Pleasing Quotes

446 quotes by 365 authors

I try to make my things aesthetically pleasing; but, if it isnâ€™t functional, people will â€˜ooâ€™ and â€˜aahâ€™ over it in an exhibit but they… — Sam Maloof
If there is not at least a yearning in our hearts to live a holy life pleasing to God, we need to seriously question whether… — Jerry Bridges
Before I discovered the concept of the 5 love languages, a bit of advice I was given was to become a student of my wife… — Gary Chapman
School typically doesn't prepare young people for real life - unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my opinion, that's why… — Ray Dalio
See that ye all follow the bishop, even as Jesus Christ does the Father, and the presbytery as ye would the apostles; and reverence the… — Ignatius of Antioch
Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself. — Publilius Syrus
The temptation many creative people I know have is to strive for popularity. To make, do, and say things that other people like in the… — Scott Berkun
Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume… — Sei Shonagon
God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his… — Saint Augustine
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
But we need to pray daily for humility and honesty to see these sinful attitudes for that they really are, and then for grace and… — Jerry Bridges
Cookery, or the art of preparing good and wholesome food, and of preserving all sorts of alimentary substances in a state fit for human sustenance,… — Friedrich Accum
The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed. — Niklaus Wirth
The study of Freemasonry is the study of man as a candidate for a blessed eternity. It furnishes examples of holy living, and displays the… — William Howard Taft
Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can… — Marcus Aurelius
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… — Henry Fielding
It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after… — Ian Mcewan
A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think,… — William Shakespeare
Find thoughts that feel good, because it is inevitable that you are going to always be moving toward something. So why not be moving toward… — Esther Hicks
Ah, how lucky are the lieutenants, the six-foot Junkers, and all the rest of the Don Juan clan!... The bookworm, be he ever so decent… — Theodor Fontane

Who Wrote These Pleasing Quotes

365 authors contributed a total of 446 Pleasing Quotes, led by these top contributors: