A Quote by Joe Thornton

You can't please everybody. If you please 70 percent of the people, that's all you can hope for.

Joe Thornton

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Everybody Hope People Percent Please

Quote Author

Joe Thornton
Canadian - Hockey Player
Born: July 2, 1979

When I was a teenager, I was trying to please people. I kept changing who I was to please the people I was with. And so once I just decided I wasn't going to do that anymore. I was going to live my life to please God. And so from that day to this, that's been my aim. Some people don't understand, but you can't please everybody anyway.

Anne Graham Lotz

When I was first writing, my little prayers were, 'Please, please, please. Let something be published someday.' Then it went to, 'Please, please, please. Let somebody read this.'

Judy Blume

The politicians, they try to please everybody and when you want to please everybody, you won't please everybody. That's not my way of doing politics.

Maxime Bernier

I can't please everybody and I don't try to. If I can please myself that's enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.

Todd Solondz

Please, please, please, please, please...,", squeezing his eyes shut because it somehow made the words more pure.

Mitch Albom

Everybody that listens to something hears it differently from their own perspective. And you can't please everyone. Don't even try. Please yourself first and then try to please those people around you that you feel know what you're doing.

Buddy DeFranco

Everybody has their own opinions and you cannot please everybody. I'm never going to try to do that - to please everybody - because there is always somebody who will say they don't like it.

Demian Maia

If you are lonely, please know you can find comfort. If you are discouraged, please know you can find hope. If you are poor in spirit, please know you can be strengthened. If you feel you are broken, please know you can be mended.

Jeffrey R. Holland

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

Ernest Hemingway

In TV, in general, the more you try and please everybody, the less people you please.

Greg Berlanti

You cannot please everyone, and I think that what's important, ultimately, is to make sure you please yourself. If you start trying to please other people, you'll just go around in circles.

Steven Wilson

America has a broken spirit, that the people that are saying, "Please help me, please let me keep my home, please let me keep my car, please recognize me as a vital human being," they are falling on deaf ears.

Suze Orman

People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.