Top 100 Please Others Quotes
#1. You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.
Anne Hathaway
#2. "I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."
Samuel Johnson
#3. In this life, no matter what you do-you will never be able to satisfy everyone. So stay true to yourself and do you. Trying to please others, you will only end up angry and dissatisfied with life.
Redd
#4. As much as agreeable people may love us, they often hate conflict even more. Their desire to please others and preserve harmony makes them prone to backing down instead of sticking up for us. "Because
Adam M. Grant
#5. I suppose it's natural to some people to please without trying, and others to always say and do the wrong thing in the wrong place.
Louisa May Alcott
#6. We will not deal with men on any terms but ours - and our terms are a moral code which holds that man is an end in himself and not the means to any end of others. We do not seek to force our code upon them. They are free to believe what they please.
Ayn Rand
#7. 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
#8. One pays a price for innovation, and innovators, knowing this, are hardly conciliators: books are not written specifically to please others; they are written, like it or not, to please oneself.
Alexis Lykiard
#9. If you try to please everyone, you will please no one. It is impossible to lead your life for others' happiness.
Sudha Murty
#10. You can please some of the people some of the time, others you can please once in a while and still others you can't please any of the time, but if you only strive to please yourself all of the time, you have and are a problem.
Belva Rae Staples
#11. No one can please everyone. Your mental peace is more important. If you are in peace, then others around you will feel peace. So your best effort should be to work on yourself.
Baba Hari Dass
#12. Those who glory in their looks - not in their hearts - dress to please others.
Clement Of Alexandria
#13. Changes made to please others are unrealistic, but more important, they're unfair to you.
Martina Navratilova
#14. Please, for the love of all that is good:
Visit the countries you choose to defend, before you defend them.
Experience first hand the cultures you chose to defend, before you defend them.
Take part in the religions you tell others about, before you tell others about them.
Keith Hebner
#15. Its best to turn to no one, to seek to please no one, as if there were only oneself in the world. The pleasure of others is a by-product after all, and if ever the whispering voices are allowed to crowd out the one voice, the result is this ... a sort of high-pitched silliness, a terrible silliness.
Elizabeth Taylor
#16. Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in writing is to please those from whom others learn to be pleased.
Samuel Johnson
#17. Individuals are honest only to the extent that suits them (including their desire to please others)
Dan Ariely
#18. That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.
Ovid
#19. The world is a wonderful place. What goes around comes around. Please help others to the best of your ability. In the long run you may be helping yourself only.
Pravin Agarwal
#20. Many of us get many messages in our lives, or think we get them. As long as the message is regarding our own selves, go on doing what you please. But when it is in regard to our contact with and behavior to others, think a hundred times before you act upon it-and then you will be safe.
Swami Vivekananda
#21. The more we try to please others, the more we become unhappy.
Raj Singh
#22. I watch her with loving sadness as she dulls her shine to please others. Will this butterfly ever soar? Will she continue to pretend she can't fly? Her greatest life awaits this decision.
Steve Maraboli
#23. Being aware of our feelings sounds easy, but it's not because many of us spend our entire lives pushing feelings aside as we try to please others.
Sue Patton Thoele
#24. The Lord blesses people who bless others, and He gives grace to those who focus on the things that please Him.
Billy Graham
#25. Eventually I discovered for myself the utterly simple prescription for creativity; be intensely yourself. Don't try to be outstanding; don't try to be a success;don't try to do pictures for others to look at- just please yourself.
Ralph Steiner
#26. Others may do as they please, but as for me,' he concluded ferociously, 'I shall never disclose to anybody that an acrobat, a trained bear of the magazines, a juggler of comic paragraphs, is not a priceless pearl of art and philosophy.
Stephen Crane
#27. I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please.
John Wayne
#28. Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart
#29. Trying to please others before pleasing God is inverting the first and second great commandments.
Lynn G. Robbins
#30. You don't need the White House to please people. You can be 24, earning $22,000 a year, and have people over to your tiny apartment. It's all about sharing and thinking about what will make others happy.
