Top 86 Please Everybody Quotes
#1. When I write to please everybody, it falls flat. When I write what I know, fearlessly, It won't please everybody, but it doesn't fall flat.
Ronald P. Chavez
#2. Do yourself a favor; don't wear yourself out trying to please everybody. Your time is too valuable.
Joel Osteen
#3. You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time.
Mike Quade
#4. Don't go into the business of pleasing people. You can't please everybody. Simply do your best at what you do
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#5. You can't please everybody, man,
Beck
#6. You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
Nas
#7. I don't expect everybody to like me. If you try to please everybody, by changing your position and your personality, every time you do that you lose a little bit of yourself.
Nancy Grace
#8. There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship.
J. Christopher Herold
#9. When it comes to art you can't please everybody but if you please yourself then take pleasure in that.
Cise Star
#10. Look, you know, you can't please everybody. I'm a stand-up comic. I know that. It doesn't matter how funny you are and how well you do, there's two people that are going to walk out of there hating you.
Billy Gardell
#11. If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.
Donald Rumsfeld
#12. I don't really care what others think of me. You're not going to please everybody. I care what I think and what my children and my husband thinks.
Lisa Vanderpump
#13. I always say, when you're onstage you can't please everybody. I'm sure there are people who may not take to what I do, but that's okay. Thank God the majority are in my corner.
Don Rickles
#14. I know there isn't anything I can do that will please everybody. But if I have done according to my beliefs, I sleep very very well.
Corazon Aquino
#15. I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope
#16. I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.
Kevin Costner
#17. I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#18. Anytime you take a book and make it into a movie, you're going to have people who have their version of it in their minds and whatnot. You can't please everybody.
Josh Hutcherson
#19. A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him.
William Kunstler
#20. I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
Herbert Bayard Swope
#21. You can't please everybody, Microsoft. So stop trying.
Paul Thurrott
#22. As an artist, you do understand you're never going to please everybody.
Paul Emsley
#23. I can't please everybody and I don't try to. If I can please myself that's enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.
Todd Solondz
#24. Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.
John Lennon
#25. No matter what you do, at the end of the day you can't please everybody. I'm not hear to please.
Britney Spears
#26. I wish somebody would have told me, 'Don't try too hard,' because when I was younger I wanted to try really hard. I wanted to please everybody and be this perfect, polite little girl.
Taylor Spreitler
#27. Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.
Marge Piercy
#28. You can't please everybody. All you can do is really just try to work from the heart and do the best job that you can and hope for the best.
Jackie Earle Haley
#29. Cooking at home is easier than cooking in the restaurant because you don't have to write a menu or try to please everybody.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
#30. Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
Vaughn Monroe
#32. 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
#33. It's like that old saying: You can't please anybody, so you might as well be alone. (Actually, I don't think that's the saying. I think it's actually, You can't please everybody, so you might as well just please yourself. Whatever. They're both exhausting.)
Jen Cross
#34. I don't want to please everybody. I'd get a little worried if I did something and everybody was pleased with it.
Walt Disney
#36. People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
Kanye West
#37. I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.
Lauryn Hill
#39. Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.
John Vianney
#40. I do my best to please everybody, far more than they'd ever guess. I try to laugh it all off, because I don't want to let them see my trouble.
Anne Frank
#41. The key to leadership is having a vision, and being strong enough to say no and not try to please everybody. Thats a recipe for failure. Leadership is practiced through attitude and actions, rather than words and memos.
Matt Mickiewicz
#42. I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
#44. You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia.
Anatoly Chubais
#45. He wish'd to please everybody; and, having little to give, he gave expectations.
Benjamin Franklin
#46. I know I'm not gonna please everybody when I make a record. I don't let that affect any of my decisions.
Jason Aldean
#47. If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.
Brendan O'Carroll
#48. You can't please everybody. There's that old saying that there's no sure formula for success, but the only sure fire formula for failure is to try to please everyone. You're not going to do that.
Matt Bomer
#49. You're not really free until you're free from trying to please everybody.
