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Quotes About Pleasing

Be concerned with pleasing thy Creator.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
You must please God and not man with your ministry
~ Sunday Adelaja
I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough.
~ Boyd K. Packer
The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.
~ Alexander Hamilton
To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.
~ George Washington
I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
~ Jessamyn West
Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it's enchanting, it's delicious, and I hope it will please you.
~ Claude Monet
We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty.
~ Samuel Johnson
You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off.
~ Lauren DeStefano
I will do all things to please the Lord, for he is my inner strength. He gives and I recieve, though I should give my all like he did for me
~ Marcelo López
We can only please God, when we pray for his power.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged: no harm can be done.
~ Jane Austen
They learn to relate by caretaking, pleasing, isolating, or acting out rather than fully relating with their true and authentic selves. As a result, they feel accepted for their roles, not for who they were. Adult Children often have no idea how to have an equal partner relationship with healthy communication and normal conflict. As one ACOA said, "I feel that everyone else got a book at birth on how to live life, have relationships, and parent—and I never got my copy.
~ Jane Middelton-Moz
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
To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men . However, he attempted it.
~ Edmund Burke
The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Then most our trouble still when most admired, And still the more we give, the more required; Whose fame with pains we guard, but lose with ease, Sure some to vex, but never all to please.
~ Alexander Pope
Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.
~ Alexander Pope
When I was still settling into being a CEO, I wasted a lot of time driving initiatives designed to please others, acting as if someone wouldn't let me do what I wanted to do with Redfin.
~ Glenn Kelman
America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.
~ A. S. Byatt
You always want to please your choreographer, director. Dancers are just that way.
~ Chita Rivera
Am I trying to win the approval of human beings or God? If I were still trying to please people I would not be a servant of Christ.
~ Keylor Navas
You can't please people who don't really know you and, you know, I do think that one of the things I do want to do is please the people who matter to me and please the people that do know me.
~ Cherie Blair
If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your obligations to your fellow men.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll