Top 100 Quotes About Pleasing
#1. On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.
Jean Stapleton
#2. his manner most pleasing and his voice deep and masculine. David stepped aside to allow Kathleen
Ellen Gable
#3. I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.
Lady Bird Johnson
#4. What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?
R.C. Sproul
#6. I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all. I like watching people, but I don't like talking to them, dealing with them, pleasing them, or offending them. I am tired.
Susan Sontag
#7. Life's much more pleasing when you don't have to spend all of your time thinking.
David Eddings
#8. A true friend cares more about what is right than about pleasing you.
Gary Chapman
#9. The dreams weren't as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true
Ann Brashares
#10. God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to his paternal care.
Benedict Joseph Labre
#11. When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.
Charles Churchill
#12. Will paint in pleasing colors." "How do you know which colors to use?" I asked. "There are instructions for each item on your workstation.
David Baldacci
#13. Winning one soul for JESUS CHRIST worth more than being famous in pleasing a sinful world
James C. Uwandu
#14. Since pleasing God is the first purpose of your life, your most important task is to discover how to do that. Figure out what will please Christ, and then do it. EPHESIANS 5:10 THE MESSAGE
Rick Warren
#15. I will always come with something that's aesthetically pleasing.
Justin Timberlake
#16. If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.
Mahatma Gandhi
#17. The bottom line is, painting, at its richest, is done best with no purpose whatsoever aside from pleasing the person making the art.
Charles Sovek
#18. Repentance is a thing that cannot be trifled with every day. Daily transgression and daily repentance is not that which is pleasing in the sight of God.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#19. One of the things pleasing in God's sight is that his people keep on drawing near to him forever and ever. And so he is working in us this very thing.
John Piper
#20. Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
Richard Steele
#21. I was anxious to please, even if I hated the recipient of my pleasing. My pleasee.
Marian Keyes
#22. If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.
Remy De Gourmont
#23. 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
#25. All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women. I
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#26. The gospel produces not just obedience, you see, but a new kind of obedience3 - an obedience that is powered by desire. An obedience that is both pleasing to God and delightful to you.
J.D. Greear
#27. Harley studied his erection, lightly running her fingers over the smooth skin. His cock jumped at her touch. It was a pretty penis, she had to say. Good length, pleasing circumference. Not too big, not too small ... the Goldilocks of cocks. Just right.
Erin McCarthy
#28. If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!
Charles Baudelaire
#29. It is not the pain that is pleasing to God, child. It is the soul's endurance in faith and hope and love in spite of bodily afflictions that pleases Heaven.
Walter Miller
#30. The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.
Michel De Montaigne
#31. If God doesn't answer the way you want, you still need to praise through. That is when it's most difficult to praise God, but that is also when our praise is most pure and most pleasing to God.
Mark Batterson
#32. A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r Lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff.
William Shakespeare
#34. 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
#35. When you don't have the pressure of pleasing someone else and do something because you love doing it, that's when the best works are born.
Vishwas Mudagal
#36. One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.
Katharine Whitehorn
#37. 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
#38. I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure they're all right, doing the right thing. Then, suddenly, you have to face up to what you want and be honest about it.
Emilia Fox
#39. To all, to each, a fair good-night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
Walter Scott
#40. Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. ROMANS 12:2 NLT
Various
#41. Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy ... If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor
however impertinent
would be more pleasing to Him than posturing.
Catherine Marshall
#43. 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
#44. There is something aesthetically pleasing about trading one engraving - and old map - for another - American money.
Sarah Vowell
#45. A stage set should not make a pretty picture of its own. The empty stage should look formal and pleasing, but should seem to be waiting for the action to complete it; it should not hold definite significance in itself.
G. Wilson Knight
#46. When you go through a process of #1 praying daily and staying in God's word #2 obey Him in the small decisions every day #3 ask advice from a number of spiritual counselors then you can step out peacefully knowing that pleasing God is all that matters. America was built on this attitude.
Mary Engelbreit
#47. There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.
Arthur Phillips
#48. Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.
Thomas A Kempis
#49. JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name?
ORLANDO: Yes, just.
JAQUES: I do not like her name.
ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.
William Shakespeare
#50. Don't go into the business of pleasing people. You can't please everybody. Simply do your best at what you do
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#51. Don't let the fear of not pleasing someone stop you from being creative.
Wil Wheaton
#52. Pleasing and appeasing our master and God at the same time was impossible.
Tehmina Durrani
#53. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
Alice Walker
#54. 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
#55. The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
Walter Savage Landor
#56. Father of mine, I abandon myself to you, make of me that which is pleasing to you. Whatever you might do to me, I thank you.
Charles De Foucauld
#57. A wife and a husband should be regarded as friends for the sake of Allaah. And that friendship is above material needs; each encouraging the other one to do good deeds, which are pleasing to Allaah.
Bilal Philips
#58. The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing to others.
