Best Approval Quotes

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.

Self respect beats social approval, every time.

Having emotional independence means we are no longer tied to the need for constant approval and are, therefore, not coerced into doing more than we feel comfortable doing by our need to please others.

Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.

Poland is smaller than France or Germany, for example. What would a common foreign policy look like? Would the trip I took to Kiev last week require a detour through Brussels in the future? Would it require approval from Brussels? While the West, for its part, doesn’t think twice about other countries when it comes to its projects?

We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.

If you shut yourself up disdainfully in your ivory tower and insist that you have your own conscience and are satisfied with its approval, it is because you know that everybody is criticizing you, condemning you, or laughing at you.

The most important thing for me when I wrote [Origins] was that at the end even if Morrigan loved the player, she had this thing that she believed in, that was so important that she would do it regardless of the player. And I think that a lot of players expected that she would bend herself to do whatever they wanted because they’ve done the romance, gotten her approval up, and of course she would just sort of follow their destiny. But Morrigan has her own destiny.

Why live for the approval of men when you can have the approval of their Creator? What can they give you that God can’t?

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

There is a hunger in every human being for approval.

Pornography: That which excites, whether from approval or disapproval.

It made me feel that I had to work very hard, but I’ve always felt I had to work very hard to get my own approval.

It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in our life.

I always found something strangely paternal about the director-actor relationship. Actors want so much approval.

Our thoughts and actions must in no way be determined by the approval or disapproval of our time, but by the binding obligation to a truth which we have recognized.

The reason I gained so much weight in the first place and the reason I had such a sorry history of abusive relationships with men was I just needed approval so much. I needed everyone to like me, because I didn’t like myself much.

My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you’ve gotten some approval for them. Then it’s too late! Follow your gut. That’s hard to do, but the only way to be original.

Please all, and you will please none.

All you need to find and accomplish God’s purpose in your life is God’s permission and approval–not anyone else’s. When you get in step with Him, there will be a glow on your face that will make people wonder what you’re up to.

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it’s really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

I think politicians and comedians have a lot in common. One is a group of approval-seeking narcissists who will say and do anything to be liked… and comedians are always talking about politics.

The women who don’t feel that people think they’re sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don’t feel like they’re getting that kind of approval.

Politicians in their hubris who believe they can ignore debt or wish it away are sorely disappointed – as we see now with the plummeting approval ratings of both the administration and Congress.

To take the place of emigration, and with the prior approval of the Führer, the evacuation of the Jews to the East has become another possible solution. Although both courses of action emigration and evacuation, must, of course, be considered as nothing more than temporary expedients, they do help to provide practical experience which should be of great importance in view of the coming Endlösung (Final Solution) of the Jewish question.

Conscience, as a mentor, the guide and compass of every act, leads ever to happiness. When the individual can stay alone with his or her conscience and get its approval, without knowing force or specious knowledge, then he or she begins to know what real happiness is.

Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God’s approval and reward? That’s not morality, that’s just sucking up.

We’re so used to presenting ourselves and getting approval according to our achievements that it’s difficult to be authentic and trust that we’ll be accepted just as we are.

A need for approval lies behind all efforts of evangelism. If someone else can be convinced, that will show us that we are on the right path. The attempt to convince someone of anything is a mark of insecurity. (173)

A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.