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Quotes About Approval

It's always nice to have people love the things that you do.
~ Justin Bartha
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
~ Juvenal
I had a mother complex going on and I was projecting all my negative mother stuff onto her and all of my need for her to love me and to make me whole and to approve of me.
~ Kelly Carlin-McCall
As I love and approve of myself and others, my life gets better and better.
~ Louise Hay
If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
We all are imbued with the love of praise.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.
~ Bette Davis
Nice Girl Syndrome: Nice girls suffer from the disease to please - they put their needs behind everyone else's.
~ Beverly Engel
The country accepted it not only willingly, but almost absent-mindedly.
~ Bill Bryson
approval from the Senate four years
~ Bill Clinton
Non so quale sia la chiave del successo, ma la chiave del fallimento è il cercare di piacere a tutti.
~ Bill Cosby
I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.
~ Blaise Pascal
You might think and be so marvelously right about praise that you open your door one day and the day walks in and stays for years.
~ Bob Hicok
Great ideas that are conceived and not sold are like babies that are stillborn. We need some deliveries within the next few months, even if they have to be cesarian. I will approve any programs you have to bring about those deliveries," and he added with a touch of humor, "provided of course you recognize my total opposition to any abortions." Signed, THE PRESIDENT.
~ Bob Woodward
Ça m'est égal d'être laide ou belle. Il faut seulement que je plaise aux gens qui m'intéressent.
~ Boris Vian
Could you look, sir, into my heart, you would approve to the full the sentiments which animate me. Nay, more, you would count me amongst the best and truest of your friends.
~ Bram Stoker
Country gentlemen who read in their newspapers the speeches of this or that Minister would mutter to themselves that he was certainly a clever fellow. But the country gentlemen were not made comfortable by this thought. The country gentlemen had a strong suspicion that cleverness was somehow unBritish. That sort of restless, unpredictable brilliance belonged most of all to Britain's arch-enemy, the Emperor Napoleon Buonaparte; the country gentlemen could not approve it.
~ Susanna Clarke
Napoleon Buonaparte, it was said, was scouring France to find a magician of his own – but with no success. In London the Ministers were quite astonished to find that, for once, they had done something the Nation approved.
~ Susanna Clarke
Oh my dear girls—for to such only am I writing—listen not to the voice of love, unless sanctioned by paternal approbation: be assured, it is now past the days of romance:
~ Susanna Rowson
It never occurred to me to say no
~ Sylvia Plath
There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road
~ Sylvia Plath
And last, the rending pain of re-enactment Of all that you have done, and been; the shame Of things ill done and done to others' harm Which once you took for exercise of virtue. Then fools' approval stings, and honour stains.
~ T.S. Eliot
At last Niko dropped his hands, and opened his eyes. His perfect tree illusion solidified and settled. Very nice, said Briar with approval. Couldn't have done better myself Couldn't do it at all yourself, muttered Tris. Briar ignored her. But you'd never find a cork oak in these parts. Too cold. Niko looked down his nose at the boy. I beg your pardon? Briar shrugged. Just thought I'd mention it. Niko glared.
~ Tamora Pierce