You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there if it's received great I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received great I respect you for not.

If we have been pleased with life we should not be displeased with death since it comes from the hand of the same master.

When I realized I was having trouble reading I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.

The earth was made so various that the mind Of desultory man studious of change And pleased with novelty might be indulged.

I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above and we'd think: Oh please Lord don't make us go through that.

You want to make sure this particular car is going to please the customer and then you're going to be rewarded with something that is going to please the shareholder.

Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone and that's fine.

Instead it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.

Beauty like ice our footing does betray Who can tread sure on the smooth slippery way: Pleased with the surface we glide swiftly on And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.

When you retire it's a place in life a part of the journey. You just don't quit work you develop an attitude where you can do what you please.

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is 'What's in it for me?'

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

This year as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.

I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

When you stand alone and sell yourself you can't please everyone. But when you're different you can last.

It is the fight alone that pleases us not the victory.

The struggle alone pleases us not the victory.