Quotes About Self-approval

You should seek approval from yourself.

Je crois que ma tâche première est d'approuver tout ce qu'un enfant désapprouve en lui-même - c'est-à-dire de briser la conscience qui lui est imposée par l'éducation et qui n'aboutit qu'à la haine de son moi. (p. 371)

Nada es tan sagrado como la integridad de tu propia mente. Absuélvete a ti mismo, y tendrás la aprobación del mundo.

Be in favor of the self.

I hate when people say I Photoshop myself.

You either like or don't like people warts and all. You've got to look yourself in the mirror. I don't like all the aspects of what I do and am, or things I've done, but you've got to live with it.

I don't think it's good to focus on being celebrated but to celebrate yourself.

If Tony hadn't been fearful, hadn't counted on the approval of others for his own self-approval . . . and so on, through a succession of hypotheticals leading to the final one: so, for instance, if Tony hadn't been Tony.

Life ain't about how fast you run or how high you climb, It's all about how good you bounce. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.

Don't try to please others at the expense of your values and your integrity. At the end of the day, you want to like yourself when you look in a mirror.

Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

The flower replied: you fool! Do you imagine I blossom in order to be seen? I blossom for my own sake because it pleases me, not for the sake of others. My joy consists in my being and my blossoming.

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

When others fail to celebrate you, celebrate your own achievements.

Sometimes in life, it has to be enough to be proud of yourself, even if no one else notices.

by some obscure process of logic, she felt that her momentary burst of generosity had justified all previous extravagances, and excused any in which she might subsequently indulge.

A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we're all less than perfect.

The buzzard has nothing to fault himself with. Scruples are alien to the black panther. Piranhas do not doubt the rightness of their actions. The rattlesnake approves of himself without reservations. The self-critical jackal does not exist. The locust, alligator, trichina, horsefly live as they live and are glad of it. The killer whale's heart weighs one hundred kilos but in other respects it is light. There is nothing more animal-like than a clear conscience on the third planet of the Sun.

I have never asked the crowd for their approval, and I will never start.

I do the best I can to approve and disapprove only of my own behavior. I don't always succeed, but I try. I'm trying now and I'm going to keep at it.

Become one of your own die-hard fans, look at yourself from the outside, where all your self doubts can't crawl all over you, and behold what shines through.