Approval Quotes

Next to the disapproval of our friends, the approval of our enemies is most to be dreaded.

What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?

Whenever you are too worried about someone else's approval, that person loses respect for you.

It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.

Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives.

One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it?

You have the approval of yourself. That's quite enough for we who know true inner peace! - Charmainism

When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.

Are you an aberration to your species?' she cried. 'Cats don't look for approval!

I think they're more looking at these two candidates. It's a band of voters with which neither candidate has very high approval ratings.

Ironically, the possibility that the president dodged his military service has increased his approval ratings with Democrats by 80 percent.

The United States has launched airstrikes against ISIS. It's being called 'Operation Approval Ratings.'

President Obama’s approval ratings are so low now, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the United States.

Don't wait on approval, validation and likes from others - always give yourself the highest of approval ratings and work from there. Hold your head up and be fabulous no matter what!

This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.' It is frankly self-interest, self-preservation.

To me, polls are like approval ratings for presidents are like an offensive line, right. And if an offensive line is weak, that means the defense is empowered and emboldened.

Donald Trump enters office with historically low approval ratings, that's where the battle could get fought. If the country turns against him, his Republican adversaries could feel emboldened.

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.

The people who receive the most approval in life are the ones who care the least about it--so technically, if you want the approval of others, you need to stop caring about it.

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.

I would not have discredited every one of their compliments. It was your approval I wanted, your congratulations.

As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.

In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause.

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

I supported the Iraq resolution, but that was not an approval of war in Iraq and certainly was not approval for an occupation of Iraq.

Vic pointed at him, two finger-guns of approval. “I like a man who knows the value of words, doesn’t spend ’em too cheap.” Ranulf nodded. “That is the manner in which I roll.

A congressman from Texas sent out a tweet comparing President Obama to Hitler. That is ridiculous because at this point in his career Hitler had a much higher approval rating.

We don't earn God's love; we receive it. We don't work for His approval; He approves us.

When you have to wait 10 and 15 years for an approval and then you don't even get the approval, it's no good.

Hillary Clinton is given approval and veto power over quotes written about her in the New York Times.

Shyness is I-ness. Shyness is really wondering if you have other people's approval.

If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they think he's crazy. The singer is presumed to be happy and the talker unhappy.

Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation.

[Donald Trump] gets a 19 percent higher approval rating than [Hillary Clinton] does ,among military members.

In the beginning, I used to seek approval from others about my fashion choices. Now, I trust myself.

For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out there for public approval or rejection.

At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax.

We really don't need the United Nations approval to act. When it comes to our security, we do not need anyones permission.

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues, even as singers we sing the blues.

A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.

One look at Rebecca and Aunt B would have an instant apoplexy. Raphael’s eyebrows furrowed. “My mother’s approval isn’t necessary.” Aha. “Does she know that?

Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval.

You can't rely on the approval of others. I used to always look for praise from my directors to reassure myself that I was doing a good job. I don't do that anymore.

I built a studio in my house so I can be with my kids. I go out to my approval meetings [for my collection] while they nap, but at least I can sing [at home] while they sleep at night.

I started playing the acoustic guitar for more singer-songwriter type stuff. I bet if I would have gotten more approval for my "rock playing", I might be a world class shredder.

Approval of what is approved of Is as false as a well-kept vow.

Do right, and public approval will follow; either the next hour or the next century.

When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.