To Please Someone Quotes

#1. Love your sport. Never do it to please someone else; it has to be yours. That is all that will justify the hard work. Compete against yourself, not others, for that is who is truly your best competition.

Peggy Fleming

#2. We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else.

Alice Miller

#3. The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

Peggy Fleming

#4. Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#5. I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games.

Joyce Tenneson

#6. You can't write something to please someone.

Sean Durkin

#7. Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in the wrong direction. Always do what you believe in, no matter what people say. Only way to go!

Zedd

#8. Don't let people interfere with you. Boot 'em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone.

Ray Bradbury

#9. 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

#10. Please let him look. I didn't need to hide from someone courting oblivion as ardently as I am.

Gillian Flynn

#11. Abraham's servant prayed for success: "O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today, and show lovingkindness to my master Abraham" (Gen. 24:12 NASB). This is the first time in Scripture that we read of someone asking God for specific guidance.

Gary L. Thomas

#12. 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

#13. I need you to be my foil!" she wailed. "I need someone to disagree with him, so I can agree with him and support him like a good wife should! Please, Evelyn! I cannot become a ruined spinster!

Tarun Shanker

#14. 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.

#15. You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do.

Bryan Singer

#16. I still have five years to the end of my term. There are many candidates. There'll be a problem if it's supposed to be a European or someone from the emerging countries, the so-called BRICS. This will be decided, but please don't think Poland has anything to say about it.

Marek Belka

#17. To me, the most emotional thing is to see regular people wearing our clothes. Yes, sometimes I see our clothes on somebody, and I think, 'No!', but you can't stop someone in the street and say, 'Please go home and change.'

Domenico Dolce

#18. If you pitch your movie to someone and they say, "Oh, please, don't make that. No one would see it." Do it! Because that means you may have something that's not the norm.

Matthew Bonifacio

#19. 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

#20. But, someone, please give me - who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew - give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?

Ann Voskamp

#21. When someone has tried to please you, it is rude, as well as disheartening, to respond by announcing that the effort was a failure.

Judith Martin

#22. For me, cooking is a way to try and please people and tell them I love them. When I fall in love with someone, I want to feed them as well.

Ruth Reichl

#23. Could somebody please invade America? I know it's not exactly prime real estate and can just about produce corn and shitty TV, but someone really needs to help them blow off some steam.

Yahtzee Croshaw

#24. If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.

Kurt Cobain

#25. You know the hospital shows on television?" this woman asks. "When someone's heart stops and has to be restarted with electric paddles? That's what you and Margaret did for us. Please tell her daughter our hearts have been going ever since.

Gloria Steinem

#26. I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

Alexandra Fuller

#27. He stares at the them, mid mouthful. 'Please,' he says, after he's swallowed. 'It's bad enough that the middle-aged are having sex, without thinking of my aunt doing it. And I don't know why someone just doesn't tell Sam to use a condom instead of impregnating the women of the inner-west.

Melina Marchetta

#28. Oh please," Scout said."Don't take that tone with me. You know you'd love to have a minion. Someone at your beck and call. Someone to do your bidding. How many times have you said to yourself," Self, I need a unicorn to run errands and such?

Chloe Neill

#29. When you take the elevator to the top, please remember to send it back down so someone else might use it.

Dikembe Mutombo

#30. There are people that have that confidence, who march into VIP areas. I assume I won't get in. I don't say, 'Do you know who I am?', but sometimes I'm with someone who says it for you. Then, I pretend to be all, 'Oh, please don't shame me!'.

Chris Lowe

#31. I don't want to go into a fridge at an undertaker's. I want you to keep me at home until the funeral. Please can someone sit with me in case I get lonely? I promise not to scare you.

Jenny Downham

#32. Can't someone please tell me what that little, lacy thing is that I keep catching a glimpse of when she bends down?" Wayra asks. "I don't know, but I have to say that I like it more than I should." Jax replies, sounding amused.

Amy A. Bartol

#33. As someone who understands why you did this, and admires your ability to actually accomplish it, I am-pleading with you. Cinder. Please. Take me back."
She filled up her lungs. "No.

Marissa Meyer

#34. When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.

Marcel Proust

#35. If you wish to have children, please do something for the world you will bring them into. That will make you someone who works for peace, in one way or another.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#36. Your kids pissing you off is an inborn instinct. It's nature's way of getting you to kick them out when they turn 18!
Okaaay. ~sigh~ Due to the times, you can kick them out between the ages of 28-38. Can someone please dramatically reduce the cost of housing, already?
~SHEESH~

Dakota Dawn

#37. If you're in a relationship with someone who does not honor or respect you, I want you to know you are worthy of love. Please reach out for help.

Brooke Axtell

#38. Please read this [book] so I'll have someone to talk about it with? I'll get you cigarettes.

Fiona Staples

#39. Don't idolize others. Don't wish you were someone else! You're the best you. Please don't wish to be someone else. Just do you. Worship yourself. If anything, wish to be a better you.

