Top 66 To Please Everybody Quotes
#1. When I write to please everybody, it falls flat. When I write what I know, fearlessly, It won't please everybody, but it doesn't fall flat.
Ronald P. Chavez
#2. Do yourself a favor; don't wear yourself out trying to please everybody. Your time is too valuable.
Joel Osteen
#3. You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time.
Mike Quade
#4. I don't expect everybody to like me. If you try to please everybody, by changing your position and your personality, every time you do that you lose a little bit of yourself.
Nancy Grace
#5. There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship.
J. Christopher Herold
#6. If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.
Donald Rumsfeld
#7. I don't really care what others think of me. You're not going to please everybody. I care what I think and what my children and my husband thinks.
Lisa Vanderpump
#8. I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope
#9. I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.
Kevin Costner
#10. I don't want to please everybody. I'd get a little worried if I did something and everybody was pleased with it.
Walt Disney
#11. A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him.
William Kunstler
#12. I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
Herbert Bayard Swope
#13. As an artist, you do understand you're never going to please everybody.
Paul Emsley
#14. Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.
John Lennon
#15. I wish somebody would have told me, 'Don't try too hard,' because when I was younger I wanted to try really hard. I wanted to please everybody and be this perfect, polite little girl.
Taylor Spreitler
#16. Cooking at home is easier than cooking in the restaurant because you don't have to write a menu or try to please everybody.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
#17. Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
Vaughn Monroe
#18. Friendship is not by force but by choice.
You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.
Stella Oladiran
#19. You're not really free until you're free from trying to please everybody.
Joel Osteen
#20. I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#23. Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.
John Vianney
#24. I do my best to please everybody, far more than they'd ever guess. I try to laugh it all off, because I don't want to let them see my trouble.
Anne Frank
#25. The key to leadership is having a vision, and being strong enough to say no and not try to please everybody. Thats a recipe for failure. Leadership is practiced through attitude and actions, rather than words and memos.
Matt Mickiewicz
#26. I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
#27. He wish'd to please everybody; and, having little to give, he gave expectations.
Benjamin Franklin
#28. If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.
Brendan O'Carroll
#29. It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
Publilius Syrus
#30. I didn't know the word no, because I wanted to please everybody all the time. Every kid does.
Kristy McNichol
#31. Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.
Aesop
#32. I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.
Paula Radcliffe
#33. To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.
George Washington
#34. You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia.
Anatoly Chubais
#35. Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.
Rene Descartes
#36. I met some fans who said, 'Please start Twittering!' They even walked me through it, but I'm terrible at it. I'm so bad at keeping it up. I forget how to use it. And I'm not very savvy: I try to send a private message, and it goes out to everybody.
Jim Parrack
#37. You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
Nas
#38. Everybody that listens to something hears it differently from their own perspective. And you can't please everyone. Don't even try. Please yourself first and then try to please those people around you that you feel know what you're doing.
Buddy DeFranco
#39. When it comes to art you can't please everybody but if you please yourself then take pleasure in that.
Cise Star
#40. Please don't get me wrong here. I'm not making fun of old people. In fact I think that's the goal of everybody here tonite. We all want to be an old person someday.
Jeff Foxworthy
#41. It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
Walter Kerr
#42. Look, you know, you can't please everybody. I'm a stand-up comic. I know that. It doesn't matter how funny you are and how well you do, there's two people that are going to walk out of there hating you.
Billy Gardell
#43. I always say, when you're onstage you can't please everybody. I'm sure there are people who may not take to what I do, but that's okay. Thank God the majority are in my corner.
Don Rickles
#44. I know there isn't anything I can do that will please everybody. But if I have done according to my beliefs, I sleep very very well.
Corazon Aquino
#45. Anytime you take a book and make it into a movie, you're going to have people who have their version of it in their minds and whatnot. You can't please everybody.
Josh Hutcherson
#46. My new story collection won't please everyone, nor was it meant to. Then again, not everybody lives in my world. If they did, I'd have to move out and find another world to write about.
Ted Gargiulo
#47. Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.
Samuel Johnson
#48. I can't please everybody and I don't try to. If I can please myself that's enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.
Todd Solondz
#49. No matter what you do, at the end of the day you can't please everybody. I'm not hear to please.
Britney Spears
#50. You can't please everybody. All you can do is really just try to work from the heart and do the best job that you can and hope for the best.
Jackie Earle Haley
#51. There were times when I purposely didn't go to school because of Pearl Harbor Day, because certainly there was enough media about it every year to remind everybody. So when I heard they were going to make the movie, I thought, "Oh, no, please not another Pearl Harbor mention!"
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
#52. They started the meeting out by saying, "Everybody please take your seats"
I was halfway back to my cubicle with mine before they stopped me ...
Neil Leckman
#53. Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations.
Mario Monti
#54. You can't please everybody. I give up. I'm not trying to. I don't care. Leave me alone with that.
Estelle
#55. You have to build your credentials as a candidate, not just as a woman. You also have to be willing to exercise power. We've been educated to be mothers, peacemakers, but we must learn that we can't please everybody.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#56. I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we'd think: Oh, please Lord, don't make us go through that.
Paul Reiser
#57. You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.
Ben Gibbard
#58. I don't know what my expectations are. It's like the word 'potential.' Those two words don't mean a whole lot to me. We can't please everybody. Certainly, we have to please ourselves first.
Jimy Williams
#59. So, this is to everybody who's ever had a struggle in life being yourself. I think that the most beautiful thing a human being can do is just be who you are inside. So please, everybody, just be yourselves and encourage everyone else to do the same.
Josh Hutcherson
#60. You can't please everybody. There's that old saying that there's no sure formula for success, but the only sure fire formula for failure is to try to please everyone. You're not going to do that.
Matt Bomer
#61. Everybody, will you please just sit for a minute?
Like children in a game of musical chairs, Tommy's three guests immediately reach for the nearest chair, pull it out from the table, and sit---even her brother. Well, says Tommy. Something in my life goes according to plan.
Julia Glass
#62. We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.
Adolf Hitler
#63. I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with all my heart,if we are talking about me, since we are talking about me,please resist blasting the trumpet during my visitand resign yourselves to my quiet absence.
Pablo Neruda
#64. I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.
Lauryn Hill
#65. The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#66. It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.
Jean Reno
