Quotes About Approval

From its inception, FISA has been the ultimate rubber stamp. In its first twenty-four years, from 1978 to 2002, the court rejected a total of zero government applications while approving many thousands. In the subsequent decade, through 2012, the court has rejected just eleven government applications.

Needing approval is a female cultural disease, and often a sign of doing the wrong thing.

Perhaps that's the first Survival Lesson we need to remember if we are to keep going: serious opposition is a measure of success. Women have been trained to measure our effectiveness in love and approval, not in conflict and resistance.

Needing approval is a female cultural disease

When you're dependent, it's very hard not to be worried about the approval of whoever and whatever you're dependent on. For

EGO wants to be confirmed. It needs "company" to expand. The more you know your SELF, the less approval from others you need.

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.

...the deepest principle of Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated...

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

You like him? I nodded. I like him. Hell, Mogwai likes him. You could pick a worse judge of character than your cat, she said in a pragmatic voice.

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!

And unless you show that you are as good at everything as they are, you find that you spend virtually all your time running behind them screaming like a banshee, 'Me too, me too!

Human affairs are not so happily arranged that the best things please the most men. It is the proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.

You are entitled to say NO to wearing a mask in order to get people to like you.

She's good to common folk. They make her feel authentic. She covets their approval in small doses.

I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.

I feel a little uncomfortable about endorsements.

I came up with the name 'The Undefeated' the day Maya Angelou died. It took eight months to get the name approved.

When you do deals with France involved, you want to make sure that the government endorses your deal, understands the strategic rationale.

Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage.

It is better to be accepted by the bright few than by the dull masses.

Shame without repentance doesn't lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.

Remove those 'I want you to like me' stickers from your forehead and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good -on your mirror!

Your approval before God is woven into the life and sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, not what other men and women think about you.