Approval Quotes
It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.
Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved.
A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.
People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
Focus on impact, not approval. If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe is right and expect resistance and expect attackers. Keep calm and carry on!
A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.
The standard God has for you has nothing to do with approval, and everything to do with purpose.
Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.
The spiritual leader will choose the hidden path of sacrificial service and approval of the Lord over the flamboyant self-advertising of the world.
When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's.
I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.
It's not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It's particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
I loved the fact that it wasn't my responsibility to change somebody, that it was God's, that my part was just to communicate love and approval.
Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
Our desire for approval can only truly be met by receiving God’s acceptance and approval of us.
You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.
Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.
Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
I don't really think I know myself. I don't quite get how K-pop is functioning. But I'm certain that we need to grab the approval when we have the chance.
Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.
I decided to make the life I want, and put energy into what moves me, and not rely on anyone for approval of my choices.
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 didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of.
This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.
All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an 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.
Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.
I see a huge paradox in me - the intense need to be loved and the search for approval juxtaposed with the need to nurture other people, to be the mother I never had.
It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
If you need the approval of the platform vendor to ship an app, then it isn't a platform.
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.
Many people allow their need for other people's approval to control their lives. They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
