Top 100 To Please Everyone Quotes
#1. The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.
Frank Miller
#2. I can't write to please everyone, but someone, somewhere will be touched if I put my heart into it.
Sara Winters
#3. Everyone's so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it's like we're all trying to please everyone. In the end, we please no one.
Olivia Munn
#4. It'd be nice to please everyone but I thought it would be more interesting to have a point of view.
Oscar Levant
#5. There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.
Benjamin Franklin
#6. I find it more enjoyable investing time doing what pleases me, rather than wasting precious time attempting to please everyone else.
Greg Reid
#7. If you try to please everyone, you will please no one. It is impossible to lead your life for others' happiness.
Sudha Murty
#8. I cant tell you the key to succsess, but the key to faliure is trying to please everyone.
Ed Sheeran
#9. I try to please everyone.
Ang Lee
#10. Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.
Richard Engel
#11. The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
Adolf Loos
#12. She was taking two sides at once, to please everyone; she always chose peace over truth, was always eager to conform.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#13. People may not like you, but that's cool because your heart doesn't beat from their liking. You can't live to please everyone, you're not a puppet
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#14. We have never considered our brand superior or inferior to any other one, and we have never spoken about our work in comparison to anyone else's. We are ourselves; we have never had the presumption to please everyone, but we believe in the utmost liberty to express oneself.
Domenico Dolce
#15. You can't go through life trying to please everyone.
Jacob Vargas
#16. 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
#17. You will only be loved and respected if you love and respect yourself. Never try to please everyone; if you do, you will be respected by no one.
Paulo Coelho
#18. I don't know all the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone. Being controlled by the opinions of others is a guaranteed way to miss God's purposes for your life.
Rick Warren
#19. So great leaders don't try to please everyone. Great leaders don't water down their message in order to make the tribe a bit bigger. Instead, they realize that a motivated, connected tribe in the midst of a movement is far more powerful than a larger group could ever be.
Seth Godin
#20. I'd been doing everything to please everyone else and some imaginary me.
Jolene Stockman
#21. You don't have anything to lose by standing up for yourself,' Nando said. 'But you can lose yourself by trying to please everyone.
Sydney Salter
#22. 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
#23. I don't have a clue about the way to achievement, however the way to disappointment is attempting to please everyone.
Bill Cosby
#24. At the prom, you are more about boys thinking you're cute. On the red carpet, you have to please everyone because there are a lot more people looking at those pictures.
Laura Marano
#25. If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.
Viggo Mortensen
#26. Well, I really don't know what the secret of success is but I can tell you that the secret of failure is to try to please everyone.
Bill Cosby
#27. You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can't.
Annie Leibovitz
#28. Whenever you take over something that is popular and has a fanatical following that loves it, you're never going to please everyone. The trick is to have enough wherewithal to follow through with what you want to do with it and give it time to evolve.
Jon Stewart
#29. You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.
Pierce Brosnan
#30. The only thing wrong with trying to please everyone is that there's always at least one person who will remain unhappy. You.
Elizabeth Parker
#31. You don't have to please everyone-you have to please the user.
Brenda Laurel
#32. Everyone is trying to mold you to their type. You won't reach your maximize potential if you get distracted by attempting to please everyone.
Assegid Habtewold
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. Mitt Romney was a guest on 'The Tonight Show' on NBC. It's interesting - you have an empty suit trying to please everyone, and then Romney comes out.
David Letterman
#36. As brands become larger, the need to reach greater numbers of customers makes them less edgy and dilutes their unique positioning as they try to please everyone. It is therefore not surprising to find such brands go into a few years of decline before they are able to reinvent themselves.
Nirmalya Kumar
#37. Sometimes I'm very impatient. I also feel the need to please everyone, which is unnecessary and impossible.
Steve Nash
#38. You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off.
Lauren DeStefano
#39. As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.
Seth Godin
#40. You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
Octavia Spencer
#41. You can live life to please everyone or please yourself.
