Please Quotes

He labors vainly, who endeavors to please every person.

We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our endeavors are exerted in consequence of our duty.

Please all, and you will please none.

If you try to please everyone, someone is not going to like it.

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.

Writers, composers, entertainers and such know an awful truth: it is easier to please a million people you don’t know than to please one you do know.

Please, v. To lay the foundation for a superstructure of imposition.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

If you will please people, you must please them in their own way.

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.