Best Approval Quotes

#1. Her hair was pulled back so severely, it would have won approval from the Spanish Inquisition as a method of torture.

Will Thomas

#2. Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

George William Curtis

#3. The best way to get approval is to not need it.

Austin Kleon

#4. My parents were gigantic influences on me. I had a deep hunger to impress my father, who was a professor and an intellectual. I wanted his approval.

Siri Hustvedt

#5. The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.

Mara Liasson

#6. If you wish to remain above the forces here, do not let anyone's approval dictate your actions

Christopher Paolini

#7. It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.

Bahman Ghobadi

#8. I've always been looking for other people's approval.

Johnny Vegas

#9. I believe no-one can insult you without your permission. Shilpa Shetty has paid the price for trying to desperately seek the approval of the West. It is pathetic how we can go on bended knees and lick the boots of Westerners in an effort to be part of their world.

Mahesh Bhatt

#10. The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.

Casey Stengel

#11. Be in a close association with your creator whose is ever ready to direct your plans. Always ensure your convictions are divine and backed by a Godly approval.

Israelmore Ayivor

#12. President Obama's approval ratings are so low now, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the United States.

Jay Leno

#13. He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful.

Sherman Alexie

#14. And of all the objects under my immediate advisement I noted this yacht with the most pleasure and approval. White in colour, in size resembling a young liner, it lent a decided tone to the Chuffnell Regis foreshore.

P.G. Wodehouse

#15. I was tired of acting free when I was not, tired of acting strong when I was in fact weak. I hungered more for freedom than I cared for the approval of those around me. I had already discovered that their approval could never set me free.

Anonymous

#16. Love is an unconditional state of being.

Asa Don Brown

#17. There isn't a soul on the planet who doesn't crave your approval.

Mike Dooley

#18. When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

Henry Miller

#19. A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are semi-mysterious figures whose wisdom seems boundless and whose approval helps us discover who we are.

Steve Almond

#20. Self-hatred is the best vehicle for making people do as they're told because they are hungry to get approval.

Melinda Gebbie

#21. The best thing about being an author is the unspoken approval to dream while awake.

Alex G. Zarate

#22. When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.

John Lancaster Spalding

#23. Genre expectations can kill creativity. If you do something different, it will get hated. The best filmmakers can do everything on the approval list and knock it out of the park. For me, I have a hard time being creative when I have to color in between the lines.

David Ayer

#24. Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.

Brene Brown

#25. When you are your own best friend, you don't endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own.

Mandy Hale

#26. Linh Cinder. The renown. The reputation. The approval rating. New Beijing's best mechanic was ... a teenager? Kai was intrigued. He was amused, but more than that, he was impressed.

Marissa Meyer

#27. It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.

Grace Hopper

#28. Our human condition makes us tend to share only the best of ourselves, because we are always searching for love and approval

Paulo Coelho

#29. Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.

Susan B. Anthony

#30. Simply put, the best teachers are the ones you work your tail off for because in the end you just don't want them to think any less of you. You want and need their approval.

Taylor Mali

#31. He was not much of a nature-worshipper, but he perceived that nature here was certainly at her best and liveliest. He gave her, as it were, full marks and a nod of approval, feeling that she would do very nicely as a background to his satisfying emotions

James Hilton

#32. By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature.

Edith Sitwell

#33. Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Andrew Carnegie

#34. It's possible for someone to act sacrificially and selflessly in the best interests of others while enjoying the fruit: feeling good about having done well and receiving God's approval and reward.

Randy Alcorn

#35. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Thomas S. Monson

#36. I think I let go of the need for approval, ... It certainly feels good when you get it, but I used to be more desperate for it. Once I felt better inside about myself ... I could do everything based on how I want to do things.

Ellen DeGeneres

#37. You can't rely on the approval of others. I used to always look for praise from my directors to reassure myself that I was doing a good job. I don't do that anymore.

Jacob Vargas

#38. I loved the fact that it wasn't my responsibility to change somebody, that it was God's, that my part was just to communicate love and approval.

Donald Miller

#39. The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'

T. J. Miller

#40. Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

Mason Cooley

#41. I was young and frightened and craved respect and its ugly cousin, approval, so I did as I was told.

Sherman Alexie

#42. When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.

Deepak Chopra

#43. Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

Naomi Wolf

#44. People striving for approval from others become phony.

Ichiro Suzuki

#45. All you need to find and accomplish God's purpose in your life is God's permission and approval
not anyone else's. When you get in step with Him, there will be a glow on your face that will make people wonder what you're up to.

Zig Ziglar

#46. Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.

Ted Allen

#47. A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.

Marianne Williamson

#48. That one won't crack, though, Mendel decided with approval; one of your flabby oak trees, Smiley was. Think you could blow him over with one puff, but when it comes to the storm he's the only one left standing at the end of it.

John Le Carre

#49. Find yourself first ... like yourself first ... love yourself FIRST ... & friendship & love will naturally find YOU.

Mandy Hale

#50. In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.

Stephen Ambrose

#51. Easy payments, easy lease, easy approval. Debt is very EASY to get into, but makes it HARD to live victoriously.

Bradley Vinson

#52. Men can be such provoking creatures. One would think the entire world and everything in it were made only for their enjoyment and approval.

Patricia C. Wrede

#53. Jesus didn't call us to merely make a decision for him. He doesn't need our vote of approval. He doesn't want deciders. He wants disciples - people who are devoted to becoming more and more like him in everything, everyday.

Jeff Vanderstelt

#54. Life is too short to waste time waiting for other people's approval on how you live it.

Steve Maraboli

#55. The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power as a value in itself has become the principal indicator of social approval. And the winning of power has become the measure of social merit.

John Ralston Saul

#56. Give your approval to all you cannot understand.

Wendell Berry

#57. Holden shot him in the throat. Somewhere in his brain stem, Detective Miller nodded in approval.

James S.A. Corey

#58. Work at not needing approval from anyone and you will be free to be who you really are.

Nachman Of Breslov

#59. Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.

Caroline Knapp

#60. The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.

D. A. Carson

#61. I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Ariana Grande

#62. You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.

Michael Gira

#63. She's good to common folk. They make her feel authentic. She covets their approval in small doses.

James Ellroy

#64. What do you mean I have to wait for someone's approval? I'm someone. I approve. So I give myself permission to move forward with my full support!

Richelle E. Goodrich

#65. Fear of men's judgment manifests itself in competition for men's approval.

Ezra Taft Benson

#66. For a college basketball player or coach, to reach the Final Four is la-la land. You've achieved, you've got your stamp of approval. My first team to do that was in 1986. Then we did it in '88, '89 and '90.

Mike Krzyzewski

#67. Ironically, the possibility that the president dodged his military service has increased his approval ratings with Democrats by 80 percent.

Craig Kilborn

#68. Stories that pander to your every readerly desire and whim are like overly loyal dogs that live for the simple glow of your approval. I'm a cat person. I like a little aloofness in my pets and my writing.

Alden Bell