Quotes About Approval

It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in our life.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Old men need applause too.

I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.

To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.

A few yes men may be born, but mostly they are made. Fear is a great breeder of them.

If you please man and never please God, you have nothing; if you please God and man forsakes you, you have everything.

Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.

God's approval is a whole lot easier to get than man's.

A man who does not love praise is not a full man.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

I always wanted everyone to like me. I wanted the city of Pittsburgh to be proud of me. But my first few seasons, I could to count the number of people on my bandwagon on one finger.

Do not let your peace depend on the words of men. Their thinking well or badly of you does not make you different from what you are. Where are true peace and glory? Are they not in Me? He who neither cares to please men nor fears to displease them will enjoy great peace, for all unrest and distraction of the senses arise out of disorderly love and vain fear.

How safe for the preserving of heavenly grace to fly from human approval, and not to long after the things which seem to win admiration abroad, but to follow with all earnestness those things which bring amendment of life and heavenly fervour!

Fame is no sure test of merit.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.

I'm needy, I need approval in everything I do.