Pleasing Others Quotes

• Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority.

  Shakti Gawain

  Firsts, Playing It Safe, May

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Living in the Light: Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New Life and a New World”, p.102, New World Library

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• Don't conform for the sake of pleasing others. Mold yourself into the person that you want to be.

  Dr. Seuss

  Mold, Want, Sake

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• 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

  Being Yourself, Life Changing, Thinking

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• When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be able to make us miserable or dissatisfied. And then, if we know we have pleased God, contentment will be our consolation.

  Kay Arthur

  Contentment, Able, Approval

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• Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

  Marianne Moore

  Writing, Honest, Please

  Marianne Moore, Patricia C. Willis (1986). “The complete prose of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr

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• The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.

  Rachel Holmes

  Nice, People, Want

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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 so many students who succeed in school fail in life.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Real, School

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• You can't worry about pleasing other people; you have to please yourself.

  Janet Jackson

  People, Worry, Please

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think it's really important to follow your intuition and gut, and try not to do things just for the sake of pleasing other people.

  Erin Davie

  Thinking, People, Intuition

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying for them; they were grateful, they had to be; and they could no longer see me as a failure.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Grateful, Generosity, Money Power

  Hanif Kureishi (2009). “The Buddha of Suburbia”, p.260, Faber & Faber

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• Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Drinking, Wine

  "The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals".

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• A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful, they decide against him.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Merit, Addresses

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• To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

  Joseph Addison

  Single, Passion, Solitude

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.100

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• To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

  Walter Scott

  Good Night, Goodnight, Dream

  Sir Walter Scott (1826). “The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Etc”, p.82

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• I think it's the strange irony that we make all these life choices before we're 40, because really we shouldn't make any until we're 40. It almost feels like you get a software upgrade and you start to experience life in such a different way, because you just don't suffer fools, you go straight for what means something and what feels good, and you stop caring about pleasing other people.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Mean, Caring, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The photographer sees the world as a child sees the bits of glass in a kaleidoscope. If he has a camera with which he can secure these ever-changing combinations, he is then able to look on them again and again, and he has the further pleasure of pleasing others with the sight of things which he, with perhaps unusual opportunities, was able to see, which his friends would otherwise not ever be able to.

  Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

  Children, Opportunity, Glasses

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• Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Advantage, Ruling

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