Top 40 Impress Others Quotes
#1. Stop trying to impress others with your stuff and start trying to impress them with your life.
Joshua Becker
#2. A hypocrite [is the one who] wants to impress others with an external facade of religious piety that he knows is devoid of internal spiritual substance.
Sam Storms
#3. The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.
Vernon Howard
#4. Cheapskates ... are too self-confident - and frankly too smart - to spend money on things they don't need and probably don't even want, simply to impress others or just because they can.
Jeff Yeager
#5. I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth and privilege and no matter what's going on around them they have a singular purpose to maintain their rank and to impress others.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#6. Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others.
Confucius
#7. Those who constantly try to impress others will quickly depress themselves.
Lysa TerKeurst
#8. Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal!
to illusions of grandeur and a desire to impress others and achieve eminence ... Our search for knowledge should be ceaseless, which means that it is open-ended, never resting on laurels, degrees, or past achievements.
Hugh Nibley
#9. We are forever looking outside ourselves, seeking approval and striving to impress others. But living to please others is a poor substitute for self-love, for no matter how family and friends may adore us, they can never satisfy our visceral need to love and honor ourselves.
Susan L. Taylor
#10. Do not make an effort to impress others. When you come from the self, your expression is perfect and your impression lasts for ages.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#11. Trying to impress others does - usually in quite the opposite way.
Malcolm Forbes
#12. Want to impress others? Talk about your successes. Want to impact others? Talk about your failures.
John C. Maxwell
#13. The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment.
Robert Ringer
#14. To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
#15. I think everyone is most confident when they are just being themselves and not trying to impress others.
Bethany Mota
#16. At the outset, I think that one should be natural, not just when it comes to writing but in every area of life. If you try to be something that you are not just to impress others, then it's a rather sad life.
Amish Tripathi
#17. The sages advise us to study Torah lishma-"for its own sake" rather than to impress others with our scholarship. A paradox of parenting is that if we love our children for their own sake rather than for their achievements, it's more likely that they will reach their true potential.
Wendy Mogel
#18. It's true, I'm impressed with myself, almost daily. If I don't impress myself then how am I ever to feel accomplished?"
"Who cares if you impress others?"
"Indeed. Others' opinions hardly matter, but one's own sense of accomplishment is paramount, is it not?
Ridley Pearson
#19. It is a law of life that human beings, even the geniuses among them, do not pride themselves on their actual achievements but thatthey want to impress others, want to be admired and respected because of things of much lower import and value.
Stefan Zweig
#20. The defense mechanisms of The Imposter are: sarcasm, name-dropping, self-righteousness, the need to impress others and the need for others' approval.
Manning Brennan
#21. When we get rid of our ego, we stop doing things to impress others, we stop trying to cling to the idea of ourselves and we realize that we are a part of the natural world. This realization will give us the perspective that is greatly needed to improve the state of our society.
Joseph P. Kauffman
#22. Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, in order to impress others who don't care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.
Victor Papanek
#24. At the end of the day, our recovery must be based not on shame or perfectionism or the need to impress others, but on our willingness to be kind to ourselves.
Erica Spiegelman
#25. We humans do thousand and one thing to impress others and show to the world that we are smart and wise but we tend to forget one very simple thing, there is small child in each one of us which is hungry for our own trust and inspirations.
Santosh Kalwar
#26. The further we travel down the path of enlightenment, the more humble we become. We shouldn't seek to impress others - or allow ourselves to be taken - with mere outer trappings. If we do our inner work, our spirit will be our calling card. Nice to meet you.
Philip Toshio Sudo
#27. The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them - to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.
Vanna Bonta
#28. Whatever ideals we would impress upon others we must first have realized in ourselves.
Thomas S. Monson
#29. I'd learned something ... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me ... and others. This was valuable information.
Anthony Bourdain
#30. What other people think of us usually has very little to do with who we are. It has a lot more to do with the other individuals' issues-their prejudices, their fears, and projections. So it is a waste of time to constantly try to impress or please others.
Beverly Engel
#31. In such a person, sadness breeds purpose; finding inspiration in the darkness and often times, I believe, they will impress a hell onto their own lives in order to re-create it, that others might suffer the experience from the comfort of their armchairs. - Quote from Her Past's Present.
Michael Poeltl
#32. You'll never learn anything or impress anyone by making excuses and diverting blame.
Frank Sonnenberg
#33. The measure of self-assurance is how deeply and sincerely interested you are in others; the measure of insecurity is how much you try to impress them with you.
Mark Goulston
#34. To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
William Hazlitt
#35. Three things to give up to be happier:
1. Never complain, condemn, or criticize.
2. Give up anger, fear, and resentment.
3. Give up the desire to impress and control others.
Debasish Mridha
#36. To protect one's own statement is the greatest form of violence. To impress upon others that his statement is correct is a form of violence itself.
Dada Bhagwan
#37. Your house is made by its own needs. Those others are made by the need to impress. The determining motive of your house is in the house. The determining motive of the other is in the audience.
Ayn Rand
#38. Nietzsche's point is that the world does not present itself as an indifferent array of inert facts. The world tempts and repulses, threatens and charms; certain features impress themselves upon us, others recede into the perphery, unnoticed. Our experience of the world is fundamentally value-laden.
Paul Katsafanas
#39. Take your focus off how others see you. Cease being obsessed with the need to impress your friends and your foes. Keep your concern on the vision you see in the mirror. Don't allow the approval of others to obstruct your view of you.
Tavis Smiley
#40. Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.
Norm MacDonald
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