Top 100 Quotes About Approval
#1. Like all good students, I yearned for nothing but approval, even from fools.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#2. Be a person of value; never seek approval to be yourself.
Debasish Mridha
#3. And is that why we do what we do? For public approval, for fame? Do we help people because they will be appropriately grateful--or merely because they need help?
Kurt Busiek
#4. A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.
Helen Rowland
#5. Even if every program were educational and every advertisement bore the seal of approval of the American Dental Association, we would still have a critical problem. It's not just the programs but the act of watching television hour after hour after hour that's destructive.
Ellen Goodman
#6. If a leader comes to office in a seemingly fair election and tolerates dissent, he or she qualifies for our seal of approval.
Stephen Kinzer
#7. I'm still at the age where I'm constantly seeking approval of people I have respect for.
Eliot Paulina Sumner
#8. Whenever you are too worried about someone else's approval, that person loses respect for you.
Sherry Argov
#9. People who judge you are often themselves craving approval.
Emma J. Bell
#10. If you live your life for the sole purpose of seeking the approval of others, you will live no life at all. You
Kel Kade
#11. If you evoked that frown, what you feared was his disapproval, and when you learned that you had disappointed him, you realized that you needed his approval no less than you needed air, water, and food.
Dean Koontz
#12. Everyone is a social animal and everyone is socially relevant..
Everyone is responsible to contribute in whatever way they can..
The 'Contribution' needs no one's approval..It just needs to be done
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#13. Author Neale Donald Walsch says, So long as you're still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
#14. Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.
Phil Donahue
#15. I triumph and rejoice that my action should have obtained your approval; nor am I disturbed when I hear it said that those whom I have sent off alive and free will again bear arms against me; for there is nothing which I so much covet as that I should be like myself, and they like themselves.
Vikram Seth
#16. As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.
Ambrose
#17. Who knows if John McCain could have won that presidential campaign [2008] in any circumstances when George W. Bush the outgoing Republican president had a 22 percent approval rating.
Rachel Maddow
#18. Next to the disapproval of our friends, the approval of our enemies is most to be dreaded.
Octave Feuillet
#19. Why didn't you talk about whether women are funny or not?
I just felt that by commenting on that in any real way, it would be tacit approval of it as a legitimate debate, which it isn't.
Mindy Kaling
#20. Our thoughts and actions must in no way be determined by the approval or disapproval of our time, but by the binding obligation to a truth which we have recognized.
Adolf Hitler
#21. In the realm of love and sex, it's girls who are in the position of working hard to adapt themselves to the needs and fantasies of the mercurial males whose approval and attention they seek.
Meenakshi Gigi Durham
#22. The biggest hindrance in life is to live for other people and crave for their approval. This kind of behaviour diminishes your God given purpose and it leads you to live a barren life. Free yourself from the prison of pretence and live a purposeful lifestyle.
Euginia Herlihy
#23. Publishing the charter is a major milestone, because it is the first official document of your approval project.
Kim Heldman
#24. Paul was far more concerned with obeying his divine calling than with gaining man's approval. Only one thing mattered - pleasing the Master.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#25. I built a studio in my house so I can be with my kids. I go out to my approval meetings [for my collection] while they nap, but at least I can sing [at home] while they sleep at night.
Jessica Simpson
#26. 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
#27. We really don't need the United Nations approval to act. When it comes to our security, we do not need anyones permission.
George W. Bush
#28. You don't need anyone else's approval or permission to enjoy the magic of writing.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#29. I had to learn that I knew nothing. I also had to learn that it was okay to think for myself and that my happiness, my true salvation, was not dependent on the approval of others.
Gregory Michael Brewer
Arin Murphy-Hiscock
#30. Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.
Nancy Gibbs
#31. I must not seek approval from absolutely everyone, or anyone really.
Lauren Graham
#32. The visits Prime Minister Koizumi made to the Yasukuni Shrine, I believe, had nothing to do with approval ratings. He paid respects at the Yasukuni Shrine to pay respects to the people of Japan who fought and lost their lives for the country and to pray for the peace of their souls.
Shinzo Abe
#33. Parents want their kids' approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents' approval.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#34. Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.
Kit Reed
#35. Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
Gloria Steinem
#36. If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.
Ali MacGraw
#37. Love doesn't need consent or someone's approval. It is as inevitable as life and death.
Samreen Ahsan
#38. What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?
R.C. Sproul
#39. I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time - without UN approval and much broader support from the international community.
Kofi Annan
#40. Green tea?"
"You can't be serious."
The old woman nodded her approval. "I wasn't."
"Because you know when a cow chews grass? And he or she chews and chews and chews? Well, green tea tastes like French-kissing that cow after it's done chewing all that grass.
David Levithan
#41. Having God's unconditional love does not mean you have God's unconditional approval.
Miles McPherson
#42. Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
George Takei
#43. For one scant day he had loved himself, felt himself to be unified and whole, not split into hostile parts; he had loved himself and the world and God in himself, and everywhere he went he had met nothing but love, approval, and joy.
Hermann Hesse
#44. 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
#45. We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol.
John Ortberg
#46. I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
Johannes Kepler
#47. It's about good copy and ensuring that cases can be made into top-notch documentaries on the telly. Public approval is the all-important currency these days, and police budgets ebb and flow on the back of circulation and viewing figures.
Jasper Fforde
#48. God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
Bill Hybels
#49. When you find a truth that surpasses your desire to fit trends and meet approval, you can be certain it's worth fighting to spread.
