Top 100 To Please Quotes
#1. There's a difference between a pop star and an artist. Pop stars have to be perfect all the time; an artist is allowed, on occasion, to suck. And I put myself in that category because I sometimes suck. I'm not trying to please the masses. It's not going to happen, so I don't try.
Kelis
#2. Being in love is ... anxious," he said. "Wanting to please, worrying that she will see me as I really am. But wanting to be known. That is ... you're naked, moaning in the dark, no dignity at all ... I wanted her to see me and to love me even though she knew everything I am, and I knew her
Audrey Niffenegger
#3. Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.
Christopher Hitchens
#4. When it comes to the question of dependence or independence! - At any rate, it must be better to have only one to please than two.
Jane Austen
#5. 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
#6. I'm not hard to please, I'm content with the very best.
Fernand Point
#7. You're not really free until you're free from trying to please everybody.
Joel Osteen
#8. Do yourself a favor; don't wear yourself out trying to please everybody. Your time is too valuable.
Joel Osteen
#9. So that, whatever the stars were made for, they were not made to please our eyes. It is just the same in everything; nothing is made for man.
Thomas Hardy
#10. Love does not seek to please itself, but offers itself and its life to others.
Frederick Lenz
#13. When you realize who you live for, and who's important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I'm gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it - and I lived it for me.
Rihanna
#14. An honest heart seeks to please God in all things and offend Him in none.
Arthur W. Pink
#16. I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
Natalie Portman
#17. In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
Solon
#18. If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
Epictetus
#19. When you get your power to be "good" from your desire to please man, you will ultimately fail because you do not have the power to be perfect,
Hayley DiMarco
#20. Please not thyself the flattering crowd to hear;
'Tis fulsome stuff, to please thy itching ear.
Survey thy soul, not what thou does appear,
But what thou art.
Aulus Persius Flaccus
#21. 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
#22. You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time.
Mike Quade
#23. Convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain.
Aesop
#24. 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
#25. Father, I desire to please You in everything I do. I declare that You are good and faithful. I trust You with my whole heart and believe that You are a rewarder of those who diligently seek You. I bless You and honor You today in Jesus' name. Amen.
Joel Osteen
#26. Then I gave up trying to please her and simply fucked her, ripping viciously. It was like murder. I didn't care; my cock had gone crazy.
Charles Bukowski
#28. 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.
#29. An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.
Artie Shaw
#30. This truth, that I have to please only God, is an important key to becoming resistant to being manipulated by disapproval from others.
Rick Warren
#32. Be yourself. If you water yourself down to please people or to fit in or to not offend anyone, you lose the power, the passion, the freedom and the joy of being uniquely you. It's much easier to love yourself when you are being yourself.
Don Coppersmith
#33. 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
#34. If you desire to please God with the decision you make and afterward it proves to be a mistake, it's an error not an end.
Lysa TerKeurst
#35. A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.
Aristotle.
#36. I admit I distorted intelligence to please Stalin because I feared him.
Filipp Golikov
#37. What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?
Joseph Addison
#38. The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.
Willa Cather
#39. Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.
Ang Lee
#40. Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.
Andrea Bocelli
#41. I am sweet, I am ugly, I am mean if you love me. I'll try hard just to please you, when I say I don't need you.
Sheryl Crow
#42. What does it mean to sell the ayaat of Allah for a small price?
It is to change the meaning of ayaat in order to please people. By telling people whatever they need to be told in order for them to stay pleased with you. That is called selling the ayaat of Allah for a small price.
Nouman Ali Khan
#43. And the person who says that the only way to please them is to restrict options for others is, if you ask me, the one who deserves it least. And that's my opinion, expressed as politely as possible.
David Gaider
#44. Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
Marianne Moore
#45. I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.
Tori Amos
#46. I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet, after all, what is there to give pleasure? When one has seen one thing, one has seen every thing.
Fanny Burney
#47. I was still a nerd in some ways, but I'd be that nerd on my own terms. Not to please anyone else. Not to be anyone else.
Bijou Hunter
#49. If you remember you just have one constituent, and that's God himself, and if you try to please him I think you usually come with a lot steadier pace and a lot more peace in your life.
Jim DeMint
#50. You'll never please everyone, but you only have to please a few people to get an offer.
Harvey MacKay
#51. Overcompensating or being too eager to please will lessen a man's
respect; it will give the kiss of death to his attraction,
Sherry Argov
#52. The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
Jean Racine
#53. I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
Jessamyn West
#54. Far from resenting these lessons, the pupil, to please his tutor, once composed a sheaf of poems, and though the verses were very obscene, Perry, who thought them nevertheless hilarious, had had the manuscript leather-bound in a prison shop and its title, Dirty Jokes, stamped in gold.
