Top 48 Quotes About Pleasing Other People
#1. We become more devoted to pleasing other people than establishing a relationship with ourselves. We believe we are what we have and what we do and we believe we are what other people think we are. Ego is in many ways the primary cause of most of our misconception and woe.
Evan Sutter
#2. I think it's really important to follow your intuition and gut, and try not to do things just for the sake of pleasing other people.
Erin Davie
#3. The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.
Rachel Holmes
#4. It is a challenge trying not to give in to pleasing other people.
Kym Whitley
#5. We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don't waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be.
Paulo Coelho
#6. A chef and a restaurateur are different jobs: One is about pleasing people with what's on the plate; the other is about understanding the market. I'm a chef, but I think I'm a savvy businessperson, too.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
#7. A pleasing personality helps you win friends and influence people. Add character to that formula, and keep those friends and maintain that influence.
Zig Ziglar
#9. If 'pleasing the people' is the only criterion (of a 'big' leader), then going to war or pretending to go to war or simulating outrage and bad mouthing states you can do nothing about, is the playbook for you.
Khaled Ahmed
#10. If I were surrounded by people who always approved of me, I wouldn't need such a deep relationship with my own sense of right and wrong. And you know what that means? It means that other people's approval is actually a hindrance, more than a helper, when it comes to self-discovery.
Vironika Tugaleva
#11. The biggest mistake we commit in life is to think that others will get affected by our action and we shall leave some effect on them..
In this hope, we make others' reactions our priority and fail to perform the task we're supposed to do right at the moment.
Himmilicious
#12. Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent
Publilius Syrus
#13. Everybody is not going to like you. It's not about pleasing people all the time
Timi Nadela
#14. [N]othing is so pleasing to perplexed unhappy people as the denunciation of others,
H.G.Wells
#15. A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.
J.C. Ryle
#16. School typically doesn't prepare young people for real life - unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my opinion, that's why so many students who succeed in school fail in life.
Ray Dalio
#17. Beauty is a combination of qualities. I don't think one can deny that certain people or things feel aesthetically pleasing. But without an equally pleasing being behind that form, there is no beauty there.
Teri Hatcher
#18. The smiles of His Father are all the sweeter to Him, because His people share them. The honours of His kingdom are more pleasing, because His people appear with Him in glory.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#19. the two biggest hindrances to living the life God designed you to live: Wanting to be like others (envy), and wanting to be liked by others (people-pleasing.) These traps are subtle, but they distract and detour millions of people from the purposes they were created to fulfill.
Rick Warren
#20. Clothing creates the illusion that bodies fit an aesthetically pleasing norm. And that illusion depends on getting the fit right. Garments that bunch, pull, or sag call attention to figure flaws and often make people look worse than they would without clothes.
Virginia Postrel
#21. If you are too afraid to offend anyone, then I'm afraid you may not be able to do anything remarkable
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#22. A relationship based on people-pleasing is unbalanced and an unnecessary sacrifice of integrity, that will eventually break down.
Peter Shepherd
#23. People almost never look as bad on the outside as I do on the inside, but that's sort of nice because it reminds me that even when I'm having a bad hair day my ponytail is still more aesthetically pleasing than Gwyneth Paltrow's bile duct.
Jenny Lawson
#24. The fear and anxiety that infect humanity today are the results of this degradation of values, this ignorance of what is of significance and what is not, this want of faith in what the elders and sages have handed down as the wisdom of ages. People prefer what is pleasing to what is beneficial.
Sathya Sai Baba
#25. In our twenty first century social media world, people are so eager to have likes from friend on social media for what they do; their writings, images and videos but they are not so eager to have they like of God for what they do or refuse to do!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#26. Mixing with groups of people can be enjoyed, it is pleasing in a way that cannot be explained other than the temptation to become closer to one or the other.
Raymond Burr
#27. I assume the Spirit is always whispering, "Abba", to God's children, assuring them that they are safe in His care. And he is continually calling them to become what God saved them to be, solid people, indestructibly alive, hurting perhaps, but consumed with pleasing the Father.
Larry Crabb
#28. Be wary of the praise of men; don't let it pump you up unnecessarily and don't let it paralyze your progress
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#29. Luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people
Marc Jacobs
#30. If really good people who are deeply committed and who are thriving spiritually have to beat down the nature with which they seem to have been born and cut themselves off from the full realization of love, how can that be pleasing to God?
Andrew Solomon
#31. I realize I love crazy ladies. Of course I don't like to think of myself as one, but maybe I am, too. I dunno. I'm always drawn to them; I think it's because I'm attracted to people who aren't in the business of people-pleasing: saying what they really think, not passive-aggressive at all.
Michaela Watkins
#32. 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
#33. Do you mind even a little that you are still addicted to people-pleasing, and are still putting everyone else's needs and laundry and career ahead of your creative, spiritual life? Giving all your life force away, to "help" and impress. Well, your help is not helpful, and falls short.
Anne Lamott
#34. I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.
Margaret Atwood
#35. Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
Will Cuppy
#37. Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
Zadie Smith
#38. They reminded Ifemelu of television commercials, of people whose lives were lived always in flattering light, whose messes were still aesthetically pleasing.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#39. A crucified Savior is not well served by self-pleasing, self-indulging people.
R. Kent Hughes
#40. If a woman pushes to get the job done, if she's highly competent, if she focuses on results rather than on pleasing others, she's acting like a man. And if she acts like a man, people dislike her.
Sheryl Sandberg
#41. If history records good things about good people, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good; or if it records the evil of wicked people, the godly listener or reader is encouraged to avoid all that is sinful and bad, and to do what he knows to be good and pleasing to God.
Venerable Bede
#42. People were inevitably superficial and reacted differently to poison when it was aesthetically pleasing.
Taylor Stevens
#43. The increased desire to please God and seek HIS approval will decrease the desire to seek approval from man.
Yvonne Pierre
#44. my joy. That was a great day in my life! Your time is too valuable to worry about pleasing everyone else or making them happy. I know people who spend more time worrying about what others think about them than they do focusing on their own dreams and goals. You've got to get free from that.
Joel Osteen
#45. Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I'd do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.
Steve Martin
#46. Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have ... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.
Joshua Reynolds
#47. Being a king was not about pleasing people. It was about controlling them.
Elizabeth Chadwick
#48. The key to lasting happiness and real pleasure in this world is not found in seeking gratification, but in pleasing God. And while the Lord desires that we enjoy His gifts and the people to whom we are joined, He wants us to know that we were created first for His pleasure.
Francis Frangipane