Unknown

#40. All have been, or at least all have believed themselves to be, in danger from the pursuit of someone whom they wished to avoid; and all have been anxious for the attentions of someone whom they wished to please.

Jane Austen

#41. This is the team. We're trying to go to the moon. If you can't put someone up, please don't put them down.

NASA

#42. Of course, you'll defend Jay," says Rango, He was a part of your former life, of your former values. I will never be able to alter that. I want you to think as I do."
"But Rango, you couldn't respect someone who surrendered an opinion merely to please you . It would be hypocrisy.

Anais Nin

#43. I love you, Caleb. I love you! If you care for me at all ... please, don't do this! Please, don't leave me. I don't know how to live without you. Don't make me go back to trying to be someone I don't know how to be anymore. - Livvie

C.J. Roberts

#44. So, please people, if you know someone with AD(H)D, don't try to change that about them. Don't take that one skill away, or make them feel ashamed to use it. Sometimes procrastination is all they have in their little superhero tool belt!

Stacey Turis

#45. You don't want to completely change who you are you are to please other people. If they want you to change so much that you become someone else, they're probably not the right person for you.

John Cheese

#46. There's not a single day when I walk the streets of New York City when someone doesn't come up to me to say: 'Please, please, ask your dad to run for president.' We really need a businessman as leader of our country, not a politician.

Eric Trump

#47. If someone wants to marry you outside the temple, whom will you strive to please - God or a mortal? If you insist on a temple marriage, you will be pleasing the Lord and blessing the other party.

Ezra Taft Benson

#48. People! Please. Listen. Our life, our bodies are the most authentic clinical record ever! Why do you have to ask for any other one, alien, fake, distorted by illegible handwriting belonging to someone who has never been us and has never tried to understand us? Do you think that is right?

Igor Eliseev

#49. Someone who responds to "Please don't grope me" with whining and pouting isn't a friend. He's an asshole and a predator.

Mallory Ortberg

#50. Unhappiness can be like a virus spreading from one person, to the next person, to the next one and so on. When someone is mean or rude to you, do not let their unhappiness infect your own life. If you are the unhappy one, please quarantine yourself so you do not infect others!

Jennifer O'Neill

#51. If the guy you're dating doesn't seem to be completely into you, or you feel the need to start 'figuring him out,' please consider the glorious thought that he might just not be that into you. And then free yourself to go find someone that is.

Greg Behrendt

#52. April frowned, irritation evident.
"I did not consent to your presence," she said peevishly. "Please depart, and attempt your political assassination on someone else's property.

Seanan McGuire

#53. All the men in Daddy's records sang of love with drastically imbalanced emotion. In the span of three minutes, they begged for it and kicked it to the curb. They turned to anybody, even to God, with a perpetual request: Please send me someone to love. But once they got it, love scrambled them.

Rashod Ollison

#54. It's not okay to just make up false things about someone, especially in their personal life. Professionally, fine! Scrutinize me all you want. I know that I can't please everyone, but personally, let's just leave it alone. It's going too far.

Keri Hilson

#55. You don't have to date me, just don't date her. Please, as your friend, I'm begging you not to date someone who doesn't appreciate you.

Cammie McGovern

#56. I think it's hard, when you're someone who likes to please people, as I am, to be a boss. I had to learn how to rein myself in and not terrify people.

Ruth Reichl

#57. If you're not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it's hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that's really not an ingredient for a happy life.

Anne Hathaway

#58. Will someone please tell me why you all call me 'Sparky'?" she burst out in frustration. "And if I get stabbed one more time tonight I'm going to lose it!" she added, rounding on Jason, who was sneaking up behind her holding a stapler.

Josephine Angelini

#59. Please let me meet someone and please make sure he's good in bed." She figured it was a good idea to be specific about what she wanted - she didn't want to be blessed with the wrong man.

Lea Hart

#60. Please don't let it be another cop. I'm outta bail money. Wait a minute ... I could sell you on eBay and make a killing. (Mark)
Not in my current condition. You'd have to sell Caleb or Madaug. I'm sure there's someone willing to buy two perfectly good white boys. (Nick)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#61. When you have done something that took courage and someone wants to share the joy you created for them by your actions, please give yourself permission to take the applause in whatever form it appears.

Amy Lisewski

#62. Maybe love was a woman feeding him pancakes. Maybe it was someone sitting across from him sipping orange juice just to please him.

Christine Feehan

#63. It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please.

Sue Miller

#64. What the hell?" Helena objected. "And would someone please flick a Bic or rub two sticks together? I want to die knowing exactly what killed me.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#65. I'm absolutely not looking for someone who agrees with me about everything or someone who wants to please me by believing what I believe.

Marilyn Manson

#66. Before you try to measure someone else's performance, please explain how you measure your own.

Jurgen Appelo

#67. He used to say to his melancholia patients:
You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone.

