Quotes About Approval

there are some broad strokes that can be fairly applied to most of us: We seek connection with others; We are saddened by loss, and try to avoid it; We dislike rejection; We like recognition and attention; We will do more to avoid pain than we will do to seek pleasure; We dislike ridicule and embarrassment; We care what others think of us; We seek a degree of control over our lives;

wrote to Washington to propose just such a raid: "The enclosed Dispatches from Culper have this moment come to hand. . . . C. writes with great sollicitude for troops to be sent from this side to attack those lying at Setauket. I need not repeat to your Excellency how exceedingly happy I should be to assist in such an Expedition, should it be thot. advisable." To Tallmadge's disappointment, Washington did not approve

The trick is not caring what EVERYBODY thinks of you and just caring about what the RIGHT people think of you.

Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?

Peter wore a grin from ear to ear. "You did great!

Consequently, the most powerful rewards we can receive are the attention, approval, and affection of people we love and respect. Similarly, the most powerful pain we experience is the loss of that attention, approval, and affection- the most obvious example being, of course, the death of a loved one. This is why even our greatest intellectual, athletic, or professional triumphs seem empty if we have no one with whom to share them.

We make our own choices, and then we present the matter to the Lord and get his approving, ratifying seal.

On the contrary, we speak as men approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel.

The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

if he had attended burial services for one of his bitter enemies, said, "No, I didn't patronize the funeral, but I approve of it.

Don't worry, boys, we'll weather this storm of approval and come out as hated as ever - Saul Alinsky to his staff shortly before his death, June 1972.

I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!

I do believe I'm tight,' she said, 'how disgraceful. Please, James, don't be ashamed of me. I did so want to be gay. And I am gay.

One look at Rebecca and Aunt B would have an instant apoplexy. Raphael's eyebrows furrowed. "My mother's approval isn't necessary." Aha. "Does she know that?

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

When you are looking to be validated by others, you are living according to their values, not yours.

You can't please everyone. There's always going to be someone disappointed, so you might as well make yourself happy and Be You.

Some people like you, some people don't. In the end you just have to be yourself.

When you grow up a fatherless son, in many ways you have to raise yourself. No one tells you what looks good on you, how to carry yourself, or provides the approval. Without a father, you grow up never knowing what you didn't have. There is no intimate model of who you want to become, so it's as if you're always guessing.

I think one thing I've learned over the years is just that you're not going to ever please everyone, and the most important person to please is yourself.

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

Obama hasn't lost his standing because of tricks played by the Republicans. He hasn't lost his standing because the media's not fair to him. He hasn't lost his standing or his approval number because the media spent four years attacking him like they did George W. Bush. This is all on him.