381 quotes about please follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!

I am not bound to please thee with my answers.

William Shakespeare

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

Mahatma Gandhi

A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

Mahatma Gandhi

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Bill Cosby

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

Pythagoras

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.

Ausonius

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

I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly.

Charlotte Bronte

Remember, nothing that's good works by itself, just to please you. You have to make the damn thing work.

Thomas A. Edison

Would you please shut up and sit down!

George W. Bush

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.

Publilius Syrus

We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

Davy Crockett

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

Phaedrus

I am trying to make a very strong attempt to keep my students happy, ... That is very much my pride to please my children.

Ann Hill

Ultimately, no matter how many projects you considered, you can't please everyone.

Henry Fawell

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Eric Hoffer

We get volumes of data, pro and con. So often we get volumes for and volumes against, so we don't do anything. If we can't please 1,000 percent, we do nothing.

Jack Coyle

I wouldn't call it insignificant and it was directly in response to public input. While we can't please everybody, we have to serve everybody.

Stephanie Donovan

I am now going to Jakarta to pressure people there to make donations. Please be patient. Help has come. Please realize that this disaster is too heavy for the local government to carry alone.

Amien Rais

I would ask residents to please check their property for any evidence that might assist us in locating him any abandoned cars, or buildings, especially since he has a medical condition.

Lt. Rahn Farder

You and I are mothers. You are our leader. You know a mother's love. Please help and intervene.

Julian Mcmahon

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Please put KBB in casual clothes, a baseball cap, etc. . . . She looks tired, but too comfy in her suit.

Liz Mangham

Please. Please. I'm just asking you to turn yourself in.

Laura Fleming

The thing the public needs to know is that he can never please everybody. Look at him, he has a foundation, he gives money away, and still people get mad at him.

Sean O'hair

I said, 'please, please not something bad'.

Ralf Schumacher

Neither side wanted that to happen we didn't want any patient we didn't want any anthem member to be disrupted in any way and so we're please that all of that has been avoided.

Tony Felts

We can avoid ignorance with education. Please give importance to this. If you have a kid, please send them to school.

Julio Fernandez

Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars.

Dana Carvey

Basically, I think we have to pull back. We have to be careful not to prescribe just to please [adults]. A multi-faceted approach needs to be taken with behavioral, educational and medical facets all involved.

Diane Meyers

I can assure you we will work with you. If there is something that upsets you, please call.

Bill Bohnenstiehl

Please understand, you are not welcome here.

Caridad Ramos

Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.

Vaughn Monroe

We want her to know we love her, we miss her and we want her to come home. Please call someone.

Alan Curtis Green

They take short cuts to get the job done, thinking that's going to please the employer.

Michael Lopez

The main purpose of these hearings is to get an idea on where the budget missed the boat with the community. No budget will ever please everybody. The City Council tries to address the concerns they hear about most. Sometimes, if the city does not get any strong message from these hearings, no changes are made.

Ceil Pettle

When someday I die, Please tell those whom I know That I ebbed with the Flow.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I just ask that they please, please do something before it's too late.

Shawn Teeters

Our hearts are there. Our homes are there. Please don't move our community.

Jacquie Singleton

He's a likeable guy. I never had a problem with him until this happened. But about a year go, he got these animals and they were crapping all over my driveway and my yard and we were tracking it in the house. I asked him to please keep them on his land, but they kept coming over.

Michael Roberts

We have been trying to call the mayor's office, we have been trying to call the governor's office ... we have tried to use any inside pressure we can. We are turning to you. Please help us.

Norman Mcswain

If you come in for the day, please bring your own food and water and have enough fuel for your vehicle to leave the area.

Dick Nugent

Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

Doris Lessing

(The Burros) stay in the game and don't give up, so I'm please with how we played.

Mark Zimmerman

If your stuff is buried, please uncover it so the crews can pick it up. And don't put large items out at all.

George Dreckmann

Let us together closely lie and kiss, There is no labor, no shame in this: This hath pleased, doth please, and long will please, never, Can this decay, but is beginning ever.

