Examples of 'trying to please others' in a sentence

Meaning of "trying to please others"

trying to please others: Making an effort to make others happy or satisfied. This phrase is often used to describe someone who prioritizes the needs or desires of others over their own, sometimes to their own detriment

How to use "trying to please others" in a sentence

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Trying to please others is a huge waste of time.
We live our lives trying to please others.
He is trying to please others or is deceiving himself.
I no longer live my life trying to please others.
Trying to please others can be exhausting.
It can be very stressful trying to please others.
Trying to please others.
Do not live your life trying to please others.
Trying to please others instead of trying to please God.
I am vowing to stop trying to please others at my own expense.
I should have done it my way instead of trying to please others.
I have spent my life trying to please others and to be accepted.
I lived the first half century of my life trying to please others.
Why live your life trying to please others when you should live to please yourself.
No one ever achieved anything by trying to please others.

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Trying to please others before pleasing God is inverting the first and second great commandments.
I give up on trying to please others.
As if they had decided to like themselves before trying to please others.
I am tired of trying to please others.
Richard suggests that she should live her own life instead of trying to please others.
No more trying to please others at the expense of who you are….
We are constantly trying to please others.
Trying to please others to gain their approval . ”.
You have spent most of your life trying to please others.
Wanting to be liked ; trying to please others to get their attention and praise.
I am not going to go through MY life trying to please others.
Trying to please others will not make us well-liked -- just overworked and under-appreciated.
Yet God never said that you would receive praise for trying to please others.
If you weren't trying to please others.
In fact, we spend most of our lives trying to please others.
Trying to fit in . Trying to please others.
This is why I say, you can not spend your life trying to please others.
Instead, we spend much of our time trying to please others.

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