Top 100 To Impress Quotes
#1. You are not free until you have no need to impress anybody.
Joyce Meyer
#2. When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening ... I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.
Kathleen Norris
#3. Stop trying to impress people with your clothes and impress them with your life.
Richard J. Foster
#4. It has never been my goal to impress anyone but myself. That has proven challenging enough.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#5. You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
Daniel Craig
#6. To the eternal "Opinions are like assholes - everybody's got one," I just say, "Yeah, but not everybody's got ten thousand of them." It distresses me that the wit of this riposte so often fails to impress the asshole I'm talking to.
Robert Christgau
#7. Actually Gabriel's an archangel," I corrected. "But otherwise, yes."
"Well, that explains why he's so hard to impress," said Xavier flippantly
Alexandra Adornetto
#9. I think sometimes I write to impress my influences. Whether they're actually acquaintances of mine, people that I think will hear the record or not, I still write - not to imitate my influences - but to write something that would live up to their standards.
Jason Isbell
#10. As a filmmaker you have to keep asking yourself the question are we really going to impress them [audience] either by the wow factor, the intelligence factor, the I didn't see that coming factor?
Lorenzo Di Bonaventura
#11. I should take my shoe off my sweaty foot and shake it around to impress this guy.
Mimi Strong
#12. Good thing I was covered in chicken drippings, frosting and powdered cheese. I always did know how to impress a man.
Lola Dodge
#13. The good thing about people underestimating models is that the bar is set so low, you tend to impress people more easily.
Cindy Crawford
#14. Too many people are buying things they can't afford, with money that they don't have ... to impress people that they don't like!"
Nothing to do w/ "books"
Just like the quote!
Will Smith
#15. Trying to impress others does - usually in quite the opposite way.
Malcolm Forbes
#16. Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.
Will Rogers
#17. When I first met my girlfriend, I was super intimidated. I wanted to impress her. I was thinking, Don't mess this up, man. You've gotta play your cards exactly right.
Henry Cavill
#18. Cause when a guy does something stupid once, well that's because he's a guy. But if he does the same stupid thing twice, that's usually to impress some girl.
Dr. Seuss
#19. With 300 million people in America, you can fail to impress 299 million of them and still go platinum.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#20. Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making of water into wine, wine to blood, - when they want to impress us with their "science"?
Karlheinz Deschner
#21. To be able to impress, you have to get to this middle ground where you're not too advanced so it goes over people's heads, and you're not too minimalist where people think you're just trying to rob the game and not stretch out.
DJ Quik
#22. The great part about getting older is you realize that you don't have to impress anyone else.
Ruth Cardello
#25. The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.
Pope Leo XIII
#26. Few kids seek to learn a skill specifically designed to impress people unless they feel less than impressive themselves.
Derren Brown
#27. It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.
Nigella Lawson
#28. There is no such thing as cool--follow your enthusiasms honestly. The few records you ever bought to impress stay in their sleeves...
Except for the Stone Roses' first one Ooooh lovely.
Joseph Galliano
#29. Keep a vigil on those who push you down always and leave them alone. Stay away from them so that you don't waste your precious time refuting them, trying to impress them or proving your point to them. Let them not occupy any free space in your mind.
Sanchita Pandey
#30. I'd waited for this opportunity with Claudia for a long time - ever since elementary school when I tried to impress her on the monkey bars and woo her with my crayon drawings. But I couldn't have been with her any sooner. You can't expect someone to love a shadow.
Suzanne McKenna Link
#31. So guys who are otherwise sensitive and thoughtful say and do ridiculously dumb things to impress other guys. It's an enormous performance, but guys know that if they fail, they'll be ridiculed as sissies mercilessly.
Michael Kimmel
#32. I'm glad I'm not a woman trying to impress the opposite sex, Luke grunted. Kate shot him a quizzical look. Luke responded with one of his incongruous grins.
Maggie Brendan
#33. It's one thing to impress people, but it's another to love them.
Donald Miller
#34. My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress their online friends, and once you have fashioned that identity, there is very little reason to actually do anything else.
Evgeny Morozov
#35. But there was nothing in the world that could turn me away from him. He could have murdered babies and laughed gleefully while he did it, and I would still have killed myself trying to impress him.
B.R. Sanders
#36. Everyone is trying to impress everyone else. Trying to make themselves out to be smarter or more confident than they actually are.