Caroline George
#50. Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status.
Mason Cooley
#51. Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves
their convictions and their aspirations
every day. There is nothing noble about it. It takes far more courage to fight for your values than to relinquish them.
Nathaniel Branden
#52. Don't beg for approval or expect respect. Respect comes from within and your choice to allow people to take it from you, by how you teach them to treat you.
Shannon L. Alder
#53. Though I guess if you love someone, the thought of losing their approval is probably twice as terrifying.
Riley Redgate
#54. Raised some taxes based on court orders and voter approval.
Mike Huckabee
#56. I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society."
"Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.
Emmuska Orczy
#57. It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in our life.
A.B. Simpson
#58. I try not to write songs in which men glamorize their own need for approval from women. That's kinda a bogus way to go out. But I try to do this quietly. I'm not about to go around telling people how they should or shouldn't think. My feminism is for me.
John Darnielle
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. We are all entitled to our little harmless habits, but we are not entitled to demand approval for them.
Judith Martin
#62. Your opponent will often be blind to your design, being consumed with his own. Do not subconsciously seek accolades of your ingenuity and thus call attention - be sated by your own approval. Be confident you will win.
Shannon Kirk
#63. Virtual Piggy was created to provide a safe way for kids to shop online with parental approval, in recognition of growing digital world kids live in.
Jo Webber
#64. When you're dependent, it's very hard not to be worried about the approval of whoever and whatever you're dependent on. For
Gloria Steinem
#65. We will never be the women God wants us to be if our hearts are continually chasing after human approval.
Kylie Bisutti
#66. Doing Made In Heaven was like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, but I wouldn't have put my seal of approval on it if I hadn't thought it was up to standard.
Brian May
#67. When we speak, dress, and think like others, we live with the goal of achieving the approval they have
Sunday Adelaja
#68. If you shut yourself up disdainfully in your ivory tower and insist that you have your own conscience and are satisfied with its approval, it is because you know that everybody is criticizing you, condemning you, or laughing at you.
Luigi Pirandello
#69. You will know it is love not when you think about them all the time or want to be with them, but when you worry about them and you want their approval and happiness.
Shannon L. Alder
#70. Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.
Apollonius Of Tyana
#71. I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.
William Shatner
#72. The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
Orison Swett Marden
#73. First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity.
Thomas E. Mann
#74. I mean, it's pretty disillusioning for all of us right now, and we feel pretty helpless when Congress, their approval rating is thirteen percent, and across the board, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, you sort of want to walk in and fire everybody.
Christopher Cross
#75. Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for it. I don't need the approval of an audience, or applause.
Patti Smith
#76. Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.
Gloria Steinem
#77. As we begin to see where we have been absent from life, increasing possibilities audition for our approval.
Stephen Levine
#78. It took many years to accept that fantasy is the fuel for my storytelling passion, and without that, I really am a hack, writing for money or approval rather than for the pure delight of storytelling.
Kelley Armstrong
#80. His view of the sky spun first left then right, as though the world were trying on strange new angles for his approval.
Scott Lynch
#81. My father was my god. His approval was so valuable to me.
Wilbur Smith
#82. Just about everything a Nice Guy does is consciously or unconsciously calculated to gain someone's approval or to avoid disapproval.
Robert A. Glover
#83. a man cannot fulfill his purpose if he is living for applause, approval, and affirmation in this world. It simply will not come - not enough, certainly, to answer the needs of his soul.
Stephen Mansfield
#84. A beautiful life is about spending your time passionately, being happy with who you are inside, and not worrying about everyone's petty judgments. If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for everyone's approval. You don't need anyone's approval to be happy or to follow your heart.
Shivesh Thakur
#85. Because I was from the Midwest and untrained, I was completely open and ready to try anything. Many of my classmates were cynical and jaded; some already had conservatory training, and they were there simply to get that Yale stamp of approval, which they saw as a career stepping-stone.
Laila Robins
#86. Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.
Garrison Keillor
#87. The L.A. Times reports that al Qaeda terrorists have been traced to Iran, and President Bush is talking tough. In fact he said he will attack the minute he has evidence his approval rating is under 45 percent.
Jay Leno
#88. The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.
Deepak Chopra
#89. I think I started out because I was desperate for approval and acceptance and praise. Some actors never break away from that. They're after that validation their whole life.
Judge Reinhold
#90. We live with the key purpose of receiving the approval of those around us because we don't know who we are in reality
Sunday Adelaja
#91. Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the begged or gratuitous approval of others.
Robert Genn
#92. I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.
Rachel Caine
#93. I became an overachiever to get approval from the world ...
Madonna Ciccone
#94. When your power comes from others, on approval, you are their slave. Never sacrifice yourselves - never! Whoever urges you to self-sacrifice is worse than a common murderer, who at least cuts your throat himself, without persuading YOU to do it.
Tobias Wolff
#95. Have the self-confidence to say no when it is necessary and the strength to stand alone. Give yourself the approval to love and respect everything that you are and will become.
Jackie Olson
#96. Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by playing up the 'hacker threat' so that they can win approval by cracking down on it.
Charles Platt
#97. Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.
David Luiz
#98. Be excellent in your own terms. Do not look for approval from a single soul on this planet. Respect yourself and in time the whole world will respect you.
Abhijit Naskar
#99. I see a huge paradox in me - the intense need to be loved and the search for approval juxtaposed with the need to nurture other people, to be the mother I never had.
Madonna Ciccone
#100. If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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