#please

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

#better #conviction #deepest #merely #please

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

#our #please #quality #quantity #which

I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time. ↗

— Lesley Garrett

#also #am #festival #first #first time

God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#displeased #god #him #himself #love

With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#fear #fear god #god #him #little

No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad. ↗

— Francis Lockier

#conversation #ever #fine #indifferent #many

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time! ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#christmas time #dime #how #nickel #petitions

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. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#appears #beauty #considered #demanding #far

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

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#follow #give #give me #good #good advice

It's totally different. I usually don't tell people about the Pleased if they know me from the harp. And if they are there to see the Pleased, I usually don't tell them about the harp. I am nervous that these people will expect something similar. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#am #different #expect #harp #i