attention we want might lead us to do things that will compromise our integrity. Earning the good favor of others by love and good deeds is the better way.
Our purpose is to please God, not people. He alone examines the motives of our hearts. (1 Thessalonians 2:4)