Quotes About Trying To Please People

#1. If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.

Joel Osteen

#2. Why am I hopping around like some trained dog trying to please people I hate?

Suzanne Collins

#3. You are always trying to please people before you get to the public whenever you do anything that requires a corporate body to sanction it.

Rita Rudner

#4. Some people won't like me; that's just human nature. I battled with that for years, trying to please people, but now I haven't got time to win people over! I've got nappies to change!

Rebecca Ferguson

#5. As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.

Rosemary Mahoney

#6. Trying to please people or trying to conform must have been the most frustrating season I went through.

Carol Wambui Ngabura

#7. Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please other people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of God. (Gal. 1:10)

Holly Gerth

#8. I certainly want people to like my writing, but I know that if I write with the intention of trying to please people, the writing will not be good because it will not be authentic. So, ironically, I have to be willing to write something strange or unlovable in order to write anything truly good.

Amity Gaige

#9. I think people who don't have conflict in their lives are just trying to please people and not really living life to the fullest.

Hope Solo

#10. My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

Candace Parker

#11. You can't live your life trying to please people. You be courteous and you be respectful, but you've got to do things in the way that you want to do them.

Kip Moore

#12. If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#13. If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you're going to be much kinder to the people in your life.

Sarah McLachlan

#14. I'm not interested in trying to have people who might like other kinds of music follow me. I don't want to please them.

Johnny Marr

#15. We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do them good.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#16. You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just have to write stories you would want to read and hope that people like them.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

#17. When you're in your twenties, someone once wrote, you live to please other people. When you're in your thirties, you get tired of trying to please others, so you get miffed with them for making you worry about it. When you're in your forties, you realize nobody was thinking about you anyway.

John Ortberg Jr.

#18. I'd say for those people who don't feel like they fit in, I'd want them to ask themselves why they want to, who they are trying to please, and whether or not those people are worth it. You know what they say: 'If they don't want you, then they don't deserve to have you.'

Connor Paolo

#19. 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

#20. I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh new material into the field is if people go out and buy it.

Terri Windling

#21. I think the movies that don't try to please people are movies that you respect more in the end.

Michael Angarano

#22. For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people?

Denise Hunter

#23. I'm trying to please myself; certainly that's a big criterion ... though in a sense, I don't take images just for myself. I take images that I think other people will want to see. I don't take pictures to put in a box and hide them. I want as many people to see them as possible.

Mary Ellen Mark

#24. You cannot and should not try to please everyone. Make sure that the right people like you, and it will be expected that others will not. That's how the world works.

David Maister

#25. Don't always deprive yourself trying to please others

Sunday Adelaja

#26. It's pretty dangerous if you approach music trying to please other people.

Adam Anderson

#27. For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

Desmond Tutu

#28. I can't spend my life trying to please other people.

Paulo Coelho

#29. You'll never be happy if you're always trying to please other people's idea of what you should be." She

Autumn Jones Lake

#30. Trusted you ...
Jake Sully: continuing what he was saying - with you.
Neytiri: getting upset I trusted you
Jake Sully: trying to calm her Trust me now. Please.
Neytiri: You will never be one of The People

James Cameron

#31. Hazel, do you enjoy it?' I paused a second, trying to figure out if my response should be calibrated to please Augustus or his parents. 'Most of the people are really nice,' I finally said.

John Green

#32. I suppose it's natural to some people to please without trying, and others to always say and do the wrong thing in the wrong place.

Louisa May Alcott

#33. I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

Naomi Campbell

#34. Sunshine, if I ever disappear, please tell people that I ran after the Devil, trying to get my soul back.

April Genevieve Tucholke

#35. To try to please people is an endless chasing of one's own tail. That's not very satisfying, so we do what we like and that satisfies us. When it does work out, its a bonus, really.

Wayne Coyne

#36. In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.

Epictetus

#37. There are quite a lot of people asking for a painting so I'm not able to fulfil all their wishes. And this gives me a lot of freedom, because if I cannot please them at all I don't have to start to try.

Norbert Bisky

#38. If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I'd been gone in two weeks.

Phil McGraw

#39. Don't try to please everyone. There are countless people who don't want one, haven't heard of one or actively hate it. So what?

Seth

#40. My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.

Victoria Wood

#41. I live on a ranch in Texas and do my own thing. And I don't care what anyone has to say about it. My joke is that the only people I'm trying to please are myself and my fans, because they're the ones buying my records. And I have the best, most loyal fan base ever.

Kelly Clarkson

#42. If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.

Leo Tolstoy

#43. When you're playing live, those people who you're trying to please and reach, they're right there giving you feedback. And you don't get that feedback in the studio.

Allen Toussaint

#44. Stop caring what people think about you. People will always have their opinions. Don't worry about it. What you think about you (and what God thinks about you) is all that matters. You can never please everyone, so stop trying so hard to please people.

Lisa Bedrick

#45. 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