Please Others Quotes

48 quotes by 45 authors

Say to yourself: 'Living essentially to please others is a monumental mistake.' — George Robinson
What other people think of us usually has very little to do with who we are. It has a lot more to do with the… — Beverly Engel
I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works. — Tori Amos
You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours. — Anne Hathaway
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order… — Charles Caleb Colton
Changes made to please others are unrealistic, but more important, they're unfair to you. — Martina Navratilova
Don't live to please others. Don't think everyone else knows what's right or true. Listen to yourself, and be true to yourself. That way, no… — Jane Porter
Those who glory in their looks - not in their hearts - dress to please others. — Clement of Alexandria
The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives we will see… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Those who enter to buy, support me. Those who come to flatter, please me. Those who complain, teach me how I may please others so… — Marshall Field
Good girls don't hurt other people's feelings. Good girls are not overly aggressive, competitive, or boastful. Good girls please others. But what good girls are… — Susan Jane Gilman
A woman puts on a new dress eyeliner lip gloss to please others. A woman paints her toes to please herself. And if there was… — Molly Harper
The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny… — Bell Hooks
In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose. — Epictetus
Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like… — Guy Finley
Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even… — Arthur Frederick Saunders
If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other… — Benjamin Franklin
When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest. — Marcel Proust
That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself. — Ovid
Having emotional independence means we are no longer tied to the need for constant approval and are, therefore, not coerced into doing more than we… — Sue Thoele

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