Quotes About Approval

I, also, decided to get rid of the need of approval. That is a strong addiction, the need of approval, isn't it? That---I'm on the patch right now, actually. It releases small doses of approval until I no longer crave it. And, I'm going to rip it off!

Teach them that the approbation and smiles of Jesus are of greater value than the praise or flattery or approval of the most wealthy, the most exalted, the most learned of the earth.

The pat on the back becomes more important than the music or the skating. One part of us becomes ever more committed to earning the pat on the back, while another subversive part—that we try to ignore—kicks and screams and resists the teacher's authority. This is the part that gives us all kinds of excuses for not practicing.

Never pay attention to the favors or smiles of man; if [God] smiles on you, neither the smile or frown of men can affect you."5

wanting her parents' approval, needing to think she was making them proud. Parents held a remarkable power over their children. It didn't matter how old those children grew, or how distant in their everyday lives. They received messages from their parents from the moment of birth. Those messages were nearly as deeply etched on the psyche as hair, eyes, and height in the genes.

You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why Because it feels sooo good.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

He wanted AFFIRMATION rather than INFORMATION.

In this atmosphere of doubt why was the extreme risk approved? Partly because exasperation at the failure of all her efforts at intimidation had led to an all-or-nothing state of mind and a helpless yielding like Bethmann's by the civilians to the military.

No Pope ever issued a Bull to approve of something.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking...

Este esfuerzo por conseguir que cada cual apruebe aquello que uno ama u odia es, en realidad, ambición; y así vemos que cada cual apetece, por naturaleza, que los demás vivan según la índole propia de él. Pero como todos lo apetecen a la vez, a la vez se estorban unos a otros, y como todos quieren ser alabados y amados por todos, se tienen odio unos a otros.

I will always support reality shows, no doubt about it.

It's very liberating when you finally realize it's impossible to make everyone like you.

You don't realize you're vying for the approval of everyone so much until being yourself is not approved of.

The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.

However popular an artiste may be, awards were reassuring.

What's better than being able to entertain people? When you receive love from the public, it doesn't matter what the film circuit or critics say.

I never liked filming the ads, but they were so well received.

I don't have any control of how I am received. People will either like me, not like me or love to not like me.

No perfectionist has ever met his own benchmarks, and no one so famished for admiration has ever received enough of it.

I think it's a mistake to try and overthink how you are going to be received, because that assumes that you are going to be received in the first place.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.