Top 23 Do What Pleases You Quotes
#1. The point is not to get hung up on being what you're supposed to be. If you can, it's good to do what pleases you.
Robert B. Parker
#2. Indian summer is like a woman. Ripe, hotly passionate, but fickle, she comes and goes as she pleases so that one is never sure whether she will come at all, nor for how long she will stay.
Grace Metalious
#3. You know better than I, Monsieur,' said he, 'that to lie with a girl is only to make her do what pleases her; there is often a great distance between that and making her do what we want.
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
#4. Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.
Jeremiah Burroughs
#5. I see something of a comrade in you. You like a book. Silent revelation on a page pleases you better than a self-bolstering display of verbal spillage. What do you see in me?
Clare Boylan
#6. A famous monk once said, I don't always know what the right thing to do is, my Lord, but I think the fact that I want to please you pleases you.
Penn Jillette
#7. It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does.
Jeremiah Burroughs
#8. So you can't please all the people all the time. All you can do is what pleases you, and hope that it pleases other people.
I love my readers, and I respect my readers, but I'm not going to simplify or echo myself, copy myself, just so the sales will be better.
Clive Barker
#10. A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. Quid obscurum, quid divinum. Each historian traces, to some extent, the particular feature which pleases him amid this pell-mell.
Victor Hugo
#11. Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.
Alphonsus Liguori
#12. Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; if, of course that is to say, what you please is what you may.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
#13. Most merciful God, order my day so that I may know what you want me to do, and then help me to do it. Let me not be elated by success or depressed by failure. I want only to take pleasure in what pleases you, and only to grieve at what displeases you.
Kurt Bjorklund
#14. Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.
Edward Young
#15. Attentive japa pleases the Lord and ultimately solves all problems.
Mahanidhi Swami
#16. Granted, God is sovereign and can speak as he pleases - through a proof text, a poem, or Balaam's donkey. But we do not regularly seek out donkeys to tell us how to live.
Craig S. Keener
#17. Shall I belong to one man whom I don't love, merely because I have once loved him? No, I do not renounce; I love everyone who pleases me, and give happiness to everyone who loves me.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#18. They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases.
Elliott Smith
#19. I couldn't care less what anybody says about me. I live my life, especially my personal life, strictly for myself ... Whatever you do, you're going to be criticized. I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you.
Johnny Carson
#20. My advice is this, do whatever pleases yourself. These things don't matter. What does matter is that if you have anything worth while in you, any talent, you should deliver it. Nothing must turn you from that.
Patrick Kavanagh
#21. I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't hurt anybody else, what you do is your own business.
Johnny Carson
#22. Modern war is fought by a number of strong, sweaty horsemen with constipation, who have their eyes on power, on wealth and on glory, and who obey the rules just when it pleases them.
Dorothy Dunnett
#23. You've won all creation. It's yours to do with it as you please- and you discover what pleases you most is doing the right thing for all creation in moment after moment.
Brad Warner