Quotes About Approval

She thought about Ariel again, how much the girl's approval has come to mean to her, and wondered how one's children got so powerful that way.

No one ever says 'No' to Charles Walker!

I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.

La modestie n'exclut pas la satisfaction d'être approuvée et appréciée comme on l'a mérité.

Officially signed off on position I took a few

El éxito es un atributo de la mirada de los demás.

Ah, la vanidad del escritor... Podemos llegar a ser una auténtica peste. Quizá sea por nuestra especial dependencia de la mirada ajena, o porque la falta de criterios objetivos a la hora de juzgar una novela hace que siempre nos sintamos un poco inseguros, siempre un poco en el aire; pero lo cierto es que la vanidad es, para nosotros, como una droga dura, un chute de reconocimiento exterior que, como toda droga, nunca sacia la necesidad de aprobación que padecemos.

One of the reasons we come to feel guilty is that we move away from the cross and a desire to please God and live instead for the approval of others. Families have rules, our culture has rules, and the church often has hidden agendas. Our society encourages us to be successful, but if we live by a success/failure model rather than under the authority of Christ, we wound our consciences.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

It's nothing to do with us at all, our success is due to the taste of the public.

I don't really care if they like me or not.

No amount of temporal success can compensate for the loss of God's approval.

We tell them how good they are and they light up, eager to please, and try to please us some more. These are the children we should really worry about.

What is meant to be is bound to happen, whether or not you approve.

SAYING AND CONCEALING For I would prefer to have these attacks and please you, rather than displease you and not have them. —Marcel Proust in a letter to his mother

The answer is that we can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else. We can only be the people we are, and we cannot force our parents to love us. There are parents who can only love the mask their child wears.

There were people whom you positively ached to please. If you failed with such people they would put you into a category in their minds where they could kee you and have contempt for you forever.

Like I said...fine with me.

Consult, v.t. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on. Contempt, n. The feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

CONSULT, v.i. To seek another's disapproval of a course already decided on.

Consultar, v.l. Requerir la aprobación de otro para tomar una actitud ya resuelta.

The people far prefer a leader who appears great, to one who is.

who tries to please everyone pleases no one at all.

God accepts you. God approves you. And He has something better in store.