Best 452 quotes in «please quotes» category

Then, you must fall each into your proper place. You'll do your business, and she, if she's worthy of you, will do hers; but it's your business to please yourself, and hers to please you.

There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.

The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success.

The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.

There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.

There is nothing that pleases me more than a beautiful sentence ... It is something that satisfies me.

There. I've said everything I wanted to say without actually having to use the words "please stay

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

The works of God are not accomplished when we wish them, but whenever it pleases Him.

The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.

The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.

The world is coming to an end. Please log off.

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

Those things please more, which are more expensive.

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

Those who wish well towards their friends disdain to please them with words which are not true.

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.

Time, time, time, see what's become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please

To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.

To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us

Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.

They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases.

This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares.

This is an attraction based Universe. You cannot say no. You are always saying, 'Yes please, yes please, yes please,' with your attention.

Time is life. Anyone who wastes my time is killing me. Please don't!

To please the many is to displease the wise.

To the Tax Office: All is over between us. Please don't attempt to communicate with me again.

Treason pleases, but not the traitor.

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

Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.

Was I wearing my 'I'm done with my virginity, please get rid of it for me' T-shirt?

We aim to please... You aim too, please.

We didn't stow away!" Dan protested. "You sunk our boat and pulled us out of the canal!" "Good point," Ian agreed. "Return them to the canal. Roughly, please.

We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else.

We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.

Well, I really don't know what the secret of success is but I can tell you that the secret of failure is to try to please everyone.

Well, by all means please let's decentralize policing.

We can't hold hands― Someone might see. Won't you please Hold toes with me?

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.

What has pleased and continues to please, is likely to please again; hence are derived the rules of art, and on this immovable foundation they must ever stand.

We're very aware that you cannot please everybody and that there's going to be backlash. There will always be backlash.

What is a good advertisement? An advertisement which pleases you because of its style, or an advertisement which sells the most? They are seldom the same.

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

What's a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.

We please God most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms.