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Quotes About Expectations

I'm very much a people-pleaser, and with a book out, I had to learn that you can't please everybody with your book.
~ Becky Albertalli
It must be horrible to do things that you don't like hoping to please other people, and they don't like it either, and you've got to eat it.
~ Melvin Van Peebles
All the time, even before we had mainstreamed, it was like we were never really Christians because of the way we looked. Or, you know, we were never Christian enough, or we're too Christian at times. You can't please people.
~ Sonny Sandoval
It's impossible to please everybody all of the time, but you just have to believe that you're making decisions for the right reasons.
~ Gareth Southgate
Sometimes, you have to sacrifice your talent to please the public.
~ Govinda
It's hard to please everyone, and I learnt quite early that that's never going to happen.
~ Joe Hart
You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.
~ Dylan Moran
You can't please everyone... you win some you lose some!
~ Sarah Harding
I think the danger is to try and please everyone.
~ Charlie Cox
I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.
~ Maria Sharapova
It ends up being a terrible movie if you try and please everyone.
~ Jennifer Coolidge
No President can achieve everything or please everyone.
~ Max Boot
You can't please everyone in life, which is especially true for great stars.
~ Marquinhos
Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.
~ Richard Engel
Between 2008 and 2010 I exhausted myself because I wanted to please everyone.
~ Mario Gomez
We don't try to please everyone. Those older fans who expect something from The Roots are a tad more important to me than getting new fans.
~ Black Thought
I think 'Game Of Thrones' is incredibly true to the books. I think the fans will, hopefully, be very pleased with how true to the books we are.
~ Emilia Clarke
I always say I make the movies where people go, 'Hey, I never saw it, but when I finally did, I really liked it.' People saw 'Baby Driver,' though. I was pleased with that.
~ Jon Hamm
English clubs should not be pleased to go to places like Barcelona and get away without a thrashing. They should be able to compete. They have the resources.
~ Paul Scholes
Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.
~ Kevin Nealon
I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.
~ John Frusciante
I'm a pleaser, but it's not a good thing because you forget about pleasing yourself at the end of the day.
~ Nikki Bella
This is the kind of world I was born in, one in which I had only one reason for existence: pleasing others.
~ Mickey Rooney
The only thing you can worry about is pleasing yourself and that's probably more impossible than pleasing other people.
~ Ben Howard