Letitia Baldrige
#31. Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.
Charles Caleb Colton
#32. If you feel that you can solve others problems, then please, work little more on your own problems and solve them first.
Honeya
#33. Don't try to please others at the expense of your values and your integrity. At the end of the day, you want to like yourself when you look in a mirror.
Millen Livis
#34. The increased desire to please God and seek HIS approval will decrease the desire to seek approval from man.
Yvonne Pierre
#35. If you wish to please me, and to bring success and honour to yourself, do right and study, because others will help you if you help yourself.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#36. Say to yourself: 'Living essentially to please others is a monumental mistake.'
George Robinson
#37. In the end, the only one you can ever really please is yourself. How others feel is up to them.
Nicholas Sparks
#38. Compromise to please others is not as good as integrity that annoys others. Rather than be praised without being good, it is better to be slandered without being bad.
Zicheng Hong
#39. Lord ... please help us overcome our despair,
So we can help others overcome theirs.
Amen!
Timothy Pina
#40. Love your sport. Never do it to please someone else; it has to be yours. That is all that will justify the hard work. Compete against yourself, not others, for that is who is truly your best competition.
Peggy Fleming
#41. When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.
Dave Pelzer
#43. Writing is cathartic when you write to please yourself not others.
C.C. Wyatt
#44. I don't know all the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone. Being controlled by the opinions of others is a guaranteed way to miss God's purposes for your life.
Rick Warren
#45. The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.
Bell Hooks
#46. May I fly with angels and sing with angels and know the angels in myself and others Henceforth and forever as You have promised. Please hold my hand. Please take me home. Please move me forward. Thank You, Lord. Amen.
Marianne Williamson
#47. Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.
Myrtle Reed
#48. There's One Person above all others who desires an extraordinary life for you. He is a Father who delights, like any good father, in the achievements and happiness of His children. His name is God! And nothing will please Him more than seeing you reach your highest potential.
John Bevere
#49. When the good student chooses the honest path, free of perfectionism and faking, music study becomes something refreshingly new: a calm oasis of self-acceptance for those who are so used to driving themselves and trying to please others.
William Westney
#50. There really is something neurotic about Christians who spend most of their time trying desperately to please a God who is already very pleased. They don't have any freedom, and they sometimes take away the freedom of others.
Steve Brown
#51. For a long time, I've distinguished between entertainer and performer and entertainer and artist. To me, an entertainer is someone who pleases others, and an artist tries to please himself.
George Carlin
#52. I'd been doing everything to please everyone else and some imaginary me.
Jolene Stockman
#53. The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#54. Those who enter to buy, support me. Those who come to flatter, please me. Those who complain, teach me how I may please others so that more will come. Those only hurt me who are displeased but do not complain. They refuse me permission to correct my errors and thus improve my service.
Marshall Field
#56. Don't live to please others. Don't think everyone else knows what's right or true. Listen to yourself, and be true to yourself. That way, no matter what else happens in life, you will always have your self-respect.
Jane Porter
#57. The things which belong to others please us more, and that which is ours, is more pleasing to others
Publilius Syrus
#58. Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation.
Samuel Johnson
#59. Don't make excuses for your mistakes.
Don't try to please your enemies.
Don't run from your responsibilities.
Don't force your opinions on others.
Don't complain about things you can change.
Don't compare yourself to anyone.
Don't let undeserving people into your life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#60. Life's too short to spend it trying to keep others happy. You can't please everyone. To fulfill your destiny, stay true to your heart.
Joel Osteen
#61. Whatever we do to please or harm others, we do to ourselves.
Marty Rubin
#62. The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone.
Edwin Louis Cole
#63. In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good.
Plato
#64. It's easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.
Robert Kiyosaki
#65. Oh God, please find it within your heart to grant me a heart that looks after itself only because it has first looked after others. And help me to realize that anything less is not a heart.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#66. Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about [the goto statement]. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are making a religion out of it, as if the conceptual problems of programming could be solved by a single trick, by a simple form of coding discipline!
