Quotes About Approval

If pleasing people is your goal, you will be enslaved to them. People can be harsh taskmasters when you give them this power over you.

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. —ROMANS 12:2

I heartedly approve, in theory," said Ibelius, "but in practice I believe I shall... absent myself.

His view of the sky spun first left then right, as though the world were trying on strange new angles for his approval.

I heartily approve in theory, but in practice I believe I shall... absent myself.

When you're winning, everyone is a fan.

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

There's so many people that dislike you all the time, so when somebody loves anything that you do, you go 'Yes! Finally!' Even if it means the dyn-o-mite thing.

I didn't know the word no, because I wanted to please everybody all the time. Every kid does

Time will end all my troubles, but I don't always approve of Time's methods.

Every time you start a project, you're hopeful that the critics receive it warmly.

Self respect beats social approval, every time.

I found myself at a time in my career trying to impress everyone. I was constantly thinking about what everyone thought of my music.

I want to please every woman, every time.

I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time - without UN approval and much broader support from the international community.

If you want to be popular all the time, you will misgovern

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances, the surroundings, were in keeping with it.

The 'Memphis Avalanche' reports that the Professor's course met with pretty general approval in the community; knowing that the law was powerless, in the actual condition of public sentiment, to protect him, he protected himself.

Old Man: The impulse which moves a person to do things - The only impulse that ever moves a person to do things Young Man: The only one! Is there but one? O.M. That is all Y.M. Well, certainly that is a strange doctrine. What is the sole impulse that ever moves a person to do a thing? O.M. The impulse to CONTENT HIS OWN SPIRIT - the NECESSITY of contenting his own spirit and WINNING ITS APPROVAL.

Está bien? Asiente con la cabeza y miente. —Sí.

At the same time, in an attempt to calm Arab fears, he approved a proposal from Samuel that Jewish immigration would henceforth be limited by the 'economic capacity' of Palestine to absorb the newcomers.

PARRIS: I want a mark of confidence, is all! I am your third preacher in seven years. I do not wish to be put out like the cat whenever some majority feels the whim.

There is no grand scheme of things. That's just a bullshit disguise for cowards. The present has no right to judge the past. Or to act in order to win the future's approval.' (Todd, the marine)