Top 30 No More People Pleasing Quotes
#1. The increased desire to please God and seek HIS approval will decrease the desire to seek approval from man.
Yvonne Pierre
#2. Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.
Edward Abbey
#3. Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent
Publilius Syrus
#4. The biggest mistake we commit in life is to think that others will get affected by our action and we shall leave some effect on them..
In this hope, we make others' reactions our priority and fail to perform the task we're supposed to do right at the moment.
Himmilicious
#5. If I were surrounded by people who always approved of me, I wouldn't need such a deep relationship with my own sense of right and wrong. And you know what that means? It means that other people's approval is actually a hindrance, more than a helper, when it comes to self-discovery.
Vironika Tugaleva
#6. If 'pleasing the people' is the only criterion (of a 'big' leader), then going to war or pretending to go to war or simulating outrage and bad mouthing states you can do nothing about, is the playbook for you.
Khaled Ahmed
#8. A pleasing personality helps you win friends and influence people. Add character to that formula, and keep those friends and maintain that influence.
Zig Ziglar
#9. We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don't waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be.
Paulo Coelho
#10. They reminded Ifemelu of television commercials, of people whose lives were lived always in flattering light, whose messes were still aesthetically pleasing.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#11. The key to lasting happiness and real pleasure in this world is not found in seeking gratification, but in pleasing God. And while the Lord desires that we enjoy His gifts and the people to whom we are joined, He wants us to know that we were created first for His pleasure.
Francis Frangipane
#12. Being a king was not about pleasing people. It was about controlling them.
Elizabeth Chadwick
#13. Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have ... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.
Joshua Reynolds
#14. Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I'd do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.
Steve Martin
#15. 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
#16. Be wary of the praise of men; don't let it pump you up unnecessarily and don't let it paralyze your progress
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#17. People were inevitably superficial and reacted differently to poison when it was aesthetically pleasing.
Taylor Stevens
#18. If history records good things about good people, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good; or if it records the evil of wicked people, the godly listener or reader is encouraged to avoid all that is sinful and bad, and to do what he knows to be good and pleasing to God.
Venerable Bede
#19. If a woman pushes to get the job done, if she's highly competent, if she focuses on results rather than on pleasing others, she's acting like a man. And if she acts like a man, people dislike her.
Sheryl Sandberg
#20. A crucified Savior is not well served by self-pleasing, self-indulging people.
R. Kent Hughes
#21. I assume the Spirit is always whispering, "Abba", to God's children, assuring them that they are safe in His care. And he is continually calling them to become what God saved them to be, solid people, indestructibly alive, hurting perhaps, but consumed with pleasing the Father.
Larry Crabb
#22. Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
Zadie Smith
#24. Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
Will Cuppy
#25. I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.
Margaret Atwood
#26. 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
#27. Never strive to be part of the norm. If people think you strange ... CELEBRATE. Normal people try way to hard to please others and never end up pleasing themselves. Be ABnormal. It's more fun.
Shelley K. Wall
#28. I realize I love crazy ladies. Of course I don't like to think of myself as one, but maybe I am, too. I dunno. I'm always drawn to them; I think it's because I'm attracted to people who aren't in the business of people-pleasing: saying what they really think, not passive-aggressive at all.
Michaela Watkins
#29. If really good people who are deeply committed and who are thriving spiritually have to beat down the nature with which they seem to have been born and cut themselves off from the full realization of love, how can that be pleasing to God?
Andrew Solomon
#30. It is a challenge trying not to give in to pleasing other people.
Kym Whitley
