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Quotes About Approval

I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.
~ Blaise Pascal
I hope to be judged as good a man as my father. Before I hear those words "well done" from my Heavenly Father, I hope to first hear them from my mortal father.
~ Boyd K. Packer
At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax.
~ Frank Pittman
He's my man, he was great
~ George W. Bush
I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.
~ George Washington
Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.
~ Lord Chesterfield
When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Michael Steele! You be da man! You be da man!
~ Michele Bachmann
But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that ... I was worthy of being number one to a man.
~ Monica Lewinsky
There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.
~ Ouida
Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience--more desirous of security than of safety.
~ Richard Whately
When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.
~ H. L. Mencken
Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.
~ Jane Austen
Mike Adams, you are simply the sexiest man alive. You have my vote in .
~ Jessica Alba
Prefer not the esteem of men to the approbation of God.
~ John Jortin
Angels contented with their face in heaven, Seek not the praise of men.
~ John Milton
But my friends are happy for me. The people who know me are happy. My mom is happy. My family is happy.
~ Tom Cruise
I never let anyone pluck, including myself, unless my mom approves. She guards my eyebrows. She's like the eyebrow police!
~ Isabelle Fuhrman
You don't have to be good at something to be liked.
~ Stephen Richards
I wanted to have money I wanted to be special I wanted people to like me I wanted to be famous.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
When you please your mother by doing something, it gives you confidence that you can please other people.
~ Gene Wilder
I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.
~ James Cagney
My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
~ Mick Jagger
If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray