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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.

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
Pleasing Others, Firsts, Playing It Safe
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

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

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

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
Pleasing Others, Contentment, Able

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

Janet Jackson
Pleasing Others, People, Worry
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

Dr. Seuss
Pleasing Others, Mold, Want

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

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

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, Pleasing Others, People
Source: www.guernicamag.com

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

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, Pleasing Others, People
Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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, Pleasing Others, Advantage

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, Pleasing Others, Merit

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