Gaius Petronius

Please, ladies and gentlemen, you stick that up in neon lights. He didn't do anything.

J. Tony Serra

Please look for these notices or contact your utility company. It's important to be part of efforts like this. It says a lot about the community.

Lindsay Mathews

Thank God I'm still here, ... It was kind of scary. I said, 'God, please let me live.'

Paul Wells

And this song is considered a perfect gem, / And as to the meaning, it's what you please.

C. S. Calverley

I mean, picture this: You're in the middle of reading a very important article in The New Yorker, and then you're laughing because you got distracted by a cartoon, and you have to go to the bathroom because of all the laughing ... come on people, please keep the humor at a minimum.

Bob Mankoff

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.

Dave Pelzer

Please don't destroy another life. Please give her a chance to prove she can do something good.

Jeff Kearney

You know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.

Mitch Hedberg

I picked up Australia at 20/1 and then 45/1. Only for consolation reasons should the unthinkable happen, of course. Please don't let me collect this, boys.

Chris Weston

I like to make people happy and please everyone at the same time, but it's not easy. I've got a really big heart, but sometimes it gets in the way and I trip over it!

Aj Mclean

I said can you please get us some help. She's gasping for air. He kept saying license and registration.

Bobbie Baity

We know you're running out to the gas station to fill up and fill up your cans for your generators. Please just remember your neighbor needs this just as well, ... Let's not overdo it. You need to do what you need to do, but there's no panic necessary here.

Toni Jennings

At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?"

Grace Murray Hopper

In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, "Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me."

Grace Murray Hopper

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Marianne Moore

I was really please with the effort. Nobody expected us to take this type of team to overtime on their home floor.

Mike Stallings

Please assure that America will value the life of my father and my sister more than the value of a cable car. Has America forgotten about this tragedy and about our families?

Sindy Renkewitz

I am not a terrorist. Please don't arrest me.

Vivienne Westwood

I think he's grateful he wasn't injured more seriously. We've talked about it, and I think he's just comfortable now, playing the game and not trying to please everyone.

Sandy Alomar

Please don't arrest me, ... I know I shouldn't have been driving, but I got to live.

David Perez

Please let us build our own homes. Let us come back on our own time. Let us spend our insurance money, which we paid for on our own.

Charles Young

Please get involved in community.

Frank Sullivan

There are a few horror stories here and there. The majority of the players have been very down to earth, especially the Aussies. Everything with them is a please and a thank you.

Chris Gaudreau

Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.

Neil Diamond

Please, please be very, very diligent in what you do. Your actions could affect more than just yourself.

Bennie Seth

If our economy depends on options we have a huge problem on our hands. Please don't insult my intelligence that badly.

Alex Vallecillo

Please pass this budget on the grounds that we can't afford to do any less.

Fred Glover

I'd be so happy to be sitting at my desk, eating a Pop-Tart and keying away, ... Nothing would please me more.

Ray Burrows

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

Bishop Desmond Tutu

Power is the ability not to have to please.

Elizabeth Janeway

I'm having a good time,/ Please don't blame me,/ I'm knocking myself out/ Don't try to tame me/ Let me have my fun,/ I've got to have my fling,/ Some folks say I'm blowing my top/ Talk don't mean a thing, . . .

Alberta Hunter

We can talk about there may need to be more regulation but please understand there are some restrictions on the use of that money.

Dale Williams

I had to make a plea for help, I just had to ask somebody to please look for these young men.

Anna Lee

In your letter, you requested that I take 'appropriate action' concerning your suggestions. Please consider this letter my action.

Kevin Nelson

You were a part of our family. I forgive you, please look at me. I know this was an accident.

Lisa Fleming

I would love to be able to talk to you and tell you exactly how I feel about this situation. Nothing would please me more. (Humphrey) played his heart out and played hard enough in the game like this to be rewarded at the end, but obviously, he was not.

Jerry Slocum

You have to live with them and eat meals and make mistakes, ... (The Japanese) want so badly to please us and make a good impression.

