Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.
Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.
The five most important words a leader can speak are - 'I am proud of you' The four most important are - 'What is your opinion?' The three most important are - 'If you please' The two most important are - 'Thank You' And the most important single word of all is - 'You'
Finally, please remember this. If you EVER need something that you can stand behind, something to help you to take on and deflect all of the hatred of this often cruel world, you will ALWAYS have Black Veil Brides.
Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
Please explain the problem to me slowly, as I do not understand things quickly.
Do what you do because Jesus is watching, not so you'll end up on some top 100 church list or be the envy of the next pastors gathering. That stuff doesn't matter. Be innovative because you believe people matter and you want to please Jesus.
Pray to God: It's all right if you don't love me, but please let me love you!
. . . Go somewhere else. Somewhere safer. ” Anywhere else. God, please. Or he was likely to do something horribly awful, like surrender his sanity and kiss her.
Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.
I intend to give my best, to improve things and to create the football team in relation to my image and my football philosophy. I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't. Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.
I admit I distorted intelligence to please Stalin because I feared him.
From my childhood it has been my conviction that men would reach the planets in my lifetime. . . this conviction. . . rests on two beliefs, one scientific and one political: (1) there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our present-day science. And we shall only find out what they are if we go out and look for them. (2) it is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of people can escape from their neighbors and from their governments, to go and live as they please in the wilderness.
I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.
You're never going to please everyone - you might as well be who God made you to be.
Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
No matter what you say to yourself, you do want to win. You try to look casual, like you're not thinking, 'oh, please pick me. '
I don't want to be influenced as to what I write in the next book, to hear those voices in my head when I'm writing. The idea of second-guessing your reader is dangerous, trying to please some notional reader looking over your shoulder, instead of just yourself.
Can we not say 'dumped' and 'Bellas' in the same sentence, please?
The fire to pursue God, the zeal to know God, and the humility to allow God to do whatever He pleases with our lives.