A Quote by Mary Wortley Montagu

You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.

Mary Wortley Montagu

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Nothing Pleased Yourself

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Mary Wortley Montagu
English - Writer
May 26, 1689 - August 21, 1762

We must never forget that this coutry was founded by men who came to these shores to worship God as they pleased. Catholics, Jews, and Protestants, all came here for this great purpose. They did not come here to do as they pleased - but to worship God as they pleased, and that is an important distinction.

Harry S. Truman

He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

God is so boundlessly pleased with Jesus that in him he is altogether well pleased with us.

Charles Spurgeon

Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.

William Hazlitt

My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

Barry Humphries

I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.

Sarah Fielding

Be pleased to look forward, And pleased to look behind, Count today, your 40th, and each birthday With a grateful mind.

John Walter Bratton

I'm very pleased when the smartest people come [to the U.S.] and almost never pleased when the very bottom of the mental barrel comes in.

Charlie Munger

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

Jean de la Bruyere

I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased.

Anne Graham Lotz

Know today that God approves of you. He's pleased with you. He may not always be pleased with your choices or some of the things you do, but when God looks at you, He sees His amazing creation.

Victoria Osteen

Well, the bottom line is that I'm extremely pleased with 'The Stupids.' I'm pleased that it's coming out, and it should look good. It's nice looking, with the colors and stuff. I made it for kids, and I really would like them to see it.

John Landis

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I guess I judge my films by how pleased I am with the work I do, so it's kind of on another level. If they do well at the box office, then that's great. Then I'm really pleased about that too.

Hugo Weaving

A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.