Quotes About Self-approval

We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

The pleasure of pride is like the pleasure of scratching. If there is an itch one does want to scratch; but it is much nicer to have neither the itch nor the scratch. As long as we have the itch of self-regard we shall want the pleasure of self-approval; but the happiest moments are those when we forget our precious selves and have neither but have everything else (God, our fellow humans, animals, the garden and the sky) instead.

Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.

Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

I've never recorded anything I didn't like.

The public hisses at me, but I applaud myself in my own house and simultaneously contemplate the money in my chest.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

If you disaprove, I can only shrug my shoulders. It's what I have.

We judge others harshly in order to judge ourselves with approval.

Credit you give yourself is not worth having.

why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.

I am what I am because early in life I decided that I would please at least myself in all things.

I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.

And it is nice to know that it matters not what others are choosing, or what others are even thinking about what I am choosing. What is important is that I am pleased with me, and as I see myself, I certainly am.

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

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

you have to do that kind of work for yourself. If you do it for other people, you end up wanting them to acknowledge it and to be grateful and to give you credit. If you do it for yourself, you don't expect other people to react in a particular way.

The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby

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.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.

We must recreate an attractive and caring attitude in our homes and in our worlds. If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.

Decide what makes you happy and damn what anyone else thinks or says