Quotes About Pleasing

There is a talent in finding the right information at the right time, a happiness in pleasing someone else. Love is the best teacher in this journey. It is simple: you take the initiative and throw the dice. /The Invitation

If you are trying to please, how do you take responsibility for your own needs? How do you even know what your own needs are? What do you have to cut off in yourself in order to please others? I think the act of pleasing makes everything murky. We lose track of ourselves. We stop uttering declaratory sentences. We stop directing our lives. We wait to be rescued. We forget what we know. We make everything okay rather than real.

Many Christians would prefer to hear "What a great guy" from the crowd rather than "Well done, good and faithful servant" from the Master [Matthew 25:23].

We often seek to please ourselves first, instead of God. What is interesting is that when we seek to please God first, very often we discover that we end up far more pleased than we did when we put ourselves first.

If we truly love Christ, we will want to please and honor Him by the way we live. Even the thought of hurting Him or bringing disgrace to His name will be abhorrent to us.

I think it's a very female trait to want to please men and to want to be considered the Cool Girl. And if you take that to the farthest reach, where you're actually selling yourself out and degrading yourself by doing things you don't actually want to do, only in order for this man to think that you do, that's a very perverse thing.

Anyone who cares more about pleasing other people than about their own happiness—anyone who believes, deep down, that everyone else matters more than they do—learns fluent dishonesty at a young age.

But you're worried I'll get in trouble?" I try not to show how much this pleases me. I've managed to ignore him for days now and here I sit. Lapping up his attention like a neglected puppy. My voice takes on an edge. "Why do you care? I've ignored you for days." His smile fades. He looks serious, mockingly so. "Yeah. You got to stop that.

O Nanak, serve with this intuitive awareness; only that which is pleasing to the Lord is approved.

Don't knock homespun. All comfort food is homespun, and according to you and my cooking magazines, comfort food is the trend. You do what you do, do it as best you can, and if you don't win, at least you know you didn't compromise who you are in an effort to please someone else.

What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.

Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.

Whether your pleasing or pissing everybody off, your doing something wrong.

Cambridge produces in abundance talents with the ability to please, but few with that greater ability to disregard whether they please or not.

Nice Girl Syndrome: Nice girls suffer from the disease to please - they put their needs behind everyone else's.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Non so quale sia la chiave del successo, ma la chiave del fallimento è il cercare di piacere a tutti.

The closer we draw to God, the less we ask what is permissible ("What can I get away with and still be a Christian?") and the more we think about what pleases God.

Eloquence. There must be elements both pleasing and real, but what is pleasing must itself be drawn from what is true.

Treat this as a warning, I said. Be on your guard. 16 will not wear his ill intentions in his face. It is very likely he will be pleasing to the eyes. His manners will be friendly and insinuating. That is how he intends to destroy you.

You have a cool effrontery, my friend, that is altogether delightful.

To snuff a candle is pleasing. But to finish you, my dear, is to blot out a sun. How could I resist it?

No matter how badly you want to please someone, you can only put up a false front for so long.

But does a decent man make promises just to please a woman? Isn't it more honest to refuse to?" "I don't like that sort of honesty. It's not honesty, it's lack of steadiness.