Quotes About Approval

Whether God has decreed all things that ever come to pass or not, all that own the being of a God, own that He knows all things beforehand. Now, it is self-evident that if He knows all things beforehand, He either doth approve of them or doth not approve of them; that is, He either is willing they should be, or He is not willing they should be. But to will that they should be is to decree them (Jonathan Edwards).

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.

If people don't like you, practically nothing you do will be received well.

As long as the colored man look to white folks to put the crown on what he say… as long as he looks to white folks for approval… then he ain't never gonna find out who he is and what he's about.

My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody."

Science isn't about getting the most Likes

It matters not if the world has heard or approves or understands...the only applause we're meant to seek is that of nail-scarred hands.

You can't be admitted to the ranks of writers of importance unless you have sales.

I care most about what rappers think about me as a rapper, and I've gotten a lot of praise. I think rappers understand I'm a really good rapper, and that means more to me than a random person, you know, 'cause they know what goes into making rap music.

When good things come along, you end up saying yes to them. Because they're rare.

It's rare that anybody gets in the Hall of Fame, and to be nominated is good enough for me.

We sometimes let ourselves be rated too much by others - we put so much emphasis on a paycheck or what a magazine says.

I'd rather be respected than loved.

We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!

Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.

When I ran the first time in 2001, they called me 'The Latino Mayor.' By the time I left in 2013, with a 58 percent approval rating, half the people liked me, half the people didn't. I was everybody's mayor. There was never any criticism that I was just for one group.

Truman has become the patron saint of failed presidents because he left office with a 27 percent approval rating, and people were saying, 'To err is Truman,' yet look at what he did: the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, the Truman Doctrine.

Approval ratings matter for politicians, largely for good reason. A leader with plummeting approval ratings ought to take note of the needs and hopes of his people.

She's leaving when the president has one of the highest approval ratings on record. From here, it can only go down. And when it does, you know who they're going to blame. They're gonna blame Andy Card!

We got great ratings and fan interest, and that's what management wanted.

I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.

When you micro-analyze the approval ratings, there's aspects, and the questions come in, 'I love the president, but I dislike X, Y, Z,' or 'I like the president but dislike X, Y, Z.'

I don't know if people say ratings don't matter... they sure as Hell matter. Like, you want to win.