Please Yourself Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.

O. Henry

#3. 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

#4. Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.

Raquel Welch

#5. I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today.

Iris Apfel

#6. Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.

Harlan Ellison

#7. If you can't please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not everyone is going to appreciate you for your efforts and deeds.

Anthony Liccione

#8. 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

#9. The best things about writing are the freedom to please yourself creatively, personal accomplishment and the journey of personal growth. The worst is that you alone own the criticism and blame.

Ron Houston

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

C.C. Wyatt

#11. None of us works entirely in a vacuum. Unless you are uncompromisingly working to please yourself you must think to whom your photography is directed and how is it likely to be received.

Michael Langford

#12. You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

Doris Lessing

#13. I think I will sit on it a little while longer," said the duck, "as I have sat so long already, a few days will be nothing." "Please yourself," said the old duck, and she went away.

Hans Christian Andersen

#14. You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in the end.

Noel Gallagher

#15. Then, you must fall each into your proper place. You'll do your business, and she, if she's worthy of you, will do hers; but it's your business to please yourself, and hers to please you.

Anne Bronte

#16. Women without men are usually nervous ... The important thing is to have a man, even if you just like him. Pleasing him, you will please yourself.

Sheilah Graham Westbrook

#17. I try to take it as it comes. I'm constantly trying to please myself. That's why I've basically realised now, that nothing else in the world matters at all, just please yourself and the people you love and that's it.

Dev Hynes

#18. As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you can't possibly please everyone.

Evangeline Lilly

#19. You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first.

Mark Lanegan

#20. You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

Pierce Brosnan

#21. You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.

Ricky Nelson

#22. Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.

Harlan Ellison

#23. I walked all around it [the Guggenheim Bilbao] and couldn't find one clear, clean shot. To make things worse, the weather was lousy. Nothing about this rang commercial money shot. In a situation like this there's only one thing to do: forget about pleasing editors, please yourself.

Robert Polidori

#24. You can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself.

Ricky Nelson

#25. Both of you think happiness is this thing you have to chase after, like a child with a shiny toy. It won't happen until you start finding ways to take care of other people instead of ways to please yourself.

Lisa Kleypas

#26. 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

#27. Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn't that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?

Gustave Flaubert

#28. Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

Iris Chang

#29. 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

#30. If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after 30 years you may please even your guru, but you must practice for many more years before you finally become a true artist-then you may please even God.

Ali Akbar Khan

#31. You dress to please yourself. If she doesn't like you for you, then you don't need her.' All of this would be fine if I knew exactly who me for me was.

Jennifer Niven

#32. When it comes to art you can't please everybody but if you please yourself then take pleasure in that.

Cise Star

#33. You can live life to please everyone or please yourself.

Katie McGarry

#34. You can please yourself without pleasuring yourself, but you cannot pleasure yourself without pleasing yourself.

Gabbo De La Parra

#35. If you want to be a well-paid copywriter, please your client. If you want to be an award-winning copywriter, please yourself. If you want to be a great copywriter, please your reader.

Steve Hayden

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

Benjamin Franklin

#37. But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.

Ayn Rand

#38. Please yourself, not others ... It must first work for you if it is ever to be useful to others.

Paul Laseau

#39. You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#40. You're hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can't make yourself content.

Emily Bronte

#41. Mister Vance, what a fine pleasure. Welcome to my home. Please, keep those quick fingers of yours to yourself though, sir." As

Pippa DaCosta

#42. 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

#43. And you plan to do this alone? You think a lot of yourself, don't you animal? (Stone)
Oh, punk, please. Believe me, when dealing with wusses like you who have to gang up on a kid to feel powerful, I don't need any help. (Fang)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#44. You can laugh, you can cry, you can express yourself, but please don't hurt each other!

Tommy Wiseau

#45. Follow your heart, darling, and please, please - try not to overthink things. Relax and enjoy yourself. You are so young, sweetheart. You have so much of life to experience yet, just let it happen. You deserve the best of everything.

E.L. James

#46. I am just a simple guy and I like when people enjoy themselves. I always say: you can laugh, you can cry, you can express yourself but please don't hurt each other. I really don't know, to be honest with you. I'm very impressed with everything that has happened.

Tommy Wiseau

#47. Please don't smile like that. Your heart is full of feelings that you've kept to yourself. Don't laugh as if you don't know anything.

Arina Tanemura

#48. I see when you doubt yourself, i feel your fear. please put down your burden and remember i am here. -your angels.

Nikki Rowe

#49. 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

#50. The person you need to please the most with your story is yourself.

Giuseppe Bianco

#51. I'm honor-bound not to struggle with this since you just retrieved it all by yourself. Please do me the courtesy of pretending this is hard for you as well.

C.J. Redwine

#52. I know none of this seems very believable. It probably doesn't even make sense. But for once in your life, please, I am asking you to trust me. Trust yourself.

