Please Others Quotes

#1. You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

Anne Hathaway

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Those who glory in their looks - not in their hearts - dress to please others.

Clement Of Alexandria

#7. Changes made to please others are unrealistic, but more important, they're unfair to you.

Martina Navratilova

#8. Individuals are honest only to the extent that suits them (including their desire to please others)

Dan Ariely

#9. That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.

Ovid

#10. The more we try to please others, the more we become unhappy.

Raj Singh

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Trying to please others before pleasing God is inverting the first and second great commandments.

Lynn G. Robbins

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Say to yourself: 'Living essentially to please others is a monumental mistake.'

George Robinson

#17. 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

#18. When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.

Dave Pelzer

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Benjamin Franklin

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Whatever culture, whatever country, girls are taught to please others as opposed to pleasing themselves.

Eve Ensler

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.

Angie Stone

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. Let's face it. It's already hard being yourself, so why do we insist on adding pressure trying to please others.

Atlanta Hunter

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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.

#35. Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Marianne Moore

#36. 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

#37. A woman puts on a new dress eyeliner lip gloss to please others. A woman paints her toes to please herself. And if there was one thing I was familiar with it was pleasing ... There's no way to finish that sentence without embarrassing myself.

Molly Harper

#38. Goals and dreams are not purposed to please others. I'd rather be the jester who adds value to those around me than a King with no vision or intention of making a difference.

Janna Cachola

#39. Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.

Craig Groeschel

#40. 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

#41. I am not here to please myself so don't expect me to please others.

Amit Abraham

#42. The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives we will see that most of the time we do things just to please others, just to be accepted by others, rather than living our lives to please ourselves.

Miguel Ruiz

#43. In love, we are best pleased when we please others.

Norm MacDonald

#44. In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.

Epictetus

#45. Virtues should not be seen as a medium to please others, else, they'll always fall short. They should, first, be a medium of self-edification.

Ufuoma Apoki

#46. The greatest lesson I have learned in life is that I am enough simply because I have been given life. Growing up, I constantly found myself trying to please others because I wanted to be included and validated. I expended myself completely.

Grace Gealey

#47. When you're hounded by the shame of the past, you can turn into a pretty miserable person who is always trying to measure up and please others.

Ed Cyzewski

#48. 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

#49. Write what pleases you.
If you please others in the process it's a bonus.

Roy A. Higgins

#50. Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.

Benjamin Franklin

#51. Don't always deprive yourself trying to please others

Sunday Adelaja

#52. You should be a pleasing personality. Instead of thinking about how you should be pleased, I don't like this, I don't do like that, instead of, what have I done to please others?

Nirmala Srivastava

#53. Children who feel unloved and unprotected are like a half-filled cup. They become incapable of 'filling up' because they have come to believe they are unworthy of love. They try to please others, give to others, and care for others in a desperate hope that they may make themselves worthy.

Beverly Engel

#54. Do not try to please others by changing your beliefs. Your beliefs can be the force that can change the system.

Henry Johnson Jr

#55. Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase.

Guy Finley

#56. When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.

Marcel Proust

#57. I've lived most of my life trying to please others. I don't think I can do that anymore.

Debbie Macomber

#58. Having emotional independence means we are no longer tied to the need for constant approval and are, therefore, not coerced into doing more than we feel comfortable doing by our need to please others.

Sue Thoele

#59. "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

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. If you try to please everyone, you will please no one. It is impossible to lead your life for others' happiness.

Sudha Murty

#63. 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

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. The Lord blesses people who bless others, and He gives grace to those who focus on the things that please Him.

Billy Graham

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. If you feel that you can solve others problems, then please, work little more on your own problems and solve them first.

Honeya

#77. The increased desire to please God and seek HIS approval will decrease the desire to seek approval from man.

Yvonne Pierre

#78. 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

#79. In the end, the only one you can ever really please is yourself. How others feel is up to them.

Nicholas Sparks

#80. Lord ... please help us overcome our despair,
So we can help others overcome theirs.
Amen!

Timothy Pina

#81. 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

#82. Often we lose our identity trying to please or placate others.

Mary Manin Morrissey

#83. Writing is cathartic when you write to please yourself not others.

C.C. Wyatt

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.

Myrtle Reed

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. 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

#90. I'd been doing everything to please everyone else and some imaginary me.

Jolene Stockman

#91. 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

#92. The things which belong to others please us more, and that which is ours, is more pleasing to others

Publilius Syrus

#93. 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

#94. 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

#95. 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

#96. Whatever we do to please or harm others, we do to ourselves.

Marty Rubin

#97. 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

#98. 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

#99. 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

#100. 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