Andy Wood

This didn't mean that you wrote fawningly to please the publisher.

Victor Navasky

And please God, protect it.

Marty Richards

He said please open up the register now, I don't want to hurt you. I was more worried about my customer than myself and I wasn't scared. I saw that he had like a little pen knife.

Judy Greer

It's real hard. I guess if anybody out there knows what happened to him, could you please call the police department, the news station, somebody. Let them know what happened. I mean if you know anything, just let them know.

Crystal Jarvis

Pump 4 with the red truck, you're ready to go, Ma'am, please come inside and pay when you're done pumping.

Tim Sutton

We beg you now as a mother, to be the first lady that truly crosses all ethnic barriers and speaks out for the children. Please, please help.

Marisleysis Gonzalez

Please do not try to balance the budget on the backs of our teachers. We need them. They're good, that's why they're here.

Greg Shaw

We need medical supplies, please, ... We're in desperate need of MASH units.

Kevin Davis

You cannot just give it away. You have to have some sort of services rendered. It's not just a pot of money that you can divvy up as you please.

Bret Kingsbury

Please figure all amounts due and notify me of the total balance as soon as possible. I will send a check to you by the end of the week.

Jennifer Tucker

We can't please everyone all of the time, but we think this is one that is easy to resolve. The bottom line is our loyalty is to the community. We don't want to do anything that hurts the community.

Vicki Boynton

John has elected to give himself some more time to recover which means Barry will ride. Please God they get on well in the race.

Paul Nolan

If you can please people's hearts in Africa and Japan, then you're part of the world's family... not a tourist.

Carlos Santana

We play Amador Friday in Sutter Creek at 5 p.m.. Please come out and support all basketball in our county.

Jeff Kern

Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

John Tillotson

Please take it easy and be patient on the roads.

David Fitzgerald

Please leave him, for the sake of God, for the sake of his mom and dad.

Sami Hassoun

Life is with such all beer and skittles; / They are not difficult to please / About their victuals.

C. S. Calverley

I think my husband shot himself. Will you please come and see about him?

Barbara Jones

My first recollection is of a nurse telling somebody would you please get this woman a bed. The name is Carter, C-A-R-T-E-R, yes, just like the president.

Judy Carter

You don't go into it with the idea that you're trying to please anybody. You're trying to move the football and score touchdowns.

Marc Trestman

Streets full of water; please advise.

Robert Benchley

Please consider joining us in this historic movement as we together build a better tomorrow for so many people throughout Minnesota.

Bridget Britz

Only cricket can make a moment like this so confusing and messed up. COMMON SENSE please.

Dave Forrest

We try to please (customers). With what money they have, we can make something for them.

Yolanda Cruz

You cannot please everybody. There will always be somebody who wants everything to stay the same.

John Volk

In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.

Solon

Please, no, por favor, por favor, please no, I implore you. I was doing it for my family! My mother she's sick and my father he lives off the garbage. The king offered me much money and I have a little brother...

Antonio Banderas

'Please see a United representative at the airport to check in.' I'm flying with a presumed terrorist. I guess that's why.

Donna Mitchell

Hurry please. It's nice that he said please.

Joe Hanley

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Jessamyn West

Please, give us an opportunity 'cause we are all hard workers, not criminals.

Miguel Garcia

We always strive to please our guests, but sometimes we do make mistakes.

Andy Ball

[Yesterday, it appeared, at least for now, John] Junior ... Pass the cheese, please.

Victoria Gotti

If you live in a mobile home or in areas that are prone to flooding, please make arrangements to leave town before the storm hits.

Paul Parker

They stopped the line about 10 people behind us. Then they came a little further and I was praying, 'please don't come any farther than that,' and it stopped right here Å  We're the last two in line.

Chris Rowe

You know, you're trying to please too many people. From the patient on the leg, to the family members, to the physician to the insurance carrier. And it's all got to be done tomorrow.

Ken Heide

If you ever hear that there is a show called 'Helen', shoot me, will you please?