Publilius Syrus
#59. The fire was silent, the little houses collapsing into the flames without complaint, flocks of sparks rising to the sky. At a distance it seemed beautiful, and I thought it was strange that powerful violence is often so pleasing to the eye ...
David Benioff
#60. It is a most repulsive quality, indeed,' said he. 'Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.'
'Not till the reserve ceases towards oneself; and then the attraction may be the greater.
Jane Austen
#61. That's the name of the game ... pleasing the customer. If we ever lose sight of that fact, we've lost the ball game.
Ray Kroc
#62. "With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart.
Alexander Pope
#63. 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
#64. God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.
Saint Augustine
#65. Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
Marianne Moore
#66. The a priori method is distinguished for its comfortable conclusions. It is the nature of the process to adopt whatever belief weare inclined to, and there are certain flatteries to the vanity of man which we all believe by nature, until we are awakened from our pleasing dream by rough facts.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#67. A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage.
[Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]
Ovid
#68. Nor was Mr. Bumble's gloom the only thing calculated to awaken a pleasing melancholy in the bosom of a spectator. There
Charles Dickens
#69. People whose minds are not strengthened for endurance are by no means always unintelligent. They simply have never stopped to think that the use of the mind for the purpose of growth is a necessary part of a God-pleasing lifestyle.
Gordon MacDonald
#70. We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our endeavors are exerted in consequence of our duty.
Samuel Johnson
#71. Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?
Marcus Aurelius
#72. Anyone who doesn't want you to be happy with who you are is an asshole. Fuck pleasing everyone else. You only live once. Who are you gonna do it for?
Dahlia Adler
#73. As a man, I've learned that there is nothing easier in married life than pleasing your wife with your cooking.
Robert Breault
#74. Even when others don't understand, masters recognize their allegiance is to a higher calling than pleasing the masses.
Jeff Goins
#75. One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.
Yoshida Kenko
#76. And when I stopped doing that and started thinking about what feels natural and what feels right to me and started pleasing myself, then it became good.
Terrence Howard
#77. Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!
Joseph Addison
#78. Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify.
Ovid
#79. Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.
Michel De Montaigne
#80. And no business can possibly equate happy workers (community) with profit (effectiveness). Happy workers are much more productive workers and hence contribute to profit, but no organization is formed for the idea of pleasing its employees.
Harvey Pekar
#81. I try to keep my closet organized by color and category so that it's not only aesthetically pleasing but practical as well - it really makes getting ready so much easier.
Aslaug Magnusdottir
#82. The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful as a dreamland, nothing worldly about it ... nothing to hang a fret or a worry upon.
Mark Twain
#83. It must be a prospect pleasing to God Himself to see His creation forever beautifying in His eyes, and drawing nearer Him by greater degrees of resemblance.
Joseph Addison
#84. That's all this job is, Daine," she explained. "Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better.
Tamora Pierce
#85. Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#86. Sometimes, in the course of long summer evenings, the friends would take a stroll together in the Wild Wood, now successfully tamed so far as they were concerned; and it was pleasing to see how respectfully they were greeted by the inhabitants, and how
Kenneth Grahame
#87. Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#88. Could a more perfect manufactured object than a tennis ball be imagined? Fuzzy and spherical, squeezable and bouncy, its stitching a pair of matching tongues, its voice on impact a pock in the most pleasing of registers. Dogs knew a good thing, dogs loved tennis balls, and so did she.
Jonathan Franzen
#89. He thought, I got wings on my eyes, and the thought was so odd and yet so pleasing to him that he felt suddenly that he was immensely special, that there could be no one like him in the world.
Deborah Treisman
#90. But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies - about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are - all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. - It is a regular thing
Jane Austen
#91. Long exercise, my friend, inures the mind; And what we once disliked we pleasing find.
Hesiod
#92. All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.
John Owen
#93. For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.
[Lat., Nam pro jucundis aptissima quaeque dabunt di,
Carior est illis homo quam sibi.]
Juvenal
#94. However, the path of God is unknown and deep are the waters. Often do we see what is pleasing, take a sudden turn of providence, that deprives even the most Godly of their happiness. We should not fear theses changes and trust that all things work for the greater good.
Nancy B. Brewer
#95. I was brought up to express myself only when asked to express myself, and then to do so in a way that's pleasing to hear. But I've always had a need to make my presence known. I was just sort of born that way, I guess. It's my natural tendency.
Patty Griffin
#96. I don't believe that raising my voice in song is going to be pleasing to a God who is sitting upstairs somewhere, waiting to be pleased.
Andrew Solomon
#97. 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
#98. Pierce made a calculating noise, accidentally brushing my knee as he shifted. "As Jenks would say, you snore nice."
I smiled back unconvincingly. I snore nice. Not "I opine that your auditory nasal exhalations are most pleasing.
Kim Harrison
#99. 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
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