Universal Approval Quotes

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

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.

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

That which touches all should be approved by all. Quod omnes tangit, debet ab omnibus approbari.

The United States is too big and we are too involved with too many people for any president to be able to take actions that will be universally agreed to all day, every day and everywhere in the world.

Please all and you please none.

You're never going to satisfy everybody.

As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to end, and we stand by it. On my Twitter feed, I still get ten to fifteen positive comments for every negative one.

God has not made a world which suits all; how shall a sane man expect to please all?

Somebody told me a long time ago that if everybody loves you, somebody's lying. It is the truest statement you could ever say to somebody.

To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.

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.

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

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.

You wouldn't want to live a life in which you are loved or approved by all people on Earth or even within your own geodetic dome full of your jumpsuited followers.

You can't make everybody happy.

You're never going to please everyone, and if you do, there's something wrong.

You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.

You're no t going to please everybody.

I don't think you can ever please all audiences.

Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

You know, you don't please everybody.

Ideally, I would like everyone in the world to read and love my novels. In fact, I can't believe that everyone in the world doesn't love them. What is there not to love?

People have this delusion that everything has to be for everybody at all times. Every album must be liked by everybody, and every TV show must be liked by everybody, and every movie must be liked by everybody. Everything then becomes bland.