Quotes About Approval

The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.

If you are a winner by the judgements of few judges and not by your performance, you are not a real winner.

Who cares if no one likes me? one day i will become rich and you will want me then.

Complements from your companion will do you no good, but if you get complements from your competitors it means you are really doing good.

You've been criticising yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

In this life, no matter what you do-you will never be able to satisfy everyone. So stay true to yourself and do you. Trying to please others, you will only end up angry and dissatisfied with life.

When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.

I never mewt a man I didn't like.

I wanted to stop caring quite so much what everyone thought about me and instead just be satisfied when I was doing the right thing.

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

if we seek social status, we give other people power over us: We have to do things calculated to make them admire us, and we have to refrain from doing things that will trigger their disfavor.

Epictetus therefore advises us not to seek social status, since if we make it our goal to please others, we will no longer be free to please ourselves. We will, he says, have enslaved ourselves.

You can be released forever from the grip of self-hate when you freely and fully know the approval of God is far more precious than the approval of people.

The Climber did not interfere. He praised the education I had received, and approved greatly of our immersions, just after birth, by the Sages, adding maliciously that nothing so sharpened the wits as a passion somewhat out of the common. ("The Story of Princess Zulkais and the Prince Kalilah")

Too much of me was lost in the vision of what somebody else wanted me to be.

are incurably conceited and pathologically unsure of themselves; they respond to stroking the way a cat does.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

We are very much what others think of us . The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

The Constitution does not speak of freedom for those who wish to say only what society approves. The First Amendment guarantees freedom of expression without qualification.

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

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

I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine... gentle yet courageous, possessed, has a cultivated as well as a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own to approve or amend my plans.' Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1819

We have been taught not to like things. Finally somebody said it was OK to like things. This was a great relief.

I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something I think that's human nature.