Alfred Adler

#68. 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

#69. Looks to me like it sorted itself out. The girl's been laid, my guess, fairly recently, guessin' again, good and proper. Next problem!" I closed my eyes. Someone, please tell me that Shirleen didn't just announce to the entire store that I'd been laid "good and proper

Kristen Ashley

#70. You would not want to be responsible for someone else's happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!

Jennifer O'Neill

#71. Please help me, I begged her silently. "I'm fine." I'm not fine, and I am going to kill someone, and I don't know if I'll be able to stop "I'm fine, let's go back.

Dan Wells

#72. When you truly love someone, you want to please and honor them by the way you act. How you treat someone shows whether or not you really care about them.

Billy Graham

#73. Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather but not with a Glock 9 millimeter?

Zell Miller

#74. I allowed social media to define what I thought of my body. And now I realize that no matter how thin you are, someone will call you fat. No matter how beautiful you are, someone will call you ugly. But you can't spend your time worrying about that. You're just not going to please the world.

Demi Lovato

#75. I can't write to please everyone, but someone, somewhere will be touched if I put my heart into it.

Sara Winters

#76. I'm for gay elopement, not for gay weddings. I've been with my boyfriend for twenty years. I don't feel like that would validate our relationship in any way. But I would really fight for someone else to have the right. Just elope, though, please.

David Sedaris

#77. I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Ariana Grande

#78. Kink is only sexy when done between consenting adults," Nora said. "So don't do any kink until you're at least eighteen. No, twenty-one. Thirty. Thirty's a good age to start. And do your homework. And stay in school. And don't do drugs. God, I'm a hypocrite. Someone find me my beer. Please.

Tiffany Reisz

#79. I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

Robert Burns

#80. I find literary fiction about the Holocaust or any other major world tragedy to be distasteful - nonfiction only, please.

Gabrielle Zevin

#81. All I want is the here and now, this piece of time. And please save the pillow talk for someone who wants it. Contrary to what you seem to think, I'm no delicate rose

Lisa Renee Jones

#82. Of course someone would be that stupid. Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry. She

Terry Pratchett

#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. All have been or believed themselves to be in danger from the pursuit of one they wished to avoid, while they have been anxious for the attentions of someone they wished to please.

Nancy Butler

#85. A salesman is an it that stinks to please
but whether to please itself or someone else
makes no more difference than if it sells
hate condoms education snakeoil vac
uumcleaners terror strawberries democ
ra(caveat emptor)cy superfluous hair

E. E. Cummings

#86. 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

#87. It's a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please ... be selective.

Mandy Hale

#88. Oh, for Christ's sake,' I hear. 'Can we please just try to have a good time?' This is like ordering someone to find you attractive, and it doesn't work. I've tried it.

David Sedaris

#89. I have talked about choosing rather than acting from compulsion. When you feel that you have to live according to someone else's direction or live so that you never disappoint or hurt anybody, then your life is a continual assessment of whether or not you please other people.

Virginia Satir

#90. And please punish Jenny. You could strike her dead. Amen."
Jenny blinked. "I'm no expert on this, but ... are you supposed to pray for someone to be struck dead?

Maggie Osborne

#91. Please, hate me if you have to, never speak to me again, but don't settle for someone you don't love because I hurt you

Katherine Allred

#92. Hold everything. I missed a four-way chick fight. Then I find out someone's been nibbling." William's attention shifted to Olivia, who was still lying on the floor. "Please tell me our sweet little angel is the biter. It'll make me want her ever so much more.

Gena Showalter

#93. Light a candle for me, I used to whisper to no one.
Someone
Anyone
If you're out there
Please tell me you can feel this fire.

Tahereh Mafi

#94. Someone needs to invent a lighter that the hash
doesn't stick to when you tamp it down.
Can you get on that, please?

Sienna McQuillen

#95. For a long time, I've distinguished between entertainer and performer and entertainer and artist. To me, an entertainer is someone who pleases others, and an artist tries to please himself.

George Carlin

#96. If you think that you are the only one who is right then please consult someone; If you believe that you are right then dont't seek self approval... before that learn to discriminate between a thought and a belief...

Dinesh Kumar

#97. Saying "please" without saying it to someone you don't want to say "please" to in the first place tops the list of hard.

Rita Williams-Garcia

#98. People say love can be developed, but in the end only person you love is themselves. that's why you choose to love someone who can please you the most. - Takumi

Ai Yazawa

#99. If you make me lunch," he said, "will you put it in a brown paper bag? ... Because when I see kids come to school with their lunch in a paper bag, that means that someone cares about them. Miss Laura, can I please have my lunch in a paper bag?

Laura Schroff

#100. The sign at the entrance to my gym locker room says, no cell phones please, cell phones are cameras. They are not. A camera is a Nikon or a Leica or Rolleiflex, and when you strike someone with one, they know they have been hit with something substantial.

Danny Lyon