Pleased Quotes

• The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Attention
  • Reason

• I don't want to please everybody. I'd get a little worried if I did something and everybody was pleased with it.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Everybody
  • Worried
  • Pleased

• I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Pleased
  • Desired
  • Contented

• To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • State
  • Limits
  • Pleased

• We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Best
  • Heaven
  • Spirit

• I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Write
  • Pleased
  • Rewrite

• Ten years in this job is a really long time. These are tough assignments. I'm pleased I'm leaving in an amicable, civilized, mutually respectful way. Leslie felt it was time for a change and so did I.

  

  Andrew Heyward
  • Time
  • Long
  • Job

• They are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Attention
  • Secret

• There is nowhere you need go to find God, for God is within you. There is no one you need ask if you are good enough, for He has already established He is exceedingly well pleased.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Good
  • God
  • Establish

• Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!

  

  Plutarch
  • Learn
  • Worse
  • Pleased

• I am pleased with our offensive approach and our competitive at bats. If we play 27 outs we are going to give ourselves an opportunity.

  

  Vance Law
  • Approach
  • Ourselves
  • Offensive

• Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it does. But the danger is, that while a man grows better pleased with himself, he may be growing less pleasing to others. Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has presented.

  

  James Boswell
  • May
  • Man
  • Knowledge

• We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Opinions
  • Pleased
  • Instantly

• I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • My Life
  • Invented
  • Pleased

• We were pleased the tent was put up correctly and the suits went on properly and quickly, ... And we worked well with the Med-Act people. Our one frustration, inside the tent, was that when we were ready (to decontaminate) another person we didn't (always) have a bed outside to transport the previous patient away.

  

  Nancy Anderson
  • Inside
  • Patient
  • Bed

• A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not what pleases him. God's truth, boy, what kind of world would this be if every man did what pleased him alone? Who would plough the fields and reap the harvest, if every man had the right to say, 'I don't want to do that.' In this world there is a place for every man, but every man must know his place.

  

  Wilbur Smith
  • World
  • God
  • Man

• By all implies marry if you get a great wife-husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are going to become a philosopher.

  

  Socrates
  • Wife
  • Husband
  • Philosopher

• From his lips/Not words alone pleased her.

  

  John Milton
  • Words
  • Lips
  • Pleased

• All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.

  

  John Milton
  • Well
  • Pleased

• We are exceptionally pleased about where we are right now.

  

  Doug Parker
  • Right
  • Pleased
  • Exceptionally

• Nothing pleased the Mongols more than a good trick on the field of battle.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Battle
  • Trick
  • Mongols

• I'm very pleased, we started speaking last April and it's been a little while but we got there in the end.

  

  Brad Friedel
  • April
  • Speaking
  • Pleased

• We're exceptionally pleased with where we are. What a difference a year makes.

  

  Doug Parker
  • Difference
  • Pleased
  • Exceptionally

• It pleased the Almighty, to whose great will Holy Will I submit myself with Christian submission.

  

  George Frideric Handel
  • Myself
  • Christian
  • Submit

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