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Quotes About Approval

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
~ Noel Coward
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
~ William Hazlitt
People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the question : "Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired?" The main question is: "Can I love?
~ Erich Fromm
Having God's unconditional love does not mean you have God's unconditional approval.
~ Miles McPherson
People's love for us may change, depending on what we do or don't do to please them. But God's does not-it's everlasting.
~ Stormie Omartian
Always speak and think kindly about yourself, because your soul needs your love and approval.
~ Doreen Virtue
It's important to know where you've come from so that you can know where you're going. I probably chose my profession because I was seeking approval, adulation, admiration and affection.
~ Cary Grant
The ones that love us least, are the ones we'll die to please.
~ Paul Westerberg
If you're not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it's hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that's really not an ingredient for a happy life.
~ Anne Hathaway
I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love.
~ Wendell Berry
A good book is not the same as a successful one.
~ Johnny Rich
It's just facts, Mrs Brady. Facts, to help women take control of their own bodies, their own lives. Nothing sinful about it. Hell, even our own federal court approved that book.
~ Jojo Moyes
A lot of people move around in life chronically ashamed of how they look, or how they feel, or what they said, or what they did. It's like a permanent adolescent concern. Adolescence is when you're permanently concerned about what other people think of you.
~ Jon Ronson
Another thing he speaks of as matter of comfort is, that as he had approved himself to his own conscience, so he had also to the consciences of his hearers, the Corinthians, whom he now wrote to, and that they should approve of him at the day of judgment. 3.
~ Jonathan Edwards
To be justified, is to be approved of God as a proper subject of pardon, with a right to eternal life. Therefore, when it is said that we are justified by faith, what else can be understood by it, than that faith is that by which we are rendered approvable, fitly so, and indeed, as the case stands, proper subjects of this benefit?
~ Jonathan Edwards
People are trying harder to look right than to be right.
~ Jonathan Haidt
You're still trying to be the kid your parents wanted.
~ Jonathan Rauch
That's as well said, as if I had said it myself.
~ Jonathan Swift
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
~ Epicurus
Karl Bonhoeffer taught his children to speak only when they had something to say. He did not tolerate sloppiness of expression any more than he tolerated self-pity or selfishness or boastful pride. His children loved and respected him in a way that made them eager to gain his approval; he hardly had to say anything to communicate his feelings on a subject. Often a cocked eyebrow was all it took.
~ Eric Metaxas
Whenever possible, the innovation team should be cross-functional and have a clear team leader, like the Toyota shusa. It should be empowered to build, market, and deploy products or features in the sandbox without prior approval. It should be required to report on the success or failure of those efforts by using standard actionable metrics and innovation accounting.
~ Eric Ries
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
~ Erica Jong
I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.
~ Erich Segal
Perfect!" mewed Mistyfoot.
~ Erin Hunter