Edsger Dijkstra
#67. In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.
George Robinson
#68. Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
Lord Chesterfield
#69. Whatever culture, whatever country, girls are taught to please others as opposed to pleasing themselves.
Eve Ensler
#70. May our eyes focus rightly on Christ ... before the need to please others, before church, and before the busyness of Christian life. Those things will surely have their place, but they will be most valuable if put in their proper position.
Traci LaRussa
#71. Some may see the things I do as being odd. That's ok because I know some of Gods plan for me. It works out in the end. I'm not here to please others. I'm here for Him.
Amanda Penland
#72. It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.
Angie Stone
#73. Good girls don't hurt other people's feelings. Good girls are not overly aggressive, competitive, or boastful. Good girls please others. But what good girls are good for is another question.
Susan Jane Gilman
#74. In trying to please all, he had pleased none.
Aesop
#75. Father, You are calling upon me to be completely humble and gentle; to be patient, bearing with others in love. (Eph. 4:2) Please empower me with Your Spirit to be obedient to this command.
Beth Moore
#76. Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.
Arthur Frederick Saunders
#77. Let's face it. It's already hard being yourself, so why do we insist on adding pressure trying to please others.
Atlanta Hunter
#78. Dear Lord, I struggle caring too much about the opinions of others. I beg You to please whisper words of truth into my heart and mind today. Protect me from both the bad and good opinions of others as I am reminded that only Your opinion counts. In Jesus' name. Amen.
Lysa TerKeurst
#79. Live to please the others, and everyone will love you, except yourself.
Paulo Coelho
#80. To be great at something, you must look to the great ones of the
past and improve on the ideas and techniques that they started. I
was motivated to do better - to improve on the ideas of others.
Scott Douglas
#81. I'll be blasted', he said, 'if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, I'll write, from this day forward, to please myself
Virginia Woolf
#82. When you're constantly thinking of others and what they must be thinking or feeling or expecting, you wind up in this perpetual state of trying to please them. You see yourself through their eyes and you lose sight of who you are.
Michael Soll
#83. His eyes searched hers. I'd rather just be me. Feel comfortable in my own skin and be able to speak my mind without having to carry a damned thesaurus. Sure doesn't seem worth giving up who you are to please others. Far as I'm concerned, they either like me or they don't. Their choice.
Leah Braemel
#84. If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you're going to be much kinder to the people in your life.
Sarah McLachlan
#85. Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
Pythagoras
#86. When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.
Joyce Meyer
#87. There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#88. Most people have no idea why others do what they do..
The whole World from their own little mind decide 'what' it is..
Sad when reasonably intelligible people continue to judge & judge..
7.2 billion people under the Sun, how many can one please???
Therefore....
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#89. Love does not seek to please itself, but offers itself and its life to others.
Frederick Lenz
#90. When a person is in a miserable situation, then, yes, it is difficult to develop genuine compassion toward others. That's why I find it difficult to say to poor people, "Please have compassion toward millionaires." That's not easy.
Dalai Lama
#91. When you're in your twenties, someone once wrote, you live to please other people. When you're in your thirties, you get tired of trying to please others, so you get miffed with them for making you worry about it. When you're in your forties, you realize nobody was thinking about you anyway.
John Ortberg Jr.
#92. Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.
Paulo Coelho
#93. An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.
Artie Shaw
#94. This truth, that I have to please only God, is an important key to becoming resistant to being manipulated by disapproval from others.
Rick Warren
#95. Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.
Andrea Bocelli
#96. And the person who says that the only way to please them is to restrict options for others is, if you ask me, the one who deserves it least. And that's my opinion, expressed as politely as possible.
David Gaider
#97. Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
Marianne Moore
#98. I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.
Tori Amos
#99. Don't go into the business of pleasing people. You can't please everybody. Simply do your best at what you do
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#100. In my heart, I know that marriage equality for every human being isn't a question of if, but only a matter of when. I ask those who feel that giving freedom to others somehow binds you, to please take a good look at what you are standing behind
Russell Simmons