Helen Hunt

Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

I know we will never please everyone. But we do have to make some changes. I would like to be a part of that in some small way as a consultant.

Bob Moore

Patience, please, please, please.

Patricia Collins

The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.

Monserrat Caballé

Could I get more banjo in the monitors please?

Craig Miner

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

Viggo Mortensen

It's like rape. It's the woman's decision whether to prosecute. Please don't take that choice away from her.

Jasvinder Sanghera

It has been a great opportunity to learn improvisational skills and to learn how to really please an audience.

Amanda Higgins

We anticipate that this will be the final extension of your suspension so please plan on reporting to work on Tuesday, April 25, 2006.

Patrick Bailey

Please keep it up, don't drop it. This was the scene ... that really made me want to do the movie.

Don Cheadle

Please write down, 'Italy is the favorite.

Karel Bruckner

I'm Bob. I quit running, so please don't vote for me.

Bob Welsh

Please don't tell me this is the best Albany can do.

Daniel Walsh

It's all about pleasing people. We have a lot of people we've got to please.

Cathy Jones

I appeal to the people to please go back to their families immediately. They will feel secure when they see their relatives.

Shivraj Patil

That was just a great play. We knew they were going to bunt the ball, obviously. It was one of those when he starts to dive where I said, 'Please hold on.' Because a lot of times, you see the guy dive, and the ball hits his glove.

Charlie Smythers

We are already struggling. Please, invest in the future. Invest in me.

Jillian Curtis

The INS cannot remove a child from school. Please come to school.

Marla Mckenna

I really need as much help as I can right now. I ask you to please help me find my daughter and bring her home.

Mark Lunsford

It is important that these plans be available for implementation when the security conditions and the capabilities of the Iraqi Security Forces might enable us to do so, ... Please develop a plan that would enable us on fairly short notice to curtail tour lengths for our deployed and deploying soldiers.

Les Brownlee

We put 10 pictures inside each box with a little note asking them to please help us find him, and also thanking them for defending our freedom.

Carolyn Maupin

Please change the government and give us a chance.

Katsuya Okada

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

David Hobson

Please do not delay -- the time to make firm commitments is now. Honor your pledges now.

Barham Salih

Would you please just give in and let the baby go, give her a chance at life. There's a better way out of this.

Fred Johnson

They say that there is evidence. I've asked that, if there is evidence, please bring it forward.

Sonya Jackson

If I was mistaken in some way, please forgive me, but stop with this constant philosophy of forgiving and forgetting.

Mariana Fulger

I ran out the back door and I said I need help, please help me. Then one (officer) went in the back, the other in the front.

Judy Greer

I'm a McDonald's kind of guy, ... I'm easy to please.

Michael Clayton

The white people can go wherever they please and they will not be disturbed by us, and I want you to let them know.

Black Kettle

I'm not normally a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman!

Homer Simpson

Please don't let this be it.

Marc Cohn

No coach is perfect. You can't please everybody.

Rachel Peyton

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure-which is: "Try to please everybody.

Herbert Bayard Swope

I know that someone knows where Laci is -- and I'm pleading with you, please, please let her come home to us. You can send an anonymous letter to the police department telling them where she is or make an anonymous call to the police tip line at 209-342-6166.

Sharon Rocha

Please, put some teeth into this measure. We can't afford to wait.

Betty Gearen

Please don't be angry at us. Don't be worried. We will find a way to care for the injured and the dead.

Willie Revillame

Those people out there that are really up against the wall, please call us. Our folks want to help.

Leigh Morris

Waldrop, can you please go back in the office? I don't know how nice I should be to someone who's yelling at me.

Thomas Hutchinson

Please give them the support that you will be giving to each other.

Alex Aldape

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.

Giacomo Meyerbeer

She wrote to Dr. Green — or Dr. Scott — he was confused — and asked for a phone number so they could talk about the details, ... He never calls and he never sends a phone number, but asks her to please bear with him because things are delicate.

Bruce Mckay

Hey, Dennis, this is Mike! Kick me, please! I'll settle for the price of a set of golf clubs.

Mike Royko

Our food has a global influence. It's a combination of Italian, French, Spanish and Asian, offering a little bit of everything to please all palates.

Adolfo Montes

I can't knock parents for their opinions. But I can't please every parent.

Jenic Tumaneng

Can I quit now? Can I come home? ... I'm trapped now, please rescue me.

Cindy Taylor

They're a private organization, ... They can do what they please. But if I were running things I at least would've given both candidates a chance to speak so they could make an informed decision.

John Dalton

I am somewhat nervous about this meeting, ... But I will just present the truth of my two accusations. Please pray for me.

Paul Chevedden

I'm begging the community, please just help find Grandma. I don't want to blame. Yes, maybe I could have done more. Maybe my family could have done something else.

Gwen Smith

We talked about relationships and how frustrating it is to see girls conform [in] certain ways to please guys.

Julia Baskin

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. I just told my mother I want a bra. Please help me grow God. You know where. I want to be like everyone else.

Judy Blume

His life hadn't even begun, if you know anything, please come forward.

Machelle Nichols

Lots of us bought houses here because we thought all of this would be housing. It's a good neighborhood, it's quiet and now you want to add 90 to 100 apartments to it. If there's anything we can do to buy time, please let us do so.

Gary Fox

There wasn't a day that would go by that we didn't have a serious conversation, but not in this marriage. The only question I have now is 'Honey, will you please eat?' Eva is trying to lose weight.

Hugh Renner

We need an Amber Alert. My Eagles are lost. Somebody please find them.

Tim Kelly

You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you.

Katie Couric

Talent is being able to please people.

Marty Robbins

Look, their [banner] was already up here. We wish they had taken it down. Please give me your flag.

Rulon Gardner

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Abraham Lincoln

If you have any information at all that you think might be helpful, please call 240-777-2600, ... We're also offering a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the arrest and indictment of whoever is responsible for this.

Douglas Duncan

What we're looking for is happiness, and in all our searching who do we forget? Ourselves. Whatever the equation is that you have created, please include yourself in it, because without you, without your heart, without peace in your life, there can never be peace in the world.

Prem Rawat

Please help! ... A catastrophe is currently in the making in the northeastern part of Niger among the nomad community and unless something is done we'll be heading to the worst.

Amadou Doutchi

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Mark Twain

I never had a good game against him because, in catching, Ellie talked too much. I asked him, 'Please give me one at bat, but just don't talk.' He gave me one pitch, (then it was) back to the conversation.

Lee May

If you receive one it is because we really want you to be there. Please come and help congratulate these fantastic young people.

Martin Guildford

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)

Mark Twain

Every time something happened, I would pray to God, 'Please Lord, let my ability be there when I get back,'.

Patrick Valenzuela

You have a tough crowd to please. If you arrive with something that doesn't piss anybody off, then you just keep going with it, because you just need one dissenting mouth and then you're in big trouble.

Richard Mortimer

Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.

Marianne Williamson

Leave well enough alone. Please.

Karl Cohen

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Mark Twain

I don't know what I'm going to do. The only thing I say is that God will please give me somewhere to live because I always lived in that house - and it's awful to say I don't have that now.

Dolores Camacho

All I remember thinking was 'please Barca don't lose your mind'.

Johan Cruyff

My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like ...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.

Barbra Streisand

By reducing the punishment, though the fine has increased, the government is sending the signal: 'Please go ahead and hack'.

Pavan Duggal

It will not be a Disneyland. Oh, God, no, please. We are not talking about plastic statues.

Uri Dagul

You're not going to please everyone regardless of what you do.

Barry Watkins

I'm truly sorry. To make it up to you, Seki-kun will get in shape, so please forgive us.

Takehito Koyasu

I'm not just going to make excuses; I think we have a big problem with SA football at the moment. We have got to fix it as soon as possible. Please you need to take it easy on the boys.

Sibusiso Zuma