Marissa Meyer
#37. There was no pretention here, no hidden meanings in the phrases they spoke, no elaborate plans designed to impress the other. Though it had always been easy to spend time with Mike, she suddenly realized that in the whirlwind of the past couple of weeks, she'd almost forgot how much she enjoyed it.
Nicholas Sparks
#38. The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.
Marie De France
#39. He'd use this opportunity to impress Rick and show him that he did, in fact, have more to offer than just being a sexy skanktart. To show that he wasn't just a brainless bimfoon, that's when a bimbo breeds with a buffoon, resulting in a true, hot mess.
Kyle Adams
#40. With your silhouette when the sunlight dims
Into your eyes where the moonlight swims,
And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns,
Who among them would try to impress you?
-Bob Dylan, "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" (1966)
Bob Dylan
#41. There are much more important things than a man going to the gym. Of course they have to take care of themselves on a certain level, but it's not essential. I think men do it more to impress other men.
Stephanie Sigman
#42. His enthusiasm was exhausting and charming at the same time. He wanted to impress her, so she resolved to be impressed. It was a small enough thing to give someone.
James S.A. Corey
#43. The measure of self-assurance is how deeply and sincerely interested you are in others; the measure of insecurity is how much you try to impress them with you.
Mark Goulston
#44. Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.
Mignon McLaughlin
#45. She is ... " Death turned her head, considering. "She is like a party dress I wear when I want to impress visiting dignitaries. Like your friend Betsy, I too am a Terrible Engine. I too have occasional need of awe. But between us, I think, there is no need of finery.
Catherynne M Valente
#46. I am trying to impress myself. I have yet to do it.
Shia Labeouf
#47. Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers - which is why almost no technology ever works.
John Cleese
#49. Don't do things or act out your posture and gestures to impress people, just be yourself and portray the confident 'you' with that high self-esteem. So relax because you are 'you'. Be sincere, be authentic. That will be impressive enough.
Archibald Marwizi
#50. Want to impress others? Talk about your successes. Want to impact others? Talk about your failures.
John C. Maxwell
#51. It just shows that you may make a great stir in the world and yet sadly fail to impress the members of your own family.
W. Somerset Maugham
#52. I don't know what a guy needs to do to impress a girl these days.
Jeff Kinney
#53. To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
William Hazlitt
#54. Any man deserving of your notice will need nothing to impress him but that you should be yourself, and any man deserving of your love will see you as you truly are, and love you notwithstanding.
Susanna Kearsley
#55. The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.
Aaron Patzer
#56. If I can score goals, then why not, I think the fans will love to see that. I have a big career looking ahead and I want to impress.
Royston Drenthe
#57. The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them.
Laozi
#58. I made the school team, and when I won in a match against another school it was the greatest moment of my life even greater than the European titles. In those school races, I always ran my legs off. There were girls watching and I wanted to impress them. I was foaming and vomiting, but I won
Juha Vaatainen
#59. I crave the sweet surrender of sleep and my dreams' uncensored communication: no tiresome small talk, sucking up to impress, or tiptoeing around charged topics. Dreams are the naked truth; get ready for it.
Judith Orloff
#60. To protect one's own statement is the greatest form of violence. To impress upon others that his statement is correct is a form of violence itself.
Dada Bhagwan
#61. What's the point of changing who you are in order to impress a woman, when your intention is to return to who you were, a person she was never attracted to in the first place?
Richelle E. Goodrich
#62. If you believe you're good already, you don't need to do extra stuff to impress us. Your best work comes when you're absorbed; because then your ego is away.
Keith Johnstone
#63. I think everyone is most confident when they are just being themselves and not trying to impress others.
Bethany Mota
#64. Remember: In the end, you're not living to impress your friends or your relatives or your coworkers. All of life is for Jesus.
Chris Tomlin
#65. People lie because they wish to impress those around them. I seek to impress no one. You would be wise to remember that.
Gena Showalter
#66. I'm horrified most of the time. I wish it was more complicated, but at the same time, each time I try to complicate it I hate it because I hate the idea of writing to impress.
Lou Doillon
#67. Some of the best motivation in life is trying to impress a girl.
Tom Brady
#68. If the church is to impress the world with the deathless hope of the everlasting Gospel, she must be animated by that hope herself.
Frank W. Boreham
#69. I don't want to impress, I want to inspire.
Keith Urban
#70. One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
Dale Carnegie
#71. MY MOUTH OPENED.
