The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
“Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
...and if you hear something you know, please sing along. No wait - I take that back - you can't sing along… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
Please don't worry. It's a psychological complaint, common amongst ex-librarians. You see, she thinks she's a coffee table edition... — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Levante have gone fourth in Serie A. If anyone can tell me what part of Italy Levante is in, please call. I've… — Alan Brazil Copy Share Image
The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
I never get too many problems. You can never please everyone anyway, obviously. And some people take the easy route and just… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Please, please, please, my dear competition. We can beat each other and fight each other as much as we want and argue,… — Hasso Plattner Copy Share Image
I always feel like an idiot every time I fly first class because I’m a kid. And I just sit there, and… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me,… — Trinh T. Minh-ha Copy Share Image
And in addition to its practical uses, it would seem to work for cosmetic purposes. This powder would make my very skin… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Please," said Lirael..."I think I would like to work in this Library." "The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Dear God, Please teach me to forgive myself and others. Remove the walls that keep love out, behind which I am a… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Griffin, please,” she whispered. “Do you want me?” he asked. “Yes!” She tossed her head restlessly. She’d explode if he didn’t give… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
The preacher who is concerned with gaining a reputation, rising in his profession, is always in bondage. The itch for bigness is… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
I'm absolutely convinced that this is a world of appearances, not reality. There's one reality and that's Light and Love. When some… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself… — Francis Frangipane Copy Share Image
You have to negotiate from positions of strength. And right now with Iran, we're not negotiating from a position of strength. The… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
At some point during almost every romantic comedy, the female lead suddenly trips and falls, stumbling helplessly over something ridiculous like a… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
I defy you to try it, Princess. Go ahead. I don’t even know how to sweep a floor. All I know how… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
If you will please people, you must please them in their own way. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
When a man's ways please God, the stones of the street shall be at peace with him. — Walter Cradock Copy Share Image