Truman Capote
#55. I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
Padma Lakshmi
#56. How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze
Murasaki Shikibu
#57. You are loved by your maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your father.
Max Lucado
#58. In any case where someone is hurt within himself because of a mere jealousy over your success expedition, that is none of your business.You don't bring yourself low in order to please those who envy you.
Israelmore Ayivor
#59. Young Bran, striving to please and yearning for the approving touch of a father's hand, only ever saw that hand raised in anger. Thus, he learned at an early age that since he could never please his father, he might as well please himself.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#60. 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
#61. If you want to please me very much, you will fall down when I shoot you, -Oates
The White Darkness
Geraldine McCaughrean
#62. 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
#63. When I take hold of Jesus by faith as my only hope to please God, God declares that I am justified. Christ's righteousness becomes mine. That's grace.
Gloria Furman
#65. Individuals who attempt to please and individuals who become angry both have authority issues.
Gary Zukav
#67. When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything.
Harry Browne
#68. 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
#69. No wonder she was so underweight. She was desperate to please a woman that could never be pleased, in the hopes of being loved and accepted by the very person that should be giving that freely.
Rose Wynters
#70. 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
#71. My wife is my protector. Without her, I'm nothing. She wants to please me, and I want to please her. We've been together over 53 years.
Jack LaLanne
#73. Sex with a woman who wants to please a man is nothing compared to sex with a woman who wants to please herself.
Lee Nichols
#74. We are forever looking outside ourselves, seeking approval and striving to impress others. But living to please others is a poor substitute for self-love, for no matter how family and friends may adore us, they can never satisfy our visceral need to love and honor ourselves.
Susan L. Taylor
#75. A great while ago the world begun,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain;
But that's all one, our play is done,
And we'll strive to please you every day.
William Shakespeare
#76. At eighteen most people wish to please, and the conviction that they have not an exterior likely to second that desire brings anything but gratification.
Charlotte Bronte
#77. Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.
Mother Teresa
#78. Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.
Craig Groeschel
#79. Human relationships are most satisfying when we enter them not just to please ourselves or even the other person, but to please God.
Tim Lane And Paul Tripp
#80. Many believers' entire lives are reduced to nothing more than a sin management program, running the endless treadmill of trying to please God by doing more for Him or trying to sin less.
Paul Silway
#81. To be able to be oneself and not have to disown one's values to please another - That is what intimate love is all about.
Milton Avery
#82. A third volume of Memoirs is really a bold undertaking ... I cannot, like a certain female writer, say, I hope if I have done nothing to please, I have done nothing to offend; for truly I mean to give both pleasure and offense ...
Laetitia Pilkington
#83. Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#84. I was anxious to please, even if I hated the recipient of my pleasing. My pleasee.
Marian Keyes
#85. Sometimes I'm very impatient. I also feel the need to please everyone, which is unnecessary and impossible.
Steve Nash
#86. 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
#87. I've heard some people say that I'm selling out, but I'm not. If I hadn't done 'Black Radio', and just kept on doing just piano trio stuff, I wouldn't be honest with myself; I'd be doing it to please other people. That would be selling out.
Robert Glasper
#88. God is my authority. He saved me from sin. And I live my life rightly, not to earn my way to His heaven, but to please Him." Jack spoke softly. His heart swelled, and he could have teared up.
Alicia A. Willis
#89. Chloe is waiting for me." A sneer twisted his lips. "Always rushing off to please your female. You keep claiming it's because she's taken your heart, but if you ask me, I think she's got your balls.
Eve Langlais
#90. It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.
Georg Brandes
#91. Never try to please people.
No matter what you do, you can't please them enough.
Stay true to yourself.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#92. He who embraces the cross and bears it with patience lightens the weight of the cross. Indeed, the weight itself becomes a consolation; for God abounds with grace to all those who carry the cross with good will in order to please him.
Alphonsus Liguori
#93. In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
Jonathan Swift
#94. I haven't mowed a lawn in quite a while, but I remember hating that when I was growing up. To please Dad, you have to get it right, and that's the thing. You have to please Dad.
Brendon Urie
#95. I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
Thomas Merton
#96. Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
Iris Chang
#97. To please God ... to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness ... to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son- it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is.
C.S. Lewis
#98. The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by the pupils will obtain results which one of a more forbidding temperament finds it impossible to secure.
William James
#99. The modern mind is hard to please; and it generally calls the way of Godfrey ferocious and the way of Francis fanatical. That is, it calls any moral method unpractical, when it has just called any practical method immoral.
G.K. Chesterton
#100. 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
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