Katie McGarry
#42. 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
#43. There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.
Will Rogers
#44. Don't live to please everyone. Embrace those who enjoy your company and to hell with the haters.
Dr. Seuss
#46. You're never going to please everyone, and if you do, there's something wrong.
Constance Wu
#47. Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like 'Shrek' or 'The Simpsons,' 'Robin Hood' manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways.
Richard C. Armitage
#48. I've found that if you just try to make the film you want, you'll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, you're going to make really boring films.
Drew Goddard
#49. In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.
Seth Godin
#50. You can waste so much energy trying to make everyone happy, but at the end of the day it's impossible to please everyone, so you just need to focus on what makes you happy.
Lauren Conrad
#51. I had a dream that I could please everyone. Well that will always be a dream, because I find that near to impossible to do.
Starley Ard
#52. Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone.
Prabal Gurung
#53. Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice.
Christopher Dodd
#54. In this life, no matter what you do-you will never be able to satisfy everyone. So stay true to yourself and do you. Trying to please others, you will only end up angry and dissatisfied with life.
Redd
#55. Oh, please. Everyone in this town always says that, like you have to be born here to understand things. I understand plenty. You're only as weird as you want to be.
Sarah Addison Allen
#56. When you want to change things, you won't please everyone.
Sheryl Sandberg
#57. The person who makes promises to everyone ultimately pleases no one.
Robin Sharma
#58. Angels, please help me remember to direct blessings and prayers to everyone I meet today. Please send extra healing energy through me to all my relationships. I ask that each encounter I have bring gifts to everyone involved.
Doreen Virtue
#59. No one can please everyone. Your mental peace is more important. If you are in peace, then others around you will feel peace. So your best effort should be to work on yourself.
Baba Hari Dass
#60. My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.
Ang Lee
#61. Please guide my words and actions so that they bring blessings to everyone involved,
Doreen Virtue
#62. Do horrible things to me," she whispers. "Before I do them to everyone else. Please. Please, Lucas.
C.M. Stunich
#63. A few little changes here and there and we can please everyone."
You could hand out a red Ferrari to each and every person on Earth and someone would complain that his free fucking Ferrari should have been blue. Apparently Sydney hadn't accepted that truth yet.
S.E. Harmon
#64. The living always think that monsters roar and gnash their teeth. But I've seen that real monsters can be friendly; they can smile, and they can say please and thank you like everyone else. Real monsters can appear to be kind. Sometimes they can be inside us.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
#65. If you can't please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not everyone is going to appreciate you for your efforts and deeds.
Anthony Liccione
#66. I don't worry about what everyone wants to see. I make movies that please a writer, director and myself. I always think there are enough people smart as me and sensitive as me.
Saul Zaentz
#67. As you love your own body, so regard everyone as equal to your own body. When the Supreme Experience supervenes, everyone's service is revealed as one's own service. Call it a bird, an insect, an animal or a man, call it by any name you please, one serves one's own Self in every one of them.
Anandamayi Ma
#68. Such is the endless dilemma of dialect. Not every reader will ever agree with the way that I handle it, no matter how hard I work to keep everything readable. But again it's that balance I have to maintain between keeping it easy and keeping it real, and I know that I'll never please everyone.
Susanna Kearsley
#69. You can't please everyone, and you have to trust your instincts, and you have to do your work and throw yourself in there and trust your instincts, and just trust that you're doing a good job that I can be proud of as well.
Matt Ryan
#70. The desire to be nice to everyone and please everyone and the inability to firmly say no is what destroys believers most of all
Sunday Adelaja
#71. You can never please everyone, and I think it's best not to.
Marc Jacobs
#72. If you think that you can please everyone that comes in your way, you are being unrealistic. That is why you need to find your 'soul-mates'.
Assegid Habtewold
#73. It is impossible to accommodate everyone and twice as impossible to please all the dwarfs.
