It's Just a F***ing Date Quotes

“You can’t fix people or make them change; the only thing you can do is pack your shit and leave if it isn’t working for you.”
― Greg Behrendt, It's Just a F***ing Date: Some Sort of Book About Dating

“People don’t respond to what you tell them; they respond to what you show them.”
― Greg Behrendt, It's Just a F***ing Date: Some Sort of Book About Dating

“There are things in life you can change—your weight, your appearance, your mindset, etc.—but there is one thing you cannot change and that is other people. Try as we might we cannot get people to love us. Even when we are the coolest best version of ourselves someone is going to say, “Not for me.” But if we feel good about ourselves we can shrug it off and say, “It’s just a f***ing date,” and know that there will be others.”
― Greg Behrendt, It's Just a F***ing Date: Some Sort of Book About Dating

“The only reason people compromise themselves is because they don’t feel strongly enough about themselves and are looking for another person to fix it for them, either sexually or emotionally. That’s why it is imperative that you get to a place where you like yourself, even if just for the added bonus of weeding out the creeps.”
― Greg Behrendt, It's Just a F***ing Date: Some Sort of Book About Dating

“Being a winner in life means finding a way to keep yourself in the personal space where you’re being the best and most vibrant you instead of the smallest you. That is the secret to success in anything you want to do in life. That means not comparing yourself to anyone else and concentrating on you. Because when your self-esteem is in the shitter and you don’t feel worthy, you look to others for validation, you settle for crappy things and all you get is crappy things and who wants that?”
― Greg Behrendt, It's Just a F***ing Date: Some Sort of Book About Dating

“Your happiness is the most important thing in this life. If you are not happy, you are of no use to anyone else.”
― Greg Behrendt, It's Just a F***ing Date: Some Sort of Book About Dating

“Women always have and always will continue to date a man's potential instead of his reality. We can't help ourselves. It's in a woman's nature to be hopeful and to see the possibilities, the greatness that people possess. Hooray for us; aren't we lovely. We are, but dating someone's potential is probably the biggest mistake women make in relationships and certainly the one that leads to our romantic downfall. That's because there are three types of men: the ones that find our faith in their potential to be appealing, the ones that find our faith in their potential to be a burden...and the ones that find it appealing at first, then are crushed by the burden of their unreached potential and resentful of the women they once adored for that very faith.”
― Greg Behrendt, It's Just a F***ing Date: Some Sort of Book About Dating

“More often than not, dating a man's potential is the long road to disaster, so listen to who he says he is and take him at his word. If you can love who he is now and not have your attraction be based on who he might become, then you're in good shape. If you're not, well, then you best keep looking because most people have different aspirations than you might have for them.”
― Greg Behrendt, It's Just a F***ing Date: Some Sort of Book About Dating

“I’m going to just tell them now that I love them, blow them in the bathroom or whatever impulsive thing that you know you shouldn’t do, because that will either make him want to be with me more or bail, but at least I’ll know now!”
― Greg Behrendt, It's Just a F***ing Date: Some Sort of Book About Dating