Best 217 quotes in «approval quotes» category

We are equal by fault, but never equal in acceptance.

We knew the boys weren't worthy of passing judgment on us. And yet we spent our lives chasing approval.

What do you think of her?" he asked. Annandale replied without hesitation. "I would marry her myself, were I five years younger." "Five?" Christopher repeated skeptically. "Ten, damn you." But a slight smile had appeared on the earl's time-weathered face. "I commend you on your choice. She's a spirited girl. Fearless, Lovely in her own way, and with her charm she has no need of true beauty. You'll need to keep a firm hand on the reins, but the trouble will be worth it." He paused, looking wistful. "Once you've had a woman like that, you can never be content with the ordinary kind." Christopher had been about to argue over the question of Beatrix's beauty, which in his opinion was unequaled. But that last sentence caught his attention. "You're referring to Grandmother?" he asked. "No. Your grandmother was the kind of woman I thought I should marry. I was in love with someone else- a far less suitable girl. And I let her go, to my everlasting regret." He sighed, pondering some distant memory. "A lifetime without her..." Fascinated, Christopher wanted to ask more... but this was hardly the time or place for such a conversation. However, it gave him an unexpected insight into his grandfather. What would it do to a man, to marry a Prudence when one might have had a Beatrix? It would be enough to turn anyone bitter.

Whatever you dream, you can achieve it provided it is the will of God for you. Once the Lord Jehovah is in approval of it, just dream it; He placed the power in you to do it abundantly!

When a child sees herself through the prism of her peer group, the resulting self image can be distorted.

When will you love yourself: that other people's approval no longer matters?

When you begin to relinquish your ego, you will no longer feel compelled to prove to people how busy you are in an attempt to validate your sense of worth.

When your own approval means more than the approval of others, that is self-love.

With that exchange, a cosmic shift took place. Amy made it clear that she wasn’t there to be cute. She wasn’t there to play wives and girlfriends in the boys’ scenes. She was there to do what she wanted to do and she did not fucking care if you like it.

You don't need anyone's approval to be yourself, you were born with it.

Your adult life was nothing more than an exercise in forgetting your childhood. Always angry because you didn't get the approval all children need.

You've been criticising yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

You will never gain anyone's approval by begging for it. When you stand confident in your own worth, respect follows.

A Jew never laughs without looking at his wife for approval.

Almost all Europe, for many centuries, was inundated with blood, which was shed at the direct instigation or with the full approval of the ecclesiastical authorities.

A lot of us [comedians] are drawn to the stage or show business or whatever because we didn't feel so great about ourselves, and we didn't know how to do anything about that, so we sought external approval.

A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.

We live with the key purpose of receiving the approval of those around us because we don’t know who we are in reality

When believers come to know God's love heart-deep, we are compelled to live into that love life-deep. To be preapproved means this: We love from our approval, not for our approval. We love without expecting anything in return.

When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that no one will know their vulgarities; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majority because they are supported by the approval of their neighbours. It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that no one will know their vulgarities; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majority because they are supported by the approval of their neighbours. It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set. It affords you then an inordinate amount of self-esteem. You have the self-satisfaction of courage without the inconvenience of danger.

When you are your own best friend, you don’t endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own.

When you release yourself from the need for approval and control you can stop punishing yourself and others.

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

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

Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.

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

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

Approval is a greater motivator than disapproval, but we have to disapprove on occasion when we correct. It’s necessary. I make corrections only after I have proved to the individual that I highly value him. If they know we care for them, our correction won’t be seen as judgmental. I also try to never make it personal.

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.

As a minister, you shouldn't imagine you know better than the technical experts in your ministry. In the end you're there to apply the political stamp of approval.

As a people we do not need anyone else's stamp of approval.

Blessed are the uncool; for they shall be happy without needing the approval of others.

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.

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.

Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.

Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.

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

Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism.

Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability

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

Doing Made In Heaven was like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, but I wouldn't have put my seal of approval on it if I hadn't thought it was up to standard.

Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

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

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

Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.

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.

Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 "at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel." "Sooner or later you will have to crush Gandhi and the Indian Congress and all they stand for.

Having God's unconditional love does not mean you have God's unconditional approval.

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