Way to go, Clare. Way to impress the mother of a prospective boyfriend. Moms love their boys to date psycho overprotective girls.
Kim Harrington
#72. We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood.
A.W. Tozer
#73. If someone has an ability to impress an audience there's a tendency to be tempted into doing just that.
Michael Sheen
#74. When the ancients said a work well begun was half done, they meant to impress the importance of always endeavoring to make a good beginning.
Polybius
#75. When I was in middle school, I tried to impress this girl by jumping over this ledge on a scooter. I caught the edge of the ledge and totally fell right in front of her. I never talked to her again. So [my advice is], take it easy if you have a school crush!
Kevin Jonas
#76. Fine, I'll teach you,'
'Besides, there's only so many times a girl wants to fall on her butt in front of the boy she's out to impress.
Joss Stirling
#77. The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.
Denis Waitley
#78. You think you're going to impress an American jury with [your] words? In the eyes of the Americans, you're doomed. Just looking at you in an orange suit, chains, and being Muslim and Arabic is enough to convict you.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi
#79. I often took the bus to her apartment, where we drank bourbon and ginger ale, listened to the music we wanted to impress each other with, which eventually turned into listening to the music we actually liked.
Rob Sheffield
#80. Proclaim the gospel from a posture of inadequacy and dependence. Don't try to impress people through technique. You will not bring people to conversion by satisfying the needs of reason. They come because the Holy Spirit has transformed their hearts.
Walter Henrichsen
#81. It had seemed like a good idea at the time, a sure-fire way to impress this girl, who was as cute as hell but wound tighter than one of his father's antique clocks.
Ros Baxter
#82. There were drinks and food in full force, and some Moroi guy had a guitar out and was trying to impress girls with his musical skills - which were nonexistent. In fact, his music was so awful that he might have discovered a new way to kill Strigoi.
Richelle Mead
#83. Nothing said Clothes to Wear When You Want to Impress a Guy You Initially Shot Down, But Now You Realise You Like Him and Want to Get Him Back. Where was the outfit for that?
Kristin Walker
#84. Being yourself is all it takes. If you want to impress someone don't be someone else just be yourself.
Selena Gomez
#85. Maybe if he was the sort of man who could eat someone else's hash browns, who the hotel wanted to impress so much they sent him someone else's breakfast, maybe then he was the sort of man who could get an audience with the King.
Dave Eggers
#86. I don't know who he (Wladimir) was trying to impress in that homo-erotic video of his doing bicep-curls. It didn't impress me.
David Haye
#87. Man, I need to impress her, cause I'd like to undress her.
Lyle Lovett
#88. This was one benefit of being a grown man and not a kid: I wanted to impress this woman, but not to the point of getting myself killed.
Victor LaValle
#89. That's nothing. To impress a polar bear I met in Switzerland, I once got on two tiny sticks and flew down a snow-covered mountain.
Shelly Laurenston
#90. The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment.
Robert Ringer
#91. Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!
Anne McCaffrey
#92. I don't dress any particular way to impress anyone or market myself for my music. It's actually who I am.
Lady Gaga
#93. Instead of hearing the message he was trying to impress upon me and the impressionable queer ears hanging on his every word, all I could think was, I can't believe he just told them all how old I am.
- Jason's reaction to Chad's speech
Ethan Day
#94. Will Rogers once said, "Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like."
Joshua Becker
#95. I'm not sure any of us can really answer. Guys don't go through half as much trouble as we do to impress. All they do is throw on just anything and look good. It's so unfair. Meg's
Apryl Baker
#96. Seeking new levels of technical mastery should be a life long pursuit - not because you want to impress, but to facilitate any direction the great spirit inside you wants to go.
Kenny Werner
#97. I know that Martin Johnson [the England coach] was in the stands, but I didn't feel it was up to me to impress them. He and his assistant [Brian Smith] were here to support me.
Jonny Wilkinson
#98. I am not living my life to impress anyone, not of a big head to degrade anyone, not of negative thoughts to influence anyone. But a positive mind to inspire the people that surrounds me and the world.
Henry Johnson Jr
#99. You are in big trouble when you start writing software to impress girls.
Bruce Ellis
#100. Growing up, the way that I looked was very important to me. I was always trying to impress people, and when I grew my beard there was a certain freedom, a separation, getting past this the way I looked, identify myself as a spiritual seeker.
Matisyahu
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