Quotes About Being Easily Pleased

#1. The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

Mark Nepo

#2. I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me.

Rita Rudner

#3. The novelists of the nineteeth century had all the luck. They had a huge and easily pleased public and the world they surveyed had every appearance of permanence.

Susan Ertz

#4. Is your company so small you have to do everything for yourself? Wait until you're so big that you can't. That's worse.

Michael Bloomberg

#5. Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.

C.S. Lewis

#6. Power is the only thing that anyone is really after.

Pittacus Lore

#7. It's very silly," she said, "but I go on with it in spite of myself. I'm afraid I'm too easily pleased; no novel is so silly I can't read it.

Henry James

#8. Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

Winston Churchill

#9. We are far too easily pleased.

John Piper

#10. As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it is for the most part believed only while it circulates in whispers, and when once it is openly told, is openly refuted.

Samuel Johnson

#11. It is not a bad thing to desire our own good. In fact, the great problem of human beings is that they are far too easily pleased. They don't seek pleasure with nearly the resolve and passion that they should. And so they settle for mud pies of appetite instead of infinite delight.

John Piper

#12. There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher; for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.

Oliver Goldsmith

#13. If anyone ever asked me what I had to complain about it would not have taken long to tell them. Maybe I was just easily pleased.

Len G. Murray

#14. I do believe we have to understand why reality turned out to be different than expectations and estimates. But you have more public service - certainly many of you - than I have ever had, and you recognize that this is not unusual.

David Kay

#15. How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.

Mark Haddon

#16. We need to be willing to chance failure in order to succeed.

Rachel Harris

#17. Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.

Agnes Smedley