Quotes About Pleasing

Being an actor somehow can be a perverse extension of that feeling we generally all have as children, that feeling of wanting to please. Of course you're looking for affirmation, encouragement.

It's easier to get into controlling relationships when you're young because you're much more eager to please, and controlling men pick up on that. If they like to make decisions for you at the start of a relationship, it can be a warning sign.

You can't please everybody, right? Some people are supporters. Some people are against you.

I love a nice cooking show. It's as aesthetically pleasing as any other thing that tempts the senses, I suppose.

I don't think you can be a good actor and want to please, because so much about performing and acting is surprising people.

A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.

Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?

A man after God's own heart is... a man who yearns to please God, a man who desires to grow spiritually, a man who had a heart that obeys.

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.

You will never please everybody. Some men will say you have gone too far. Other men will say you haven't gone far enough. I just compromise and say I won't please anybody.

There is something in the ardour and ingenousness of youth, which is particularly pleasing to the contemplation of an old man, if his feelings have not been entirely corroded by the world.

It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all; since he must know that he cannot obtain anything without it.

There is a video out now on how to please men. Here's tip number 1: Just show up!

It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I'm doing, God is pleased with that. It's complete peace for me.

As it is impossible to please God without faith, so it is impossible not to desire to please God with faith.

Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.

This day, I saw clearly that I should never be happy, yea, that God Himself could not make me happy, unless I could be in a capacity to 'please and glorify Him forever.' Take away this and admit me into all the fine heavens that can be conceived of by men or angels, and I should still be miserable forever.

So shall the sayings of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be pleasing continually before Thee, 0 Lord my helper and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14, Septuagint) EDGES OF His WAYS: p. 160

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.

May God enable me to have a single eye and a simple heart, desiring to please God, to do good to my fellow creatures, and testify my gratitude to my adorable Redeemer.

So here is what it comes down to: the ultimate choice in life is between pleasing ourselves and pleasing God.

If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him, does it matter whom we displease?

You must strive with all possible care to please God in such a manner as neither to do nor behold anything, without first consulting Him, and in everything to seek Him alone and His glory.