Quotes About Pleasing

The reason steampunk attracts people is that it is premised on a technology which is visible and pleasing to the naked eye, and whose moving parts are comprehensible on a human scale.

God is the One I am trying to please. . . . If I wanted to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ. —GALATIANS 1:10 ICB

Value your personal difference. If you try pleasing your friends, you'll lose your authentic self.

Lord, I want to know You the best a man can know You. I want to please You the best a man can please You. Show me Your heart, reveal to me what is important to You, and show me what is not so important to You. Teach me Your ways and may my life bring joy to You . . .

What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and the work flow.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

The desire to please other people is a potent way to distract yourself from what you are feeling.

In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.

I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.

As The Register of Santa Ana, California, would report, Prowse had a habit of "giving away plot secrets." "He doesn't mean to," Hamill says. "He just has this real child-like quality to please." "David talks his head off," Kershner says.

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. (Romans 12:2)

We must not confuse the command to love with the disease to please. And it's not just because of the vicious cycles of people pleasing, although that's part of it. I miss Best Yes opportunities sometimes because I simply don't know they're part of the equation. I get all twisted up in making the decision to check either the Yes or No box, not realizing there is a third box that reads Best Yes.

You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time".

I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.

You can't please everybody. There's that old saying that there's no sure formula for success, but the only sure fire formula for failure is to try to please everyone. You're not going to do that.

There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

It's strange how people hurt those who love and care about them, and try to please those don't.

they are equally pleasing to Him, since all of them followed the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and since the Lord has said: "Tell the just man ALL is well."259 Yes, all is well when one seeks only the will [10]of Jesus,

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

If you once love Him, you will study to please Him.