Approval famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
-- Adolf Hitler -
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.
-- Agnetha Faltskog -
To love someone, why do you need society's approval and permission?
-- Ai Yazawa -
I would not have discredited every one of their compliments. It was your approval I wanted, your congratulations.
-- Alanis Morissette -
Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a fixed quantity, a quantity that cannot be augmented. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism; we will try to demonstrate that it is founded on nothing.
-- Alfred Binet -
I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.
-- Andrew Stanton -
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
-- Barbara Walters -
God's approval is a whole lot easier to get than man's.
-- Beth Moore -
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful.
-- Caroline Myss -
It`s important to know where you`ve come from so that you can know where you`re going. I probably chose my profession because I was seeking approval, adulation, admiration and affection.
-- Cary Grant -
She just wanted to be comfortable in her own skin...But she would not stop to seek others' approval. The notion that she should never seemed to enter her head. Her right to live as she pleased was not up for negotiation, even if it ran against the grain of the milieu at Huntingdon.
-- Charles J. Shields -
Any person, institution or organization that conveys bodies or parts of bodies into or out of the state for medical education or research purposes shall notify the Anatomical Board of such intent and receive approval from the board.
-- Charlie Crist -
You have the approval of yourself. That's quite enough for we who know true inner peace! - Charmainism
-- Charmaine -
The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.
-- D. A. Carson -
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
-- Dag Hammarskjold -
WHAT A TIRING WAY TO LIVE, WHEN YOUR SELF-WORTH IS CONSTANTLY RELYING ON THE AFFIRMATION AND APPROVAL OF OTHERS.
-- Darlene Zschech -
If you are a Christian, your search for approval should be over.
-- David Jeremiah -
Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.
-- David Luiz -
When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Once you know who you really are, being is enough. You feel neither superior to anyone nor inferior to anyone and you have no need for approval because you've awakened to your own infinite worth.
-- Deepak Chopra -
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
-- Denis Waitley -
We don't earn God's love; we receive it. We don't work for His approval; He approves us.
-- Dillon Burroughs -
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.
-- Donald Miller -
If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.
-- Dorothy Nolte -
Shyness is I-ness. Shyness is really wondering if you have other people's approval.
-- Dorothy Sarnoff -
Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of others
-- Elizabeth Wurtzel -
For mankind knows hardly a joy which will surpass that of approval of his work.
-- Ernest Vincent Wright -
Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.
-- Franz Schubert -
There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.
-- George Muller -
Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
-- George Takei -
It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.
-- Grace Hopper -
I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds ... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.
-- Grover Cleveland -
I can assure you that everything I say and do has the complete approval of the Fuehrer and that I would not say or do anything that does not have his approval.
-- Hjalmar Schacht -
People striving for approval from others become phony.
-- Ichiro Suzuki -
A motto of the human race: Let me do as I like, and give me approval as well.
-- Idries Shah -
I started to kiss him back, slower and clumsy where his had been sure, practiced. I was worried I was doing it wrong, but then a deep sound came from him, almost a growl and instinctively I knew it was a sound of approval.
-- J. Lynn -
A Jew never laughs without looking at his wife for approval.
-- Jackie Mason -
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
-- Jane Austen -
The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model
-- Jasmine Guy -
President Obama’s approval ratings are so low now, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the United States.
-- Jay Leno -
But I always reassure them that as far as my contractual rights can go, I will protect them and make sure that they have approval over every bit of it so that they know I won't show something that's embarrassing.
-- Jay Roach -
Companies are looking to be quicker with content, provide faster approval and be able to capitalize on the conversation and content of the moment.
-- Jeff Barrett -
When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
-- John Lancaster Spalding -
Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.
-- John Prebble -
I've always been looking for other people's approval.
-- Johnny Vegas -
If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.
-- Jonathan Rhys Meyers -
The role at the DCCC as well as the role of chief deputy whip - I wouldn't be where I am in those spots if it were not for the speaker's approval.
-- Joseph Crowley -
Don't depend on other people as the source of your happiness or for approval.
-- Joyce Meyer -
If we are addicted to people's approval, we will always experience pain when that approval is withdrawn--as it always is.
-- Joyce Meyer -
Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability
-- Karl Lagerfeld -
Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.
-- Kit Reed -
We will never be the women God wants us to be if our hearts are continually chasing after human approval.
-- Kylie Bisutti -
I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.
-- Lauren Graham -
Pornography: That which excites, whether from approval or disapproval.
-- Leonard Rossiter -
It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?
-- Malcolm Gladwell -
Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step.
-- Maria Montessori -
To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in new directions.
-- Marty Neumeier -
Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.
-- Maurice Chevalier -
Having God's unconditional love does not mean you have God's unconditional approval.
-- Miles McPherson -
We are not to be so concerned about who approves or disapproves of us, but remember that God's approval is what counts. Those whom God approves are approved indeed.
-- Myles Munroe -
There's a big difference between tolerance and approval, and I have no right to expect or demand the latter from anyone.
-- Norah Vincent -
This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.
-- Norm Dicks -
Next to the disapproval of our friends, the approval of our enemies is most to be dreaded.
-- Octave Feuillet -
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
-- Oscar Wilde -
If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.
-- Paolo Bacigalupi -
I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
-- Pat Conroy -
I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.
-- Paul Rudd -
I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.
-- Rachel Caine -
Blessed are the uncool; for they shall be happy without needing the approval of others.
-- Rick Warren -
I'd rather live dangerously for Jesus than exist safely for people's approval.
-- Rick Warren -
It was quite instant that he wanted Harry's approval. Did you notice that? And the children sort of rescued him this time. It's a great turnabout. That's what happens as your children get older. They do things for you, and it's quite shocking when they do.
-- Robbie Coltraine -
Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?
-- Robert Byrd -
It is only the words of the bill that have presidential approval, where that approval is given. It is not to be supposed that in signing a bill the President endorses the whole Congressional Record.
-- Robert H. Jackson -
Would you rather live your life according to the approval of others or aligned with your truth and your dreams?
-- Robin Sharma -
Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sphere of God's good approval.
-- Said Nursi -
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.
-- Sam Kinison -
When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.
-- Shakti Gawain -
Whenever I do a deal I always have the right of approval.
-- Shaun White -
As a people we do not need anyone else's stamp of approval.
-- Spike Lee -
In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.
-- Stephen Ambrose -
The standard God has for you has nothing to do with approval, and everything to do with purpose.
-- Steven Furtick -
we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are rooted in god's love. in such a place there is no need for striving and impatience and dashing about seeking approval.
-- Sue Monk Kidd -
The less you need someone's approval, the more you are able to love them.
-- Susan Jeffers -
But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.
-- Thomas E. Mann -
The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
-- Thomas Harris -
If you're conscientiously seeking approval, you're not being true to yourself.
-- Tomas Kalnoky -
Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisitions and approval.
-- Wayne Dyer -
Needing approval is like saying 'your view of me is more important than my own opinion of myself'.
-- Wayne Dyer -
You get the most approval when you care the least about it.
-- Wayne Dyer -
A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.
-- Will Self -
All business begins with the public permission and exists by public approval
-- Arthur W. Page -
The fundamental way of getting public approval is to deserve it.
-- Arthur W. Page
