Not Pleasing You Quotes

#1. I think that the special thing about radio is the off switch. If something's not pleasing you, turn it off.

Kenneth Goldsmith

#2. In the end it had to do with stroking my own ego, not pleasing you, Sir.

Red Phoenix

#3. When digital recording came in about '84, everything started to follow into digital. Now, you've got the best recording media in the world, but it's not very pleasing to the ear.

Peter Hook

#4. All too often, we are pleasing the enemy MORE than we are pleasing God by living defeated. Jesus did not die for us to walk around defeated. You have the POWER to turn any situation around that you want to.

Sandra M. Michelle

#5. There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance

Joseph Addison

#6. I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself.

Elizabeth Fry

#7. You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user.

Tim Cook

#8. The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.

Rachel Holmes

#9. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will. (Romans 12:2)

Lysa TerKeurst

#10. I do not like your name, sir," she answered.
"There was no thought of pleasing you when I was christened." he quoted lazily.

Georgette Heyer

#11. The gospel produces not just obedience, you see, but a new kind of obedience3 - an obedience that is powered by desire. An obedience that is both pleasing to God and delightful to you.

J.D. Greear

#12. JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name?
ORLANDO: Yes, just.
JAQUES: I do not like her name.
ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.

William Shakespeare

#13. Don't let the fear of not pleasing someone stop you from being creative.

Wil Wheaton

#14. Pretty' doesn't mean 'good,' you know, Geneva. Real life isn't like fairy tales. 'Pretty' simply means that by accident you've got things arranged on your outside in an extra-pleasing manner. It doesn't tell a thing about your inside.

Natalie Babbitt

#15. If you do not smile, you are judged lacking in a 'pleasing personality' - and you need to have a pleasing personality if you want to sell your services, whether as a waitress, a salesman, or a physician.

Erich Fromm

#16. I liked that young man, did not you? There was something particularly pleasing about his manners, which I thought very easy and frank. He has an air of honest manliness, too, which, in these days of fribbles and counter-coxcombs, I own I find refreshing!

Georgette Heyer

#17. Friendship is not by force but by choice.
You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.

Stella Oladiran

#18. If you cannot give God glory for something, you should not do it. If a person is not fully persuaded that an activity is pleasing to God, then it is a sin: "whatsoever is not of faith is sin" (Romans 14:23)

Alan De Jager

#19. Pierce made a calculating noise, accidentally brushing my knee as he shifted. "As Jenks would say, you snore nice."
I smiled back unconvincingly. I snore nice. Not "I opine that your auditory nasal exhalations are most pleasing.

Kim Harrison

#20. Not allow this world to mold you in its own image. Instead, be transformed from the inside out by renewing your mind. As a result, you will be able to discern what God wills and whatever God finds good, pleasing, and complete.

Anonymous

#21. If you are too afraid to offend anyone, then I'm afraid you may not be able to do anything remarkable

Bernard Kelvin Clive

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

Jocelyn Murray

#23. Everybody is not going to like you. It's not about pleasing people all the time

Timi Nadela

#24. Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If you are not all these things, you will be allowed to dance in the privacy of your own living room. You just wouldn't dare to put yourself onstage.

Clive Barnes

#25. And when you learn, over the course of your life, that it's not about pleasing God, it's about learning how to trust God. That's a huge watershed, because trust is a whole different ballgame than appeasement or pleasing.

William P. Young

#26. Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you: let him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him.

Moses

#27. But there is something about pleasing your parents, even when you're grown up, even when you're almost middle-aged yourself. It never goes away, at least not for me.

Cynthia Swanson

#28. Tis true my form is something odd But blaming me is blaming God Could I create myself anew I would not fail in pleasing you. If I could reach from pole to pole Or grasp the ocean with a span I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the man.

Isaac Watts

#29. After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true

Leonard Nimoy

#30. 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

#31. Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.

Henry Fielding