Top 64 Quotes About Pleasing Others
#1. Don't conform for the sake of pleasing others. Mold yourself into the person that you want to be.
Dr. Seuss
#2. 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
#3. This is the kind of world I was born in, one in which I had only one reason for existence: pleasing others.
Mickey Rooney
#4. Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority.
Shakti Gawain
#5. Spending time and energy on pleasing others is like a hole in a balloon; soon all the air is gone and all that's left is a shell. HS/el
Evinda Lepins
#6. I survive mainly by pleasing others. You do that to get out. To get out you figure out what they want you to say and then you say it with as much skill and originality as possible and then, if they're convinced, you get out.
Robert M. Pirsig
#7. I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying for them; they were grateful, they had to be; and they could no longer see me as a failure.
Hanif Kureishi
#8. When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be able to make us miserable or dissatisfied. And then, if we know we have pleased God, contentment will be our consolation.
Kay Arthur
#9. 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
#10. A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful, they decide against him.
Lord Chesterfield
#11. The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease.
Bernie Siegel
#12. Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.
Baltasar Gracian
#13. Be happy. Be yourself. If others don't like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn't about pleasing everybody.
John Spence
#14. Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
Diogenes
#15. I am not here to please myself so don't expect me to please others.
Amit Abraham
#16. I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)
Eve Ensler
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Don't go into the business of pleasing people. You can't please everybody. Simply do your best at what you do
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#20. The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing to others.
Publilius Syrus
#21. People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in them a pleasant propensity toward the lesser sins, a pleasing readiness also to admit the possibility that on occasion they may be in the wrong
they may be mistaken.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
#22. Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
Marianne Moore
#23. Even when others don't understand, masters recognize their allegiance is to a higher calling than pleasing the masses.
Jeff Goins
#25. 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
#26. To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.
Criss Jami
#27. I can't compete for likes and follows, I won't win. What I will do is pour out my heart and allow love to reach those that need it.
E'yen A. Gardner
#28. 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
#29. Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
Samuel Johnson
#30. If you see me standing on my head, I'm trying to cheer you up with my frown. I need my honesty, you my pleasantry.
Brian Spellman
#31. No, no, don't let my vulnerable heart share in this sacrifice to lust! Let him disgust me before pleasing me! Let him be what others have been, an instrument that I can break before becoming the echoes of its vibration.
Rachilde
#32. Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.
Benjamin Franklin
#33. Don't always deprive yourself trying to please others
Sunday Adelaja
#34. There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of others.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. Our work is to devote our own lives to pleasing God. It's that simple. We're to devote our efforts to learning to think as God thinks, to see ourselves and others through his eyes, to walk as he walked. That's our life's work.
Francine Rivers
#38. Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.
Edward Abbey
#40. 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
#42. Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious.
Norm MacDonald
#43. Trying to please others before pleasing God is inverting the first and second great commandments.
Lynn G. Robbins
#44. The increased desire to please God and seek HIS approval will decrease the desire to seek approval from man.
Yvonne Pierre
#45. 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
#46. Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.
Jules De Goncourt
#47. To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.
Richard Steele
#48. 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
#49. You must do everything you can to make your appearance pleasing, but the minute you walk out the door, forget yourself and start concentrating on others.
Susan W. Tanner
#51. A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#52. 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
#53. I'd been doing everything to please everyone else and some imaginary me.
Jolene Stockman
#54. The things which belong to others please us more, and that which is ours, is more pleasing to others
Publilius Syrus
#55. 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
#56. The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for divination is a mark of the good opinion we have of others, and nothing flatters their self-love more.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#57. The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.
William Hazlitt
#58. In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.
George Robinson
#59. Whatever culture, whatever country, girls are taught to please others as opposed to pleasing themselves.
Eve Ensler
#60. [N]othing is so pleasing to perplexed unhappy people as the denunciation of others,
H.G.Wells
#61. The prayer most pleasing to God is that made for others and particularly for the poor souls. Pray for them, if you want your prayers to bring high interest.
Anne Catherine Emmerich
#62. While being you and truly sharing what you do will bring happiness to others, you won't find contentment merely trying to keep others happy.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#63. If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself
Jocelyn Murray
#64. In trying to please all, he had pleased none.
Aesop
