Quotes About Seeking Approval

#1. An amazing thing happens when you stop seeking approval and validation: You find it. People are naturally drawn like magnets to those who know who they are and cannot be shaken!

Mandy Hale

#2. We need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are rooted in god's love. in such a place there is no need for striving and impatience and dashing about seeking approval.

Sue Monk Kidd

#3. If you're conscientiously seeking approval, you're not being true to yourself.

Tomas Kalnoky

#4. I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.

Lauren Graham

#5. I'm still at the age where I'm constantly seeking approval of people I have respect for.

Eliot Paulina Sumner

#6. 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

#7. With age comes wisdom and confidence, and I don't feel like I'm seeking approval as much as I used to from other people.

Terri Clark

#8. Loving humanity means as much, and as little, as loving raindrops, or loving the Milky Way. You say that you love humanity? Are you sure you aren't treating yourself to easy self-congratulation, seeking approval, making certain you're on the right side?

Julian Barnes

#9. He had a happy canine way of seeking approval without seeming insecure.

Jonathan Franzen

#10. Do what you feel is right without seeking approval.

Debasish Mridha

#11. 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

#12. Know your purpose. Recognize your talents and capitalize on them. If you live your life for the sole purpose of seeking the approval of others, you will live no life at all.

Kel Kade

#13. But seeking the temporary reward of the world's approval can distract us from seeking the eternal reward of the Lord's approval.

Gloria Furman

#14. As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are - what others say is irrelevant.

Nic Sheff

#15. Something remarkable happens when you truly stop seeking other peoples approval, you automatically gain it, and find that others will then seek your approval.

Steven Aitchison

#16. 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

#17. The less approval I get, the more chances I have to develop a relationship with my inner sense of approval. Thankless environments are actually useful for this. They help me discover my own thankfulness and my own self-appreciation.

Vironika Tugaleva

#18. When you live your life seeking the opinion and approval of others, you become a slave in your mind and soul to others. This is the worst form of slavery.

Bien Sufficient

#19. You will never gain anyone's approval by begging for it. When you stand confident in your own worth, respect follows.

Mandy Hale

#20. I think politicians and comedians have a lot in common. One is a group of approval-seeking narcissists who will say and do anything to be liked ... and comedians are always talking about politics.

Aasif Mandvi

#21. If you find yourself craving approval, you are low on self-love. Stop grasping for a few scraps wherever you can. Go home and make yourself a feast. Love yourself deeply today.

Vironika Tugaleva

#22. When you can give up approval and appreciation seeking behaviors, then you will become true to yourself and the universe.

Debasish Mridha

#23. A friendship where you're always trying to be considerate of the other person, always worrying about what they think, always responding to every single text, always seeking their approval and then finally connecting with them, isn't friendship at all.

Wataru Watari

#24. Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.

Byron Katie

#25. We tend to live down to other people's expectations, especially the people closest to us. It is more difficult to obtain approval of people who hold us in high regard than to accept the lower standards that other people hold of us.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#26. 10For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying s to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a t servant [2] of Christ.

Anonymous

#27. The more you try, so desperately, to prove a point to get someone's approval, the more fleeting that approval might be, causing a chain of depreciation of self-esteem. Sometimes, all you need do is truly love yourself and get only the approval and acceptance of the inner self.

Ufuoma Apoki

#28. But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.

Stephan Jenkins

#29. If I were surrounded by people who always approved of me, I wouldn't need such a deep relationship with my own sense of right and wrong. And you know what that means? It means that other people's approval is actually a hindrance, more than a helper, when it comes to self-discovery.

Vironika Tugaleva

#30. You cannot water your own plant if you are waiting on other people's approval to do so. Stop living your one and only life waiting for validation, start seeking your own inner voice to guide you.

Keysha Jade

#31. We all have weakness and strength. I have to fight against the weakness in my personality. Everyone of should fight against the weakness of the soul. Seek to build on your strengths.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#32. How often do you cave in to the pressures of the crowd, seeking the approval of others instead of the approval of God? We all like to be liked - but that can be a very dangerous thing. Make it your goal to live for Christ and be faithful to Him, regardless of what the crowd demands.

Billy Graham

#33. A Speechmaker's Prayer:
"Let each word of mine be tender and sweet,
Just in case someone might make me eat it.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#34. 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

#35. 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