Impress Quotes

• The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

  Denis Waitley

  Wisdom, Deep Thought, Trying

  Denis Waitley (1999). “The Psychology of Winning for the 21st Century”, Waitley Institute

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• I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Happy, World

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• Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Respect, Business

  Sir Richard Branson (2011). “Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life and Business”, p.121, Random House

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• I don't try to change myself to impress anybody. I'm just who I am.

  Tim Duncan

  Basketball, Who I Am, Trying

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• Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you

  Roy Croft

  Love, Friendship, Positive

  "Fictional character: Liberace". "Behind the Candelabra", www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• If you can't impress yourself, then no one else really matters.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Matter, Ifs

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.60, Penguin

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• I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad.

  Corazon Aquino

  Trying, Way, Points In Life

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• I don't do anything to impress anyone, quite successfully I can tell you.

  Ehud Barak

  I Can

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• It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.

  Ned Beatty

  Command, Persons, Stature

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• I don't want to impress, I want to inspire.

  Keith Urban

  Inspire, Want

  Twitter post from Oct 12, 2014

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• Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Writing, Thoughtful, Reality

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  Being yourself is all it takes. If you want to impress someone don't be someone else just be yourself.

  Selena Gomez

  Being Yourself, Want, Just Be Yourself

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• What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

  Walter Bagehot

  Men, Mind, Results

  Walter Bagehot (1877). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.336

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• Live like your always trying to impress someone

  Shawn Mendes

  Always Trying, Trying, Like You

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• Always interline a contract before signing it, merely to impress the Party of the First Part. The one who puts his signature to Articles of Agreement drawn up by the other fellow is establishing a dangerous precedent.

  George Ade

  Party, Agreement, Signatures

  George Ade (1960). “The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays”, New York, Putnam [1960]

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• We are forever looking outside ourselves, seeking approval and striving to impress others. But living to please others is a poor substitute for self-love, for no matter how family and friends may adore us, they can never satisfy our visceral need to love and honor ourselves.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Self, Forever, Honor

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• We might impress people with our strengths, but we connect with people through our weaknesses.

  Craig Groeschel

  People, Weakness, Might

  Twitter post from Sep 03, 2013

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• When love is not madness, it is not love.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

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• A tulip doesn't strive to impress anyone.
  It doesn't struggle to be different than a rose.
  It doesn't have to.
  It is different.
  And there's room in the garden for every flower.

  Marianne Williamson

  Struggle, Flower, Garden

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• You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

  Dr. Seuss

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Motivation, Responsibility, Simple

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• It is more important to influence people than to impress them.

  Adrian Rogers

  People, Important, Influence

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• I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Letting Go

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• In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.

  Confucius

  Education, Men, Self

  Confucius (1973). “A book of heaven and the earth: stories from the Confucian analects”, Columbia Univ Pr

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