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Quotes About Pleasing

I think people are tired of religion and how it divides and damages people. You can name it whatever you want, Islam or Christianity, but if you have a system in which God is distant and angry all the time, and you're trying to please him through the right disciplines, it isn't going to work for everyone.
~ William P. Young
June 9 SEEK TO LIVE IN MY LOVE, which covers a multitude of sins: both yours and others'. Wear My Love like a cloak of Light, covering you from head to toe. Have no fear, for perfect Love decimates fear. Look at other people through lenses of Love; see them from My perspective. This is how you walk in the Light, and it pleases Me.
~ Sarah Young
If pleasing people is your goal, you will be enslaved to them. People can be harsh taskmasters when you give them this power over you.
~ Sarah Young
Do not judge others who hesitate in trembling fear before an act that would be easy for you. If each of My children would seek to please Me above all else, fear of others' judgments would vanish, as would attempts to impress others. Focus your attention on the path just ahead of you and on the One who never leaves your side.
~ Sarah Young
I didn't know the word no, because I wanted to please everybody all the time. Every kid does
~ Kristy McNichol
Deal with complaints. If you give the complaint your attention, you may be able to please this one person this one time - and position your business to reap the benefits of good customer service.
~ Susan Ward
I that please some, try all, both joy and terror Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.
~ William Shakespeare
Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful as a dreamland, nothing worldly about it . . . nothing to hang a fret or a worry upon.
~ Mark Twain
There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1--to tell him you have read one of his books; 2--to tell him you have read all of his books; 3--to ask him to let you read the manuscript of his forthcoming book. No. 1 admits you to his respect; No. 2 admits you to his admiration; No. 3 carries you clear into his heart.
~ Mark Twain
The complete absence of a desire to please, or to put someone at their ease, could, in a less vulnerable person, have been construed as arrogance. In her it came across as a kind of reckless aloneness.
~ Arundhati Roy
To please God, live a godly life and nurture kindness, compassion, justice, and humility.
~ Jim George
The ones that love us least, are the ones we'll die to please.
~ Paul Westerberg
I've been in love with audiences all my life, and I've tried to please. I hope I did.
~ Judy Garland
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
If it is I who determine where God is to be found, then I shall always find a God who corresponds to me in some way, who is obliging, who is connected with my own nature. But if God determines where he is to be found, then it will be in a place which is not immediately pleasing to my nature and which is not at all congenial to me.
~ Eric Metaxas
He wish'd to please everybody; and, having little to give, he gave expectations.
~ Benjamin Franklin
queria agradar a todos e, tendo muito pouco a oferecer, oferecia expectativas
~ Benjamin Franklin
He wished to please everybody; and, having little to give, he gave expectations.
~ Benjamin Franklin
There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn't ever complain.
~ Gillian Flynn
Regarding Wisdom: It is not a matter of cleverness and quick-ness or skill in expression or age... it is a matter of orientation to God, out of which comes the ability to please him.
~ Gordon D. Fee
On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling to those most English parts of him.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
Of course you can't please everyone all the time. It's just something that I've got to get over, and I'm better at it now.
~ Phil Collins
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 Armitage