Quotes About Approval

Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval.

When you engage in people pleasing you are out of integrity with yourself, your goals, your dreams and your life's mission.

Your mission: feel good about who you are, what you do, how you think, and how you look--without needing anybody's approval!

I worried too much about what others thought—I can tell you it's a tragic waste of time and energy and pokes God in the eye.

Having publicly made a clear distinction between aggressors - the Serbs and victims - the Bosnians - from the moment they took office, they had stuck to this line ever since. Their credibility would be in doubt and their reputations damaged if they were not to give public approval to a territorial swap involving eastern enclaves.

9. Adult children of alcoholics constantly seek approval

The applause was deafening.

My grandfather was sparing in his praise of apprentices. My grandfather insisted we think for ourselves and achieve for our own satisfaction. Deep study of the mysteries were their own tough path, he always said. To live for the approval of others was a pitfall that begged a false turning.

If one man praises you, a thousand will repeat the praise.

I knew I really made it when my dad saw me in London and after the performance he had no notes to me and just said 'You are doing your own thing and I am proud of you.'

Era solamente un animo adulatore, di quelli che non sopportano di essere antipatici a qualcuno, neppure a quelli che detestano, aspirano a essere benvoluti perfino a quelli a cui fanno del male.

my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom

I want you to achieve what I never achieved; I want you to be somebody in the eyes of the world, so that I too can be somebody through you. Don't disappoint me. I sacrificed so much for you. My disapproval of you is intended to make you feel so guilty and uncomfortable that you finally conform to my wishes. And it goes without saying that I know what's best for you. I love you and I will continue to love you if you do what I know is right for you.

Vanity takes no more obnoxious form than the everlasting desire for approval.

Nobody likes him now but the people

What state? A state of philosophical enquiry? I thought you would approve.

Internal documents from the European Medicines Agency, which regulates drugs and vaccines across Europe, show the pressure that the EMA and FDA faced to approve the vaccines quickly.

But I'm thinking that sounds about right. All my life, Mom's been trying to impress some guy—first my dad, then other guys. She even flirts with guys I bring home. It's like love is a competitive sport for her and she needs to win to feel good.

Christ's other source of consolation in prospect of death is the approval of His Father: "I am not alone, because the Father is with me." The Father has been with Him all along. On three critical occasions--at the baptism, on the hill of transfiguration, in the temple a few days ago--the Father had encouraged Him with an approving voice.

The President of the United States is to have power to return a bill, which shall have passed the two branches of the legislature, for reconsideration; and the bill so returned is to become a law, if, upon that reconsideration, it be approved by two thirds of both houses. The king of Great Britain, on his part, has an absolute negative upon the acts of the two houses of Parliament.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move, For fools admire, but men of sense approve;

If you read Rite of Passage and enjoy yourself, I couldn't be more pleased. I hope it gets you of. On the other hand, if you should be assigned Rite of Passage , and you start to read it and it doesn't work for you, just put it aside and forget the whole thing. Tell the teacher I said it was okay. Okay?

My paper was a direct discussion and comparison of half-a-dozen ethical systems, concentrating on what seemed to me to be their flaws. I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are disposed to, but they like to feel afterwards that they were *right* and so they invent systems that approve of their dispositions