Sentence examples for life to please from inspiring English sources

"I lived my life to please him," Ms. Guerra said.

Sharon Rooney: "I think the best thing that I've learned is that: 'if people don't like you for who you are, they can f**k off.' "I know it's a bad word, but it's true and you shouldn't live your life to please other people, you should live your life for you, and that's definitely what I'm going to take away from the show".

It's not her turn anymore, and I've heard enough from you dear readers to understand that living my life to please other people isn't going to work.

Success happens when you quit living your life to please everyone around you.

Though his son has tried all his life to please his widower father, Paul doesn't think Martin has what it takes to take over the family business.

Simply explain to them that you don't have enough time, and that you can't live life to please others.

Last week I went to see Drew Barrymore's directorial debut, "Ellen Page) who has pretty much resigned her 17-year-old life to pleasing her mom through entering beauty pageants.

More contentiously, Daniele Luchetti's La nostra vita (Our Life) aimed to please with a shallow treatment of working-class lives.

He married his stepsister Ellen, and for the rest of his life sought to please Thomas Ewing, a leading barrister of the day.

"I spent about 10 years of my life trying to please jocks – now they like me!" This has opened up potential avenues of subversion.

My street name would be Cookie and I would live a long, hard life having to please my johns, but since they would let me use their blow dryers to feather my hair, it wouldn't be all that bad.