Quotes About Approval

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

In the end, it really doesn't matter what others think of me. All for Jesus, my Audience of One.

mythologist Joseph Campbell suggested, "'What will they think of me?' must be put aside for bliss.

It's not about you. It's about what other people think of you.

Why, thank you for your permission, Tremaine." Tremaine made a derisive noise, unimpressed. "Somebody's got to give you permission, if you won't give it to yourself.

The ears of our generation have been made so delicate by the senseless multitude of flatterers that, as soon as we perceive that anything of ours is not approved of, we cry out that we are being bitterly assailed; and when we can repel the truth by no other pretence, we escape by attributing bitterness, impatience, intemperance, to our adversaries.

God's approval isn't based on what a person does. Rather, he accepts what a person does because he already approves of the person. The person hasn't earned God's approval through the good that he or she does. Because

The best commendation of any work is to know that one has done the work that God has given him well and that God is pleased with his effort.

prophets? The ears of our generation have been made so delicate by the senseless multitude of flatterers that, as soon as we perceive that anything of ours is not approved of, we cry out that we are being bitterly assailed; and when we can repel the truth by no other pretence, we escape by attributing bitterness, impatience, intemperance, to our adversaries.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

Heresy is just philosophy that the establishment doesn't approve of

There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.

There are two things people want more than sex & money... recognition and praise.

Often we lose our identity trying to please or placate others.

You might need to stop worrying about other people's approval

The mistake our politicians so often make with these industry leaders is in thinking they are interested in, or respectful of, the power of government. All they want is to keep stealing. If you can offer them the government's seal of approval on that, they'll take it. But if you can't, well, they'll take that too.

Under U.S. law, the president nominated generals for promotion, and the Senate approved them. It had traditionally been done that way, in accordance with the doctrine of civilian control of the military.

Buckley warned, "Those conservatives who take sly pleasure from Wallace's techniques should reflect that that kind of thing is do-able against anybody at all; do-able for instance by the Folsomite Wallace of yesteryear, who roared his approval of his candidate's attack on the 'Wall Street Gotrocks,' 'the damned decency crowd,' and 'them Hoover Republicans

Be not desirous to know what people say; if they speak well of thee, it will feed thy pride, if ill, it will stir up thy passion. See that thou approve thyself to God and thine own conscience, and then heed not what men say of thee; it is easier to pass by twenty affronts than to avenge one. When any harm is done to us, examine whether we have not done as bad to others.

The demand for likability is dangerous. It's a conversation stopper, and we need conversations, in so-called real life and in fiction.

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.

When you become too consciously concerned about "what others think"; when you become too careful to consciously try to please other people; when you become too sensitive to the real or fancied disapproval of other people—then you have excessive negative feedback, inhibition, and poor performance.

Men's attention and approval were borrowed gifts she was no longer sure she wanted.

If Froi understood anything, it was that in this world one's worth came from others.