Charles Yu

#53. Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#54. To anyone out there especially young people feeling like they don't fit in and will never be accepted, please know this, great things can happen when you have the courage to be yourself.

Michael Sam

#55. To all thinking about hurting yourself over your despair: it will get better if you allow it to ... it always does. Now please go out and find the help you need to get better!

Timothy Pina

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

Ovid

#57. 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

#58. Perhaps you like to torture yourself by trying on some jeans from a few years ago to see if you can button them. Clothes do not exist to humiliate their owners. Please do not force garments into performing psychological tasks for which they were not designed.

Tim Gunn

#59. Give me the goddamn names, Grace," Lucas said. "C'mon. Please. Talk to me. Save yourself." "Fuck you." - FORD CAME BACK, looked at Lucas, asked, "Get a name?" "Not unless it's 'Fuck you,'" Lucas said.

John Sandford

#60. I love you. Really, I do. Now love yourself more and each other a lot more. And please take care of this precious planet.

Alysia Reiner

#61. We are all colorless and invisible; until you color yourself love you will not be seen.
Please also check out my Book: Your True Needs

Anthony Sinclair

#62. It takes a rare person to care the same or more about you than themselves. So, until you find that person, please look after yourself.

Charles F. Glassman

#63. Ladies, please remember that every single picture you see in a magazine is airbrushed ... we do not look like that. Love yourself!

Jenna Dewan

#64. Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.

Alphonsus Liguori

#65. When you have done something that took courage and someone wants to share the joy you created for them by your actions, please give yourself permission to take the applause in whatever form it appears.

Amy Lisewski

#66. You can't please everyone, and you have to trust your instincts, and you have to do your work and throw yourself in there and trust your instincts, and just trust that you're doing a good job that I can be proud of as well.

Matt Ryan

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.

Nina LaCour

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

George Robinson

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

Nicholas Sparks

#72. Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

William Strunk Jr.

#73. If you're not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it's hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that's really not an ingredient for a happy life.

Anne Hathaway

#74. 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

#75. The only person who can pull you down is yourself. If you choose to pull yourself down, please don't complain.

Lamees Alhassar

#76. Please find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn't know about before. Then tell somebody else.

Matt Damon

#77. You will only be loved and respected if you love and respect yourself. Never try to please everyone; if you do, you will be respected by no one.

Paulo Coelho

#78. So, next time you go to post a comment or an update or share a link, ask yourself: is this going to add to the happiness in the world?

And if the answer's no, then please delete.

There's enough sadness in the world already. You don't need to add to it.

Zoe Sugg

#79. Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art.

Libba Bray

#80. Always be yourself, is generally good advice. Unless, you're mean and narcissistic; then please don't take that advice.

Charles F. Glassman

#81. If you're purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn't illuminate.

Werner Herzog

#82. You don't have anything to lose by standing up for yourself,' Nando said. 'But you can lose yourself by trying to please everyone.

Sydney Salter

#83. If you feel something calling you to dance or write or paint or sing, please refuse to worry about whether you're good enough. Just do it. Be generous. Offer a gift to the world that no one else can offer: yourself.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#84. 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

#85. Will you promise to keep this to yourself, to not tell anyone of what we are? By his words you'd think he was giving me a choice. Like I could say,no deal, honey bunch, I'm off to shout your secret from the rooftops, and he'd be like, oh no please don't do that. In
reality, he'd have to kill me.

L. H. Cosway

#86. That's when this warm feeling buzzes through you and you smile to yourself, knowing God's watching you, knowing that He knows you're trying to be strong to please Him.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#87. Every life is precious. Please treasure each and every day, the present, the moment, and yourself.

Ichigo Takano

#88. Hoe please. Stop trying to make yourself relevant. What's understood should never be explained." Bianca said as she walked off "Let go you guys.

Mercy B.

#89. 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

#90. If you're an educator, caregiver, or parent, and you find yourself unable to contain your anger with kids, please consider getting professional help. Excessive harshness, whether it's emotional or physical in nature, can cause lasting harm to children.

Laura L. Smith

#91. So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren't afraid? And then go do it.

Sheryl Sandberg

#92. People may tease you or please you, insult you or consult you, laugh at you or laugh with you. In the end, though, it's not about what people do to you or say about you that's most important, but how you treat yourself.

Charles F. Glassman

#93. It's a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please ... be selective.

Mandy Hale

#94. In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.

George Robinson

#95. You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can't.

Annie Leibovitz

#96. Unidentified hole, please shut it and inspect yourself. Continue to talk and you will be ignored.

Kevin Hearne

#97. Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#98. I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you never know your demographic fully. You only get into trouble if you try to please somebody you don't really understand.

Donald Miller

#99. I don't want to hurt you or anybody s just please forget about e. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.I never laughed as hard as I laughed with you but now not even the laughing feels good.

Nina LaCour

#100. 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