Best 217 quotes in «approval quotes» category

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

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.

I never realized how much I've become dependent on human approval until God took it away. I didn't even realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of. God showed me Jesus plus nothing equals everything. And everything minus Jesus equals nothing. That set me free.

In modern political society it is probably a fact that national leadership can heighten foreign crises to the point where war becomes almost inevitable and public approval, at least for a time, automatic.

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

In November 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched their second major attack on the city of Falluja. The press reported major war crimes instantly, with approval.

It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's 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.

It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

I would rather have the whole world against me but know that the Almighty God is with me, be called an apostate but know that I have the approval of the God of glory

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.

Material things aside, we need not advice but 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.

Life ain't about how fast you run or how high you climb, It's all about how good you bounce. