Quotes About Approval

All I wanted to do was please my adopted family.

What matters most is not what I think I am or am not. What matters is what my Father sees in me and what He says about me.

My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.

I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world.

He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.

At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way [my father] could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.

I think [Bush] would like to hand his father Saddam Hussein's head and win his approval for what happened after the Gulf War.

I've never been desperate to please my father.

Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel.

Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.

Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.

If you go through life worried about what people think about you, then you're not really living. You're just existing.

The easiest way to end up unhappy, is trying to impress and please everybody.

Don't worry about what other people think about you,worry about what God thinks!

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming pe.

How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.

Don't lose your real self in the search for acceptance by others.

In short, my aunt stipulated, at one and the same time, that whoever came to see her must approve of her way of life, commiserate with her in her sufferings, and assure her of an ultimate recovery

I was not yet old enough, I was still too sensitive to have outgrown the desire to find favour in the sight of other people and to possess their hearts.

that their merit resides in the impression that they make on their readers. It is a synthetic Venus, of which we have but one truncated limb if we confine ourselves to the thought of the author, for it is realised in its completeness only in the minds of his readers. In them it finds its fulfilment. And as a crowd, even a select crowd, is not an artist, this final seal of approval which it sets upon the article must always retain a certain element of vulgarity.

Wenn man etwas tut, um anderen zu gefallen, kann es nicht gelingen, aber bei den Dingen, die man tut, um sich selbst zu zufriedenzustellen, besteht immer die Aussicht, dass sie auch das Interesse von anderen wecken.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

The victorious cause pleased the gods, but the vanquished pleased Cato.