Trying to please everyone, in every way, is a race you’ll never win. You can spend all day measuring what people like and don’t like, but don’t let it change who you are. You are unique for a reason. Every single person is not going to vibe with everything, and that's ok.

If you try to please everyone you'll please no one.

you can’t please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren’t making enough progress. Mark was right.

when you want to change things, you can’t please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren’t making enough progress.

This is your life, not someone else's. It is your own feeling of what is important, not what people will say. Sooner or later, you are bound to discover that you cannot please all of the people around you all of the time. Some of t hem will attribute to you motives you never dreamed of. Some of them will misinterpret your words and actions, making them completely alien to you. So you had better learn fairly early that you must not expect to have everyone understand what you say and what you do.

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

One of the things he told me was that my desire to be liked by everyone would hold me back. He said that when you want to change things, you can’t please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren’t making enough progress.

Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

Whatever life you lead you must put your soul in it — to make any sort of success in it; and from the moment you do that it ceases to be romance, I assure you: it becomes grim reality! And you can't always please yourself; you must sometimes please other people. That, I admit, you're very ready to do; but there's another thing that's still more important — you must often displease others. You must always be ready for that — you must never shrink from it. That doesn't suit you at all — you're too fond of admiration, you like to be thought well of. You think we can escape disagreeable duties by taking romantic views — that's your great illusion, my dear. But we can't. You must be prepared on many occasions in life to please no one at all — not even yourself.

You were not born on earth to please anyone; you have to live life to express yourself, not to impress someone. Don't pretend to be someone you're not, and never lose yourself in search of other people's acceptance and approval.

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

Write to Please Yourself.
When You write to Please Others
You end up Pleasing No one.

By trying to please everyone, Nice Guys often end up pleasing no one — including themselves.