You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself. — Pierce Brosnan
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone. — Bill Cosby
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone. — Bill Cosby
I'm definitely a people pleaser. I like people to be happy around me and be comfortable. I go out of my way, sometimes to a fault, to make sure everyone is okay. — Ken Jeong
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. — Bill Cosby
You can't please everybody. You['d] be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself. — Nas
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody. — Herbert Bayard Swope
You can't be everything to everybody, but you can be everything to somebody. Don't lose the ones you love trying to please the world — Trent Shelton
You're not really free until you're free from trying to please everybody. — Joel Osteen
There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying. — Joel Rosenberg
All I can do is follow my instincts, because I'll never please everyone. — Emma Watson
It'd be nice to please everyone but I thought it would be more interesting to have a point of view. — Oscar Levant
In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose. — Epictetus
No one can please everyone. Your mental peace is more important. If you are in peace, then others around you will feel peace. So your best effort should be to work on yourself. — Baba Hari Dass
Short Trying To Please Everyone Quotes
A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away. — Charles M. Schwab
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others. — Marianne Moore
That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself. — Ovid
People striving for approval from others become phony. — Ichiro Suzuki
When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process. — Dave Pelzer
If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people. — Leo Tolstoy
The art of pleasing is the art of deception. — Marquis De Vauvenargues
A broad idea appeals to everyone. — Joe Gatto
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Pleasing Everyone Quotes
When we speak for the poor, please note that we do not take sides with one social class. What we do is invite all social classes, rich and poor, without distinction, saying to everyone let us take seriously the cause of the poor as though it were our own. — Oscar Romero
When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last. — Don Rickles
You’ll never please everyone. Find those who like the real you and invite them closer. All others don’t matter to you. — Mo Gawdat
You're a work of art. Not everyone will understand you, but the ones who do, will never forget about you.
Be happy. Be yourself. If others don't like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn't about pleasing everybody. — John Spence
Ladies and gentlemen, you can't please everyone. Take my girlfriend - I think she's the most remarkable woman in the world. . . . That's me . . . But to my wife . . . — Jackie Mason
You can’t please everyone so don’t try. — Gary Keller
Stop trying to calm the storm. Calm yourself, the storm will pass.
So, this is to everybody who's ever had a struggle in life being yourself. I think that the most beautiful thing a human being can do is just be who you are inside. So please, everybody, just be yourselves and encourage everyone else to do the same. — Josh Hutcherson
I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine. — Marlee Matlin
You can't please everybody. There's that old saying that there's no sure formula for success, but the only sure fire formula for failure is to try to please everyone. You're not going to do that. — Matt Bomer
You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can't. — Annie Leibovitz
You see how it is, my dear friends. There's no pleasing everyone. It's hopeless to even try, and the more you play the peacemaker, the less peaceful things become. — Sholom Aleichem
One of the most important decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.
You can waste so much energy trying to make everyone happy, but at the end of the day it's impossible to please everyone, so you just need to focus on what makes you happy. — Lauren Conrad
You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can’t. It’s important to stay the course. I don’t think I would have lasted this long if I’d listened to anyone. You have to listen somewhat and then put that to the side and know that what you do matters. — Annie Leibovitz
You can't go through life trying to please everyone. — Jacob Vargas
Life's too short to spend it trying to keep others happy. You can't please everyone. To fulfill your destiny, stay true to your heart. — Joel Osteen
If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run. — Viggo Mortensen
Well, I really don't know what the secret of success is but I can tell you that the secret of failure is to try to please everyone. — Bill Cosby
You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just have to write stories you would want to read and hope that people like them. — Sayings
You can't please everyone and trying to do so is the kiss of death. — Criss Angel
There is no sure path to success, but the surest path to failure is trying to please everyone. — Tim Ferriss
A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much. — Chuck D.
Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone... Bad food is fake food... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives. — Anthony Bourdain
It's a heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody. My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can and provide entertainment for everyone who wanted to watch basketball. Obviously, people may not agree with that; again, I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do. — Michael Jordan
There are a lot of new sounds I've gone for, which I may not have been ready to go for in the past, especially moving away from just rapping. I really tried to push my songwriting side on this one. I think that, for better or worse, people have definitely been able to tell. Changing style is always gonna be a love/hate thing for people, but I love it all, and I can't please everyone so that's all that matters. — Illy
With my designs and my ideas, I want to please myself first. I'm always very stressed about making a new proposition every season. But in a way, it's a kind of addiction. In another way, it's a crazy pressure. I try to stay quiet about the whole situation, because fashion itself can be crazy, and everyone wants a part of you. — Nicolas Ghesquiere
I can't please everyone. I am trying not to let the pressure consume me. — Roxane Gay
I try to practice my religion in a very devout way and follow the teachings of my church in my own personal life, but I don't believe in America, a first amendment nation, where we don't raise any religion over the other, and we allow people to worship they please, that the doctrines of any religion should be mandated for everyone. — Tim Kaine
The concern about what's too violent or what's too scary is something that I just completely don't let enter into my creative process. I feel like, if I spend a lot of time trying to worry about whether it will appeal to everyone and who will like it and who won't, and I try to please everyone, I'll just spread myself too thin and lose my mind. — Alex Hirsch
As brands become larger, the need to reach greater numbers of customers makes them less edgy and dilutes their unique positioning as they try to please everyone. It is therefore not surprising to find such brands go into a few years of decline before they are able to reinvent themselves. — Nirmalya Kumar
Don’t try to please everyone. There are countless people who don’t want one, haven’t heard of one or actively hate it. So what? — Seth
My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him. — Ang Lee
There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone. — Will Rogers
You cannot and should not try to please everyone. Make sure that the right people like you, and it will be expected that others will not. That's how the world works. — David Maister
Great leaders don't try to please everyone. Great leaders don't water down their message in order to make the tribe a bit bigger. Instead, they realize that a motivated, connected tribe in the midst of a movement is far more powerful than a larger group could ever be. — Seth Godin
Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone. — Richard Engel
Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like Shrek or The Simpsons, Robin Hood manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways. — Richard Armitage
You can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newton's demographics. When I do, I'll know that it's time to quit. — Criss Angel
Ive found that if you just try to make the film you want, youll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, youre going to make really boring films. — Drew Goddard
Mitt Romney was a guest on 'The Tonight Show' on NBC. It's interesting — you have an empty suit trying to please everyone, and then Romney comes out. — David Letterman
Please don't drive drunk, okay? Seriously... But by all means, walk drunk. That looks hilarious. Everyone loves to watch someone act like they are trying to make it to safety during a hurricane. — Amy Poehler
I think people are tired of religion and how it divides and damages people. You can name it whatever you want, Islam or Christianity, but if you have a system in which God is distant and angry all the time, and you're trying to please him through the right disciplines, it isn't going to work for everyone. — William P. Young
There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else. — Benjamin Franklin
I strive to live with passion and not to be desensitised to life. Things matter to me. You’ve got to live like that. Otherwise what’s the point? It’s not possible to please everyone and there is no point in trying to be what other people think you should be. For me, it’s important to be who I am, not just to be different but to be as authentic as I can be. — Pep Guardiola
I can say that I am only human and I have made mistakes. I can say that I try to live my life in the most true, honest way that I can. I am not perfect, no one is. No one is harder on me than me. No one can please everyone. No one can live in the past and expect to grow. I have been moving forward and hope that I am not defined by just a few moments in my life but all of the moments that will make up my life. — Chris Brown
It's heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody . . . My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can, ... People may not agree with that . . . I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do. — Michael Jordan
That's all this job is, Daine," she explained. "Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better. — Tamora Pierce
You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off. — Lauren DeStefano
Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it. I don't know all the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone. — Rick Warren
Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please. — Francine Rivers
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