Terry Pratchett
#74. I've said it before, history repeats itself for those who don't learn from the past. Can we please learn from all this? Please? Or is everyone waiting for yet another savior to come along and charm them Hollywood style if freedom is still around for America's next election?
L.M. Fields
#75. I do want to make music that people love, but I also want to make music that I love. I know I can't please everyone with anything I do, so I don't think too much about how other people are going to take things.
Rivers Cuomo
#76. 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
#77. Don't live to please others. Don't think everyone else knows what's right or true. Listen to yourself, and be true to yourself. That way, no matter what else happens in life, you will always have your self-respect.
Jane Porter
#78. I never get too many problems. You can never please everyone anyway, obviously. And some people take the easy route and just play the greatest hits, and their audience is happy to hear that as well, and that's fine, but it wouldn't please me. But it doesn't trouble me.
Paul Weller
#79. Life's too short to spend it trying to keep others happy. You can't please everyone. To fulfill your destiny, stay true to your heart.
Joel Osteen
#80. Believe me when I say this: you can't please everyone in concert, even though I still want to. Someone always wants you to sing a song that isn't necessarily on your set list.
Gladys Knight
#81. Accept that you'll never please everyone and you're on your way to pleasing the right ones.
Elena D. Calin
#82. In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good.
Plato
#83. Look what they've done to me;
I am disheveled, bewildered, confused.
Now please take my hand.
I am wandering about,
in awe and amazement of you.
Take my hand.
Everyone
has someone to take care for them.
But look at me: I have no one.
Take my hand
Rumi
#84. 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
#85. I'm just saying to everyone. The director does not direct the trailer. It's an edited version that takes so many moments of the movie, sometimes it's not even in the movie. The director does the movie. So don't judge the director based on the trailer. Please.
Michel Gondry
#86. As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you can't possibly please everyone.
Evangeline Lilly
#87. If you live to please and be accepted by everyone - you will be trusted by no one.
CA
#88. PERFORM all acts with as much love as you would offer God. In Truth, you eat for the satisfaction of the I in you and dress up to please the self-same I . The husband loves his wife for the sake of the I . And who is this I that is persistently inherent in everyone? It is God Himself.
Sathya Sai Baba
#89. Either way, everything will be fine. But if you have an opinion, please feel free to offer it to me through the gap in the door of a public restroom. Everyone else does.
Tina Fey
#90. Ladies and gentlemen, attention, please!
Come in close where everyone can see!
I got a tale to tell, it isn't gonna cost a dime!
(And if you believe that,
we're gonna get along just fine.)
Stephen King
#91. Live to please the others, and everyone will love you, except yourself.
Paulo Coelho
#92. Develop and protect a moral sensibility and demonstrate the character to apply it. Dream big. Work hard. Think for yourself. Love everything you love, everyone you love, with all your might. And do so, please, with a sense of urgency, for every tick of the clock subtracts from fewer and fewer.
David McCullough Jr.
#93. Good sense is the most evenly distributed thing in the world; for everyone believes himself to be so well provided with it that even those who are the hardest to please in every other way do not usually want more of it than they already have.
Rene Descartes
#94. You can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself.
Ricky Nelson
#95. A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.
Chuck D
#96. No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.
Chris Colfer
#97. Please don't drive drunk, okay? Seriously. It's so fucked up. But by all means, walk drunk. That looks hilarious. Everyone loves to watch someone act like they are trying to make it to safety during a hurricane.
Amy Poehler
#98. Please raise your children with love and non-judgement. Tell them everyone has the right to love who they want to love. It shouldn't threaten you or who you are.
Ellen DeGeneres
#99. Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.
Francine Rivers
#100. I hate to say this, but not everyone seems happy that you're still alive," Finn said, picking up on the glares coming my way.
"You can't please everyone," I drawled. "And you know how much I hate to disappoint our dear friends in the underworld.
Jennifer Estep
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