Honest Quote by Marianne Moore Download Open image “Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.” — Marianne Moore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Honest Please Truth Writing
Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
You can't worry about pleasing other people; you have to please yourself. — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
individuals are honest only to the extent that suits them (including their desire to please others) — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
I've never been good at pleasing everyone. So I decided to focus on pleasing myself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Accept that you’ll never please everyone and you’re on your way to pleasing the right ones.” — Elena D. Calin Copy Share Image
There comes a time when you should stop trying to please everyone and just focus on pleasing yourself. — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
You should be a pleasing personality. Instead of thinking about how you should be pleased, I don't like this, I don't do like that,… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Victory won't come to me unless I go to it; a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“Do the poet and scientist not work analogously? Both are willing to waste effort. To be hard on himself is one ...of the main… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
How strong is a faith that can't stand up to a few honest questions? — Kenneth C. Davis Copy Share Image
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living. — Moliere Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I don't know - to be honest, I don't really model myself after anybody. — Diego Klattenhoff Copy Share Image
There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said. — Pete Waterman Copy Share Image
I have often spoken of integrity as the most important of these values, realizing that integrity – and personal integrity, at that – is… — Verghese Kurien Copy Share Image
I used to not be really honest with girls and then I dropped a song called Starry Room and then I started turning over… — Jaden Smith Copy Share Image