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Whatever we do to please or harm others, we do to ourselves. — Marty Rubin

In trying to please all, he had pleased none. — Aesop

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 others. — Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

Often we lose our identity trying to please or placate others. — Mary Manin Morrissey

Trying to please others before pleasing God is inverting the first and second great commandments. — Lynn G. Robbins

The increased desire to please God and seek HIS approval will decrease the desire to seek approval from man. — Yvonne Pierre

I suppose it's natural to some people to please without trying, and others to always say and do the wrong thing in the wrong place. — Louisa May Alcott

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

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself. — Artie Shaw

In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others. — George Robinson

Love doesn't please itself by seeking revenge. Love sacrifices itself for the good of others. — Kerrelyn Sparks

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. — Pythagoras

I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works. — Tori Amos

Write what pleases you.
If you please others in the process it's a bonus. — Roy A. Higgins

In the end, the only one you can ever really please is yourself. How others feel is up to them. — Nicholas Sparks

Live to please the others, and everyone will love you, except yourself. — Paulo Coelho

In love, we are best pleased when we please others. — Norm MacDonald

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process. — Dave Pelzer

Our greatest duty and our main responsibility is to help others. But please, if you can't help them, would you please not hurt them. — Dalai Lama

The Lord blesses people who bless others, and He gives grace to those who focus on the things that please Him. — Billy Graham

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours. — Anne Hathaway

Please yourself, not others ... It must first work for you if it is ever to be useful to others. — Paul Laseau

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others. — Marianne Moore

In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose. — Epictetus

Please one and you'll live to please the rest — Dee Dee Artner

Do not try to please others by changing your beliefs. Your beliefs can be the force that can change the system. — Henry Johnson Jr

Being aware of our feelings sounds easy, but it's not because many of us spend our entire lives pushing feelings aside as we try to please others. — Sue Patton Thoele

I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please. — John Wayne

This truth, that I have to please only God, is an important key to becoming resistant to being manipulated by disapproval from others. — Rick Warren

Love does not seek to please itself, but offers itself and its life to others. — Frederick Lenz

There were no route maps posted on the walls, but a Wonderland-style sign commanding, 'If you know where you are, then please tell others. — Elizabeth Wein

There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted. — Angie Stone

Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one. — Benjamin Franklin

When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest. — Marcel Proust

When you're hounded by the shame of the past, you can turn into a pretty miserable person who is always trying to measure up and please others. — Ed Cyzewski

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others. — Benjamin Franklin

Let's face it. It's already hard being yourself, so why do we insist on adding pressure trying to please others. — Atlanta Hunter

Individuals are honest only to the extent that suits them (including their desire to please others) — Dan Ariely

Lord ... please help us overcome our despair,
So we can help others overcome theirs.
Amen! — Timothy Pina

Please understand nearly every concept I hold near and dear has been stolen from others much brighter and better than me. — Dan John

If you feel that you can solve others problems, then please, work little more on your own problems and solve them first. — Honeya

If you try to please everyone, you will please no one. It is impossible to lead your life for others' happiness. — Sudha Murty

Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others. — Myrtle Reed

Say to yourself: 'Living essentially to please others is a monumental mistake.' — George Robinson

If you wish to please me, and to bring success and honour to yourself, do right and study, because others will help you if you help yourself. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Those who glory in their looks - not in their hearts - dress to please others. — Clement Of Alexandria

Virtues should not be seen as a medium to please others, else, they'll always fall short. They should, first, be a medium of self-edification. — Ufuoma Apoki

The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone. — Edwin Louis Cole

I'd been doing everything to please everyone else and some imaginary me. — Jolene Stockman

Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or respect for what was in others. — Ben Hecht

The more we try to please others, the more we become unhappy. — Raj Singh

The things which belong to others please us more, and that which is ours, is more pleasing to others — Publilius Syrus

Changes made to please others are unrealistic, but more important, they're unfair to you. — Martina Navratilova

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

You have no one to please but yourself, and you should demand others accept you for who you are. Don't let anyone tell you you're not enough. — Terri Osburn

I don't really care what others think of me. You're not going to please everybody. I care what I think and what my children and my husband thinks. — Lisa Vanderpump

I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive! — Kim Kardashian

Don't always deprive yourself trying to please others — Sunday Adelaja

That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself. — Ovid

Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect. — Craig Groeschel

Whatever culture, whatever country, girls are taught to please others as opposed to pleasing themselves. — Eve Ensler

I've lived most of my life trying to please others. I don't think I can do that anymore. — Debbie Macomber

Writing is cathartic when you write to please yourself not others. — C.C. Wyatt