Joel Osteen
#50. To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.
George Washington
#51. You can't please everybody. I give up. I'm not trying to. I don't care. Leave me alone with that.
Estelle
#52. You have to build your credentials as a candidate, not just as a woman. You also have to be willing to exercise power. We've been educated to be mothers, peacemakers, but we must learn that we can't please everybody.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#53. I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.
Paula Radcliffe
#54. You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.
Ben Gibbard
#55. Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody.
Ethan Canin
#56. So, this is to everybody who's ever had a struggle in life being yourself. I think that the most beautiful thing a human being can do is just be who you are inside. So please, everybody, just be yourselves and encourage everyone else to do the same.
Josh Hutcherson
#57. Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.
Aesop
#58. I didn't know the word no, because I wanted to please everybody all the time. Every kid does.
Kristy McNichol
#59. You will never please everybody. Some men will say you have gone too far. Other men will say you haven't gone far enough. I just compromise and say I won't please anybody.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#60. It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
Publilius Syrus
#61. I don't know what my expectations are. It's like the word 'potential.' Those two words don't mean a whole lot to me. We can't please everybody. Certainly, we have to please ourselves first.
Jimy Williams
#62. I met some fans who said, 'Please start Twittering!' They even walked me through it, but I'm terrible at it. I'm so bad at keeping it up. I forget how to use it. And I'm not very savvy: I try to send a private message, and it goes out to everybody.
Jim Parrack
#63. Richard Burton rang me up once and said, Do you know you're my only leading lady I've never slept with? I said, Well, please don't tell everybody, it's the worst image.
Julie Andrews
#64. Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it.
Reggie Jackson
#65. Everybody that listens to something hears it differently from their own perspective. And you can't please everyone. Don't even try. Please yourself first and then try to please those people around you that you feel know what you're doing.
Buddy DeFranco
#66. Please don't get me wrong here. I'm not making fun of old people. In fact I think that's the goal of everybody here tonite. We all want to be an old person someday.
Jeff Foxworthy
#67. It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
Walter Kerr
#69. Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: "I'll do as I please at everybody else's expense." An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man - his own and those of others.
Ayn Rand
#70. My new story collection won't please everyone, nor was it meant to. Then again, not everybody lives in my world. If they did, I'd have to move out and find another world to write about.
Ted Gargiulo
#71. Everybody dies. There's no avoiding it, and I do not believe for one second that butter is the cause of anyone's death. Overeating may be, but not butter, please. I just feel bad for people who make that mistake.
Nora Ephron
#72. Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.
Samuel Johnson
#73. After my episode of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' ran, Larry David and JJ Abrams were like, 'I discovered her,' but I was like 'Hold up. Please. I'm from 'Next Friday.' Everybody knows me!'
Kym Whitley
#74. Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.
Rene Descartes
#75. There were times when I purposely didn't go to school because of Pearl Harbor Day, because certainly there was enough media about it every year to remind everybody. So when I heard they were going to make the movie, I thought, "Oh, no, please not another Pearl Harbor mention!"
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
#76. They started the meeting out by saying, "Everybody please take your seats"
I was halfway back to my cubicle with mine before they stopped me ...
Neil Leckman
#77. Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations.
Mario Monti
#78. I turned, ran, fired the shotgun into the air and shouted, "Bomb! There's a bomb in the fountain! Everybody run for your lives! Please don't not panic!
David Wong
#79. I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we'd think: Oh, please Lord, don't make us go through that.
Paul Reiser
#80. Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.
Jim Henson
#81. Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.
Glenn Beck
#82. Everybody, will you please just sit for a minute?
Like children in a game of musical chairs, Tommy's three guests immediately reach for the nearest chair, pull it out from the table, and sit---even her brother. Well, says Tommy. Something in my life goes according to plan.
Julia Glass
#83. We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.
Adolf Hitler
#84. I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with all my heart,if we are talking about me, since we are talking about me,please resist blasting the trumpet during my visitand resign yourselves to my quiet absence.
Pablo Neruda
#85. The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#86. It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.
Jean Reno