If you will please people, you must please them in your own way.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be plea...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleas...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD You can’t be “it” for everyone. In fact, if you try to please everyone, you will please no one...
AMBER HURDLE People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Ca...
KANYE WEST If you wait, I will come for you...remembering your touch, your kiss, your warm embrace. I'll My fin...
TRACY CHAPMAN Please all, and you will please none.
AESOP Please all, and you will please none
AESOP If you wish to have children, please do something for the world you will bring them into. That will ...
THICH NHAT HANH Dear Friend,
Please be patient with me; I need to grieve in my own way and in my own time.
Ple...
MARGARET BROWNLEY The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a dist...
MAX BEERBOHM Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if ...
A.L. KENNEDY If you can't please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not ...
ANTHONY LICCIONE You can't please all men, but you must desire to please God and love Him forever more.
BAMIGBOYE OLUROTIMI Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I have entered Your Sanctuary, Lord; please save me, as You have saved the idiots and fools.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
MARK TWAIN God please give me patience, if you give me strength I will just punch them in the face.
ANONYMOUS People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt...
KANYE WEST Though he continued to take classes here and there in the sciences and in business, Ralph also took ...
RAYMOND CARVER If you must cry over spilled milk then please try to condense it
SOURCE UNKNOWN If you love animals, please don't eat them.
ESHA GUPTA If you come in for the day, please bring your own food and water and have enough fuel for your vehic...
DICK NUGENT You want to make people laugh and by virtue of that please them, but when you're instructed to m...
SARAH SILVERMAN If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the o...
SARAH MCLACHLAN Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, p...
NORTON JUSTER If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent ...
BILL NYE Please protect me here and hereafter, O Lord, Merciful to the meek. I seek Your Sanctuary; please bl...
ATHARVA VEDA We can avoid ignorance with education. Please give importance to this. If you have a kid, please sen...
JULIO FERNANDEZ Everybody that listens to something hears it differently from their own perspective. And you can'...
BUDDY DEFRANCO Public transportation notice: "When you exit this vehicle, please be sure to lower your head and
wat...
UNKNOWN Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
MARK TWAIN You keep the fast to please Allah, but slay life for your relish..But you do not reflect on the Lord...
KABIR Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg.
MARGARET LAURENCE Please, please be very, very diligent in what you do. Your actions could affect more than just yours...
BENNIE SETH That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.
OVID This is your life, not someone else's. It is your own feeling of what is important, not what people ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Not only will you sleep with me, but you will say 'please.'"
I stared at him, shocked.
Th...
ILONA ANDREWS Please give them the support that you will be giving to each other.
ALEX ALDAPE I hope you read this, whoever you are, and imagine that there is a hypothetical person out there who...
CHARLES YU I will please shut the hell up the day you please drop the hell dead
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS If you are 90 years old, please see your Doctor before chewing sugarcane
SOTONYE ANGA The True Lord, the Formless One, is Himself in His Own Place. I have heard, over and over again, and...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB A circle of women may just be the most powerful force known to humanity. If you have one, embrace it...
JEANETTE LEBLANC When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them s...
HARRY BROWNE Please. Please. I'm just asking you to turn yourself in.
LAURA FLEMING Please others and you please yourself
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA You definitely cannot please everyone at all.
YVONNE STRAHOVSKI What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.
GARY LINEKER You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.
RICKY NELSON You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you.
KATIE COURIC If you ever hear that there is a show called 'Helen', shoot me, will you please?
HELEN HUNT We are nothing without them, our scars and our blemishes. Take away our delusional smiles if you mus...
SHRUTI UPADHAYA Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway.
EMANUEL AX You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business.
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, four...
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MAYA ANGELOU You hold my heart in your hand, do whatever you please with it, you will just do as much damage as y...
OLIVIA LACY You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
ALEXANDER POPE I can assure you we will work with you. If there is something that upsets you, please call.
BILL BOHNENSTIEHL But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.
AYN RAND You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove...
BRYAN SINGER I know that happy things and fun things eventually come to an end. But things that are scary and sad...
NATSUKI TAKAYA Your Majesty, please get down. My friend Aris is really a very good man, and if you fall off that wa...
MEGAN WHALEN TURNER Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway.
EMANUEL AX Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, ...
ZEDD Hide them all, then. Keep her – them – safe. Please.'
And what will you give me in return, ...
J.K. ROWLING Which way did they go, Peeves?" Filch was saying. "Quick, tell me."
"Say 'please.'"
"Don...
J.K. ROWLING Will you please tell me you love me? I’m dying here.
STEPHANIE PERKINS If you mean to profit, learn to please.
WINSTON CHURCHILL If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.
NATASHA HAMILTON Lord, please do this ... or do something better!
PRISCILLA SHIRER Come as you are, leave as you please, with Christ in your heart, and God on your sleeve.
MATT ROTERT Whatever life you lead you must put your soul in it--to make any sort of success in it; and from the...
HENRY JAMES The white people can go wherever they please and they will not be disturbed by us, and I want you to...
BLACK KETTLE Please remember to curb your dogs when you are walking in this area.
MATTHEW BRODERICK And if it please you, so; if not, why, so.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think you'll find out you'll be happier too,
If you think more of others and less about you.
SHERRILL S. CANNON Don't go into the business of pleasing people. You can't please everybody. Simply do your best at wh...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Please." It's one word, but the way I say it means so much more. Please don’t say anything. Please...
CAREY HEYWOOD When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose your self-worth in the process.
AULIQ ICE There are people who feel they should be with you, but something is preventing them from coming clos...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON You have attained maturity; display it for us, if you please.
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON Even a liberal city will have a prehistoric homophobe. After a show in Washington State, this guy ca...
JAMES ADOMIAN Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
DORRIS LESSING Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself
DORIS LESSING Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases, think for yourself.
CHARLES SEYMOUR Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING You cannot please everyone. Don't try to or else you will breakdown
SOTONYE ANGA Please, please don't try hurting me, my friends.
I wouldn't forgive myself If I had to kill you...
TOBA BETA You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can p...
BRYAN SINGER We strongly urge people if you do not have to get out, please stay at home.
CLIFFORD GALEY Thy will be done, my Lord. Because you know the weakness in the heart of your
children, and you...
PAULO COELHO And if you mean to profit, learn to please.
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DANA CARVEY Please once in your life time apologize when you are wrong. It won't diminish your dignity instead i...
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