Pleasing Others Quotes

“Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.”
― Jim Carrey

“To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Never seek to please anyone. Seek to evolve thyself.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“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

“You strive to please others, to fit in, and feel accepted. In spite of that, you still don’t feel accepted, and not because others don’t accept you, but because you haven’t accepted yourself as you are.”
― Dragos Bratasanu, The Pursuit of Dreams: Claim Your Power, Follow Your Heart, and Fulfill Your Destiny

“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

“Sometimes you aren’t listening to your body because you’re listening to everybody else’s expectations.”
― Ann Voskamp

“We cannot please all men but we can be a blessing to many.”
― Mac Canoza

“The results of my work don't have much to do with me. I can only be in charge of producing the work itself. That's a hard enough job. I refuse to take on additional jobs, such as trying to police what anybody thinks about my work once it leaves my desk.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“I am not here to please myself so don't expect me to please others.”
― Amit Abraham

“I'd failed to live up to the expectations of my parents. I had not utilized my education in any real way and I'd given up on my marriage. For the first time, I accepted that I could not meet the expectations of others and make myself happy at the same time. Being true to myself had led me here--onto a wild trail in the middle of the night--not into a nine-to-five and the creation of my own family. I hated myself for not being able to conform happily. I hated myself for trying and failing. I loved myself for choosing to do what was right for me, no matter the cost. I forgave myself for trying to please others when I knew it wasn't right for me.”
― Heather "Anish" Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

“We all have a life to live! We all have unique and distinctive purposes to fulfill! Everybody has a purpose on earth, and everybody must live the true purpose why God gives life to us each day! You are not on earth to compete with anybody but your true purpose. You are not on earth to compare yourself to anybody, but the you in you and the true purpose for which you came here! Life is good when you don’t compare yourself in a manner that will make you feel bad. Life is good when you know your true purpose in life and who you must live to be and to please! You fulfill your true you distinctively when you understand you are you and not anybody! So many people are living others destiny just because they have neglected their own true purpose! So many people think badly just because they compare themselves wrongfully with others and things! Everybody has a life and everybody must live a life! If there is any reason to compare yourself to others and things, let it be the inspiration you get from comparing yourself with others and things that makes you do something unique! There is a true reason for our existence on earth and we must reason from nothing, but the true reason why we live each day!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Yet being in the spotlight is also dangerous because a child's success may be construed by a narcissistic mother as competition. In self-defense, a son or daughter may insist that any achievement is a fluke, and any award is undeserved or is really a tribute to their mother. They suppress their own healthy narcissism to please a mother . . they believe any success is a mistake and at any moment they will be "found out" and identified as a fake or a fraud. The mind-set is, "I am succeeding because I can fake excellence, but inside I am not really worthy or not really able." Such self-effacement is common in people who are pressured to excel and also primed to assure others . . . that they are subservient and inferior.”
― Terri Apter, Difficult Mothers: Understanding and Overcoming Their Power

“The most profound life lesson I have learned from 15 years of psychic mediumship work, is how quickly and easily people are forgotten once they depart this life. Yet, so many of us live only to please or impress others while we are here.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“The wind is blowing. Don’t bend if you want to please him.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“People who allow their situations and other people to change who they are each die having been many people.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The key to having fewer disappointments in life is to stop pleasing people. Your true calling is to please God.”
― Farshad Asl

“There’s a very fine line between trying to please others and making sure that your own needs are being met.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“Please others and you please yourself”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Forgo the futile pursuit of pleasing others, and focus on pleasing God. You’ll never be disappointed.”
― Farshad Asl

“Trying to please everyone is like trying to fly. Take it from me, worst experience ever.”
― Bhekisipho Nyathi

“With too much respect you will end up as a weakling. Keep everything balanced. Don't exaggerate anything, nor please others for your own ruin.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Don't burn yourself, to keep others warm.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Life is yet to produce someone who is loved by or important to everyone.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The tail is a vestigial organ in humans but still wagged.”
― Amit Abraham

“The reward feels good, and we keep doing what others want us to do in order to get the reward. With that fear of being punished and that fear of not getting the reward, we start pretending to be what we are not, just to please others, just to be good enough for someone else. We try to please Mom and Dad, we try to please the teachers at school, we try to please the church, and so we start acting. We pretend to be what we are not because we are afraid of being rejected. The fear of being rejected becomes the fear of not being good enough. Eventually we become someone that we are not. We become a copy of Mamma's beliefs, Daddy's beliefs, society's beliefs, and religion's beliefs.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

“There's more rewards in leading the crowd, than pleasing it.”
― T.F. Hodge

“Don't be afraid of losing people, but be afraid of losing yourself trying to make everyone happy.”
― Naguib Mahfouz

“He somehow managed to convey an eagerness to please yet was skeptical as to whether he should; it was a self-betrayal countenance.”
― J.S. Mason, Whisky Hernandez

“You can't please people who aren't pleased with themselves.”
― Marion Bekoe