Done Pleasing Everyone Quotes

#1. It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#2. Women can be pressured to be perfect in many ways. And in our efforts to be "responsible" in every way, you might lose time and energy. If you truly want to direct [a film], you may have to let go of pleasing everyone on a consistent basis.

Jennifer Phang

#3. Hockey suffers from being compared to itself in ways that other sports are not. Every four years, some of us fawn over Olympic hockey, a great event with bigger rinks, minimal goonishness and national pride in addition to the heightened skills of veritable all-star squads.

George Vecsey

#4. Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.

Rose Macaulay

#5. if someone had noticed the signs in you, would you have sought help?" "No, I guess you're right." "Of course I am." He smiled. "And you need to stop worrying about pleasing everyone. If your family wants to shut you out, so be it.

Anne Patrick

#6. Just because my dad is Clint Eastwood doesn't mean I don't have to work for a living.

Scott Eastwood

#7. Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.

Eugene Delacroix

#8. My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.

Eliot Porter

#9. Anyone who doesn't want you to be happy with who you are is an asshole. Fuck pleasing everyone else. You only live once. Who are you gonna do it for?

Dahlia Adler

#10. You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.

Robert Jordan

#11. That's all this job is, Daine," she explained. "Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better.

Tamora Pierce

#12. If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself

Jocelyn Murray

#13. Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.

Andre Maurois

#14. Do you love me?"
He spoke without hesitation, without the usual line of thought between his eyes. "Infinitely.

Jodi Meadows

#15. Success is not about impressing and pleasing everyone, but setting your own goals, and achieving them in your own time.

Auliq Ice

#16. I'm not fighting restraints or worrying about pleasing everyone. I've been able to carve my own niche in the marketplace, which is pretty cool. Obviously, I'm just blessed to be able to tour the country and make a living to support my family at the same time.

Bill Kirchen

#17. You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul.

Walt Disney

#18. Accept that you'll never please everyone and you're on your way to pleasing the right ones.

Elena D. Calin

#19. It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young man in his prime wanders much by chance, vacillating in his beliefs, while the old man has docked in the harbor, having safeguarded his true happiness.

Epicurus

#20. I'd been doing everything to please everyone else and some imaginary me.

Jolene Stockman

#21. The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

Jose Saramago

#22. Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.

Jules De Goncourt

#23. The way we behave, our views and outlooks really have their sources some place. They come from somewhere. Sometimes we don't even know what they are, and yet they're very powerful in our lives.

Kim Edwards

#24. The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

#25. my joy. That was a great day in my life! Your time is too valuable to worry about pleasing everyone else or making them happy. I know people who spend more time worrying about what others think about them than they do focusing on their own dreams and goals. You've got to get free from that.

Joel Osteen

#26. The body is soft, beautiful, vulnerable. It's easy to threaten it. It's easy to harm it. It takes next to nothing to cause pain, to draw blood, to break bones. Takes next to nothing to blast a body to bits. It's much harder to protect it, she says, and much more important.

David Almond

#27. You see how it is, my dear friends. There's no pleasing everyone. It's hopeless to even try, and the more you play the peacemaker, the less peaceful things become.

Sholem Aleichem

#28. I'm 25. I'm a white, blonde girl in the entertainment industry - it's so easy to fall into a world of pleasing everyone. I feel more comfortable showing all these odd angles to myself.

Brie Larson

#29. Do you mind even a little that you are still addicted to people-pleasing, and are still putting everyone else's needs and laundry and career ahead of your creative, spiritual life? Giving all your life force away, to "help" and impress. Well, your help is not helpful, and falls short.

Anne Lamott