Quotes About Approval

#1. 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

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

Bradley Vinson

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

Stephen Ambrose

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

Mandy Hale

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Thomas S. Monson

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Sherman Alexie

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

Mason Cooley

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Ichiro Suzuki

#19. 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

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

Craig Kilborn

#21. 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

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

Ezra Taft Benson

#23. 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

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

James Ellroy

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

Nachman Of Breslov

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

James S.A. Corey

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

Wendell Berry

#32. 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

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

Steve Maraboli

#34. 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

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

Grace Hopper

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

Mike Dooley

#37. Love is an unconditional state of being.

Asa Don Brown

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

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

Jay Leno

#42. 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

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

Will Thomas

#44. 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

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

Johnny Vegas

#46. 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

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

Christopher Paolini

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. Note that acceptance is different from approval. Acceptance is simply saying, It is so.

Margie Warrell

#51. This ceremony of approval was a charade - everything had been decided before we got here - and as with all charades it was wanly ebullient, necessary, and thin.

Lorrie Moore

#52. As a people we do not need anyone else's stamp of approval.

Spike Lee

#53. We want you to stop caring about what anybody else's response is to you. And when you get there, they'll all really, really like you. It's the strangest thing. When you need their approval, you never get it. And when you don't need their approval, you're so tuned in, everybody wants to be with you.

Esther Hicks

#54. This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.

Norm Dicks

#55. Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.

William Shatner

#56. You should resolve not to seek public approval of your private business, when you are not also prepared to accept public disapproval.

Judith Martin

#57. It is only the words of the bill that have presidential approval, where that approval is given. It is not to be supposed that in signing a bill the President endorses the whole Congressional Record.

Robert H. Jackson

#58. Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

Lao-Tzu

#59. It made me feel that I had to work very hard, but I've always felt I had to work very hard to get my own approval.

Zadie Smith

#60. We are all born with an open heart, but at some point as we are growing up, things happen in our lives where we start to shut down, like rejection, not fitting in, wanting approval, judgments, comparisons, and criticism of others.

Agapi Stassinopoulos

#61. Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.

C.S. Lewis

#62. My absolute idols growing up were Michael Jackson and Prince, and so, to get the stamp of approval from someone like Timbaland whom I know that these artists respect, that is a huge feat.

Jussie Smollett

#63. Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.

Anita Baker

#64. A need for approval lies behind all efforts of evangelism. If someone else can be convinced, that will show us that we are on the right path. The attempt to convince someone of anything is a mark of insecurity. (173)

Ravi Ravindra

#65. The gospel declares, because of Christ's finished work for you, you already have all the approval, all the security, all the love, all the worth, and all the rescue you long for and that you desperately look for in a thousand places, all of which are infinitely smaller than Jesus.

Tullian Tchividjian

#66. This is how it works. You bust your ass. Not everything goes your way, and then, after a while, you get to that point. You get to make your own decisions and people look to you for approval on their work.

Nina LaCour

#67. Most women experience issues of power and sexuality, but very few women talk about it. There's the threat of the loss of approval.

Janet Fitch

#68. A year ago my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the Supreme Court had just withdrawn, and my vice president had shot someone. Ah, those were the good ol' days.

George W. Bush

#69. Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#70. This weird thing that musicians have ... it's got something to do with approval, and not feeling good enough, and therefore going out and being great somehow makes your life valid.

Glen Hansard

#71. A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

Barbara Walters

#72. Speaking from experience, because I have three daughters, I think it's always important to give your daughter the confidence that she needs so that she won't look elsewhere for approval and feeling love and acceptance.

David Charvet

#73. As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation.

Hans Selye

#74. The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.

Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

#75. The lesson was clear and I learned it well: blind acquiescence was necessary to gain approval; being yourself only earned condemnation.

Tehmina Durrani

#76. Until we become fully free, we put up a false front, a facade, to others for the purpose of winning the acceptance and approval of others. We behave in accordance with what we think the other one wants rather than by expressing our own real feelings.

Lester Levenson

#77. To love someone, why do you need society's approval and permission?

Ai Yazawa

#78. I nodded in approval, turned around and opened the door, and stepped into the hall. I walked past the receptionist, smiling at her shocked face when she told me in a superficial voice to have a nice day, and I gave her a parting gift - my middle finger.

J.A. Saare

#79. How long an actress lives professionally depends on her stamina, the extent of her masochism, her imagination, and her yearning for recognition or approval.

Lauren Bacall

#80. Steven Brams and Peter Fishburn, one a political scientist and the other an economist, argue that "approval voting" allows voters to express their true preferences without concern for electability.8 Under approval voting, each voter may vote for as many candidates as he wishes.

Avinash K. Dixit

#81. Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisitions and
approval.

Wayne Dyer

#82. Vanity takes no more obnoxious form than the everlasting desire for approval.

Edgar Wallace

#83. A plan will wait until we've camped for the night," I say.
From habit, I turn to look for Hector, seeking his quiet approval. I don't catch myself until it's too late, until I've lost him all over again.

Rae Carson

#84. Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government agency.

Annie Jacobsen

#85. I came here as a son seeking his father's approval, hoping you could recognize what she and I have. But, it appears you're business as usual.

Nicole Gulla

#86. Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.

Franz Schubert

#87. If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.

Alan Dershowitz

#88. Human beings only learn by observing and copying. What does this really mean? It means that your friends will only tell you that your ideas are great once you succeed and never before that. Expecting someone's approval is a waste of time.

Robin Sacredfire

#89. We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!

Dan Burton

#90. He didn't wait for her approval, simply yanked one cup of her bra down and marveled at the berry-colored nipple that sprang into view.

Julie Ann Walker

#91. Alexander Hamilton, of New York, a signer of the Constitution, was a member of the ratifying convention in his state and did more than any other member to wring the approval of the new instrument from delegates practically instructed by their constituents to vote against it.

Charles A. Beard

#92. Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

Sophie B. Hawkins

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

Austin Kleon

#94. We have created crime, just as the propertarians did. We force a man outside the sphere of our approval, and then condemn him for it. We've made laws, laws of conventional behavior, built walls all around ourselves, and we can't see them, because they're part of our thinking.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#95. Don't depend on other people as the source of your happiness or for approval.

Joyce Meyer

#96. In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out of my control, whereas music suddenly felt like this free expression. It was fun.

Susanna Hoffs

#97. When I visit local communities, people often complain that they need the approval of several dozen government departments to get something done or to start a business, and people are quite frustrated about this.

Li Keqiang

#98. And my approval is hanging on by a thread as it is.

Kiera Cass

#99. I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

Agnetha Faltskog

#100. 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