Top 69 Quotes About Self Approval
#1. If you think that you are the only one who is right then please consult someone; If you believe that you are right then dont't seek self approval... before that learn to discriminate between a thought and a belief...
Dinesh Kumar
#2. Talking to God, I felt, is always better than talking about God; those pious conversations - there's always a touch of self-approval about them. THERESE OF LISIEUX[1] I
Eugene H. Peterson
#3. Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved.
Rumi
#5. Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.
Louise L. Hay
#6. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.
Mark Twain
#7. It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.
Mark Twain
#8. Self-love, self-respect, self-approval, and self-worth do not equal self-ish.
Mandy Hale
#9. It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.
Mark Twain
#10. Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.
Francis Spufford
#11. If, being cowardly, conceited and slothful, you have never yet done a fellow creature great mischief, that is only because your neighbor's welfare has not yet happened to conflict with your safety, self-approval, or ease. Every vice leads to cruelty."[109]
Heather Choate Davis
#12. What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.
Mark Twain
#13. 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
#14. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability
Karl Lagerfeld
#19. 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
#20. It is unpleasant and disturbing to be rejected. It is deeply satisfying to be accepted.
Stephen Covey
#21. The sooner we accept the inevitable dilemma of not being able to win the approval of everyone we meet, the easier our lives will become.
Richard Carlson
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. When you begin to relinquish your ego, you will no longer feel compelled to prove to people how busy you are in an attempt to validate your sense of worth.
Miya Yamanouchi
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. You will never gain anyone's approval by begging for it. When you stand confident in your own worth, respect follows.
Mandy Hale
#32. 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
#33. As long as you are motivated by the approval of others, you cannot know with confidence whether the decisions you are making in your life are what's right for you ... pg 102
John Kuypers
#34. Your mission: feel good about who you are, what you do, how you think, and how you look
without needing anybody's approval!
Karen Salmansohn
#35. When your own approval means more than the approval of others, that is self-love.
Vironika Tugaleva
#36. Fat people are not here as a foil to boost your own self-esteem. Fat people are not your inspiration poem. Fat people can be competent, beautiful, talented, and proud without your approval.
Lindy West
#37. There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.
George Muller
#38. I felt very awkward and out of place in school. Not popular, not attractive, not special in any way and I was longing for love and approval from someone.
Madonna Ciccone
#39. I would not have discredited every one of their compliments. It was your approval I wanted, your congratulations.
Alanis Morissette
#40. Self-hatred is the best vehicle for making people do as they're told because they are hungry to get approval.
Melinda Gebbie
#41. She had told me that the approval of other people should never be my goal
Jessie Burton
#42. Find yourself first ... like yourself first ... love yourself FIRST ... & friendship & love will naturally find YOU.
Mandy Hale
#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. 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
#45. 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
#46. As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation.
Hans Selye
#47. Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisitions and
approval.
Wayne Dyer
#48. We have nothing to fear from others because approval and acceptance lies within ourselves.
from Chapter 4
Mare Chapman
#49. The months of being disingenuously friendly and the resulting self-hatred taught me that self-confidence cannot be based on the approval of others.
Mark Twight
#50. The defense mechanisms of The Imposter are: sarcasm, name-dropping, self-righteousness, the need to impress others and the need for others' approval.
Manning Brennan
#51. Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.
Harvey MacKay
#52. When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined to give it. But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism - you learn this as you go on.
Will Self
#53. Save your shaming for the girl, Doctor. If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago." He turned and started wading into the swamp. "Time is passing. I, for one, have no intention of remaining here for your betrayer to bring back the soldiers and their guns.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#54. When a child sees herself through the prism of her peer group, the resulting self image can be distorted.
Alexandra Robbins
#55. If you persistently seek validation from others, you will inadvertently invalidate your own self-worth.
Auliq Ice
#56. This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.' It is frankly self-interest, self-preservation.
John Thune
#57. 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
#58. WHAT A TIRING WAY TO LIVE, WHEN YOUR SELF-WORTH IS CONSTANTLY RELYING ON THE AFFIRMATION AND APPROVAL OF OTHERS.
Darlene Zschech
#59. 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
#60. Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
Louise L. Hay
#61. Be an individual, let out the self that hides away at the expense of others approval.
Nikki Rowe
#62. It was a sweet display of self-confidence, as he no longer felt the need to entertain me or to advertise his claim on my attentions. It goes to show that even a man who craves constant approval can attain self-assurance through a little hanky-panky.
Amor Towles
#63. I need not present my actions, my words, myself for somebody else's approval. And basing my decisions on somebody else's approval or making my own approval contingent on somebody else's only postpones what I really want.
Jan Denise
#64. The spiritual leader will choose the hidden path of sacrificial service and approval of the Lord over the flamboyant self-advertising of the world.
J. Oswald Sanders
#65. I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.
Mike Piazza
#66. 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
#67. I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of.
Tullian Tchividjian
#68. A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues.
Abraham Maslow
#69. A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.
Will Self
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