Approval Quotes

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.

The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.

If you're conscientiously seeking approval, you're not being true to yourself.

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.

I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.

To love someone, why do you need society's approval and permission?

EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

God's approval is a whole lot easier to get than man's.

Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.

If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.

I'm still at the age where I'm constantly seeking approval of people I have respect for.

Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval.

Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

A year ago, my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the supreme court had just withdrawn, and my vice president had shot someone. Ah, those were the good old days.

Eroticism is the approval of life unto death.

Companies are looking to be quicker with content, provide faster approval and be able to capitalize on the conversation and content of the moment.

Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.

Don't depend on other people as the source of your happiness or for approval.

Get your product in front of actual, living, breathing strangers. Your college roommate's approval does not mean there's market demand.

What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

The one instrument that has relative political autonomy is monetary policy. Central banks do not need to go to Congress to get approval for an interest rate hike.

Las Vegas is a city of kickbacks. A desert city of greased palms. A place where a $20 bill can buy approval, a $100 bill adulation and $1,000 canonization.

Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the begged or gratuitous approval of others.

Would you rather live your life according to the approval of others or aligned with your truth and your dreams?

In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out of my control, whereas music suddenly felt like this free expression. It was fun.

Appreciation, applause, approval, respect - we all love it!

All business begins with the public permission and exists by public approval

The fundamental way of getting public approval is to deserve it.

People crave encouragement, and sometimes the greatest encouragement is the writing of words that endure. Perhaps you can pen a note of affirmation and approval to someone today.

Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation.

He had a happy canine way of seeking approval without seeming insecure.

Until we accept and approve of ourselves, no amount of approval from others will keep us permanently secure.

You should resolve not to seek public approval of your private business, when you are not also prepared to accept public disapproval.

There is a hunger in every human being for approval.

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

I think the most attractive thing for me when I meet a guy is confidence and him being comfortable in his own skin. I like someone who doesn't need approval or validation.

There's a big difference between tolerance and approval, and I have no right to expect or demand the latter from anyone.

For mankind knows hardly a joy which will surpass that of approval of his work.

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.

Material things aside, we need not advice but approval.

Once we begin chasing approval, we never stop running. It's servitude to a thousand masters instead of one to please.

To a teenager, it cannot be true love if her family approves of him.

I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed his stamp of approval on the Constitution of this land.

Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.

If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.

There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status.

I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.