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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.
Octavia Spencer
Hope
Art
Dreams
Great
You
Respect
Please Everyone
Whatever
Own
Live
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Please
Destiny
Out
Putting
Educate
Cannot
Fulfill
Your
Received
Receiving
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
William J. H. Boetcker
Self-Respect
You
Respect
People
Better
Please
Temporarily
Retain
Wrong
Know
Doing
Than
May
Them
Your
Displease
Right
You don't want to disappoint anybody, but you know, you lose your voice by trying to please everyone.
Diego Luna
You
Please Everyone
Lose
Everyone
Please
Voice
Disappoint
Know
Trying
Anybody
Want
Your
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
P. J. O'Rourke
You
Duty
Consequences
Damn
Please
Only
Take
Well
Human
Human Right
Right
Basic
The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.
Alexander Hamilton
Government
People
Will
Nothing
Benefit
Please
Inquiry
Constantly
Temporary
Folly
Expedient
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
Epictetus
Please
Pleasures
Bounds
Greatest
Cease
Moderation
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?'
Lewis Grizzard
Attitude
Me
You
Dog
Will
Please
Cat
Call
Dogs
Get
Just
Want
Break
Neck
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
William Blake
Love
Care
Hell
Despair
Please
Ease
Hath
Gives
Another
Builds
Nor
Itself
Any
Heaven
Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in the wrong direction. Always do what you believe in, no matter what people say. Only way to go!
Zedd
Music
You
Yourself
People
Matter
Will
First
Believe
Please
Way
Say
People Say
Someone
Direction
Only
Through
Step
Wrong
Wrong Direction
Make
First Step
Always
Go
Survive
Being
Anything
Being Yourself
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
Benjamin Franklin
Others
Please
Eat
Dress
Thyself
You're never going to please everyone, and if you do, there's something wrong.
Constance Wu
You
Please Everyone
Everyone
Please
Something
Never
Wrong
Going
As long as I am an American citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject, being amenable to the laws of my country for the same.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Myself
Speak
Liberty
Citizen
Long
Country
Whatever
Publish
Please
Runs
Laws
Shall
Write
Veins
Am
Subject
Blood
Amenable
American
Same
Any
American Citizen
Being
Hold
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer
People
Free
Other
Imitate
Please
Each
If you go about trying to please everyone, there's going to be endless struggles.
Sonny Bill Williams
You
Please Everyone
Everyone
Please
About
Struggles
Go
Trying
Endless
Going
If you're not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it's hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that's really not an ingredient for a happy life.
Anne Hathaway
Life
Love
You
Happy
Natural
Yourself
People
Happy Life
Other
Please
Someone
Go
Effortless
Ingredient
Really
Your
Hard
Who
Let Go
Desire
I wish I could say to all those people who consider themselves anarchists or radicals: Please join the nonviolent movement. This is how Gandhi freed India. If Gandhi freed India, we can certainly free the United States from our racism, misogyny, and bigotry.
Dolores Huerta
Racism
People
Free
Wish
Consider
Our
Please
Anarchist
Say
States
Those
India
Join
Could
Freed
How
Nonviolent
Movement
Themselves
Certainly
Gandhi
Who
Radicals
United
United States
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
Edmund Spenser
Life
Death
War
Please
Ease
Does
Greatly
After
Stormy
Toil
Seas
Port
Sleep
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
Epicurus
Understanding
Please
Pleased
Never
Knew
Learn
Did
Rabble
Them
Far
Desired
Barbies, nails, and fashion - I'll take everything in baby pink, please.
Jeffree Star
Fashion
Baby
Please
Everything
Take
Nails
Pink
Barbie
It is impossible to please all the world.
Louis XIV
World
Impossible
Please
All The World
The happy medium - truth in all things - is no longer either known or valued; to gain applause, one must write things so inane that they might be played on barrel-organs, or so unintelligible that no rational being can comprehend them, though on that very account, they are likely to please.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Truth
Happy
Medium
Please
Though
Valued
Must
All Things
Comprehend
Rational
Write
Longer
Likely
Known
Very
Account
Being
Gain
Either
Them
Might
Unintelligible
Applause
Things
Played
I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
Flannery O'Connor
God
Myself
Me
You
I Am
Please
Way
Push
Know
Because
Am
Aside
Help
The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone.
Edwin Louis Cole
God
Man
People
Others
Please
Pleased
Seeks
Anyone
Who
Satisfy
Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Depression
Obligations
People
World
Sometimes
Face
Think
Please
Rightful
Only
Could
Throw
Simply
Come
Come And Go
Alright
Withdraw
Forced
Protest
Because
Said
Real
Go
Were
Left
Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us.
George Haven Putnam
Government
You
Constitution
Will
Unless
Please
Stated
Destroy
Purpose
Points
Allowed
Between
Plainly
Then
Us
Enforce
Your
Dispute
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.
Lysander Spooner
Saying
Rights
Ought
Please
Rule
Say
Minorities
Except
Allow
Equivalent
Them
Right
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