pleasing Quotes

Please others and you please yourself

- Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

Eloquence.— We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true.

- Blaise Pascal, The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

People pleasing does make it easier to ignore the red flags of abusive relationships at the very early stages especially with covert manipulators. We can also become conditioned to continually “please” if we’re used to walking on eggshells around our abuser.

- Shahida Arabi, Becoming the Narcissist's Nightmare: How to Devalue and Discard the Narcissist While Supplying Yourself

The wind is blowing. Don’t bend if you want to please him.

- Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

Don't go into the business of pleasing people. You can't please everybody. Simply do your best at what you do

- Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

Happiness depends upon two things—pleasing God, and then pleasing yourself.

- Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway

I’ll be blasted’, he said, ‘if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, I’ll write, from this day forward, to please myself

- Virginia Woolf

Just two choices on the shelf, pleasing God or pleasing self.

- Kenneth E. Collier

Trying to please everybody is what you'll soon get tired of, because as time goes on, those you're pleasing will get tired of you.

- Michael Bassey Johnson

Friendship is not by force but by choice.You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.

- Stella Oladiran, Winning Formulas

You focus on telling stories,
we do everything else.