Quotes About Approval

If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

We are never free until we have no need to impress other people.

If you always care what people think about you, you will always be their prisoner.

Worst thing in the world; being hated for someone you are; rather than being loved for someone your not.

He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up.

Beauty relies on you, don't wait for someone else to approve.

You should not change yourself for others. Those who like you would love to see you the way you are.

Most people who seek advice, are simply looking for affirmation. And they will seek as much 'advice' as it takes to get the affirmation they seek.

We ask advice, but we mean approbation.

Material things aside, we need no advice but approval.

If they don't love you for YOU, nothing you do or say will make them love you. So, stop trying to prove that you're good enough for them.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

You always look as though you think people aren't going to like you--that's your trouble.

Like all good students, I yearned for nothing but approval, even from fools.

I triumph and rejoice that my action should have obtained your approval; nor am I disturbed when I hear it said that those whom I have sent off alive and free will again bear arms against me; for there is nothing which I so much covet as that I should be like myself, and they like themselves.

The man who seeks your advice too often is probably looking for praise rather than information.

You are good enough. You don't need to prove anything to anyone - just to yourself.

Why, do you think that you can undermine God's sovereignty and get away with it? He knows! Do you think that you can play down the doctrines of the blood atonement and an exclusive salvation, and not be held accountable? He knows! What? Do you really think that you can approve of the sodomite and not suffer judgment?

2 Timothy 2:15 says, "Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, handling accurately the word of truth

Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them" (Romans 1:32).

In any case, whether people approve or do not approve of what I do and how I do it, I for my part know no other way than to wrestle so long with nature that she tells me her secret.

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.