Quotes About Approval

One has to forget about being sweet, pleasant, and helpful; one has to give oneself permission to publicly dominate the other. One has to manage without the other's approval.

Each child wants to know immediately if he is a worthy person in your eyes. You cannot pretend, because the child knows all the things about himself that worry him. If you act like you like him, but ignore the things he is anxious about, it doesn't count. The child is glad you are nice to him, but deep down he figures if you really knew what he was like, you'd hate him. So your liking him without knowing him just makes him feel guilty.

I particularly approve of and welcome the arrest of millionaire saboteurs in the first and second-class railway carriage.

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

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

Reason requires that I approve The light-bulb which I cannot love

In American cinema, people will take a chance on you, though they'll often remind you that really, they always liked you.

What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

If you worry about what other people think of you, then you will have more confidence in their opinion than you have in your own.

Get the confidence of the public and you will have no difficulty in getting their patronage.

The more validation I need, the less discernment I have.

In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.

He's been dead for so many years, but I'm still trying to impress him. That's what gave me my drive. 'Look at me, Dad, I've succeeded.'

The Bush administration has apparently approved a plan to oust Saddam Hussein. I think that's President Bush's Father's Day gift to his Dad.

So he enjoys a girl who stands up to him," Dad said once we all calmed down. "I like him more already.

About my breasts giving me confidence? I know I have something people will like, people will be jealous of, people will want. To have the confidence that you will be wanted - that's what confidence is. Confidence that you will be approved of, thought well of, desired. If you know that, then you're confindent.

I fight the tentacular grip of ungrace in my own life. Although I may not perpetuate the strictness of my upbringing, I battle daily against pride, judgmentalism, and a feeling that I must somehow earn God's approval.

Christians tend to be Augustinian in theory but Pelagian in practice. They work obsessively to please other people and even God.

Ich kenne keinen sicheren Weg zum Erfolg, nur einen zum sicheren Misserfolg-es jedem recht machen zu wollen.

I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.

Dario, What you do or do not want applies to you, not me. I didn't ask your permission, and I don't seek your approval!' Khalia's voice had taken on a hard edge, and Dario was the first to look away. 'Congratulations,' Glain said 'You're both wildly independent, and now the Archivist has to be wondering why both of you would want to get close to him at the same time. Clearly, neither of you are cut out to be spies.

They just want to be liked. Being liked is their . . . sugar rush.

If you evoked that frown, what you feared was his disapproval, and when you learned that you had disappointed him, you realized that you needed his approval no less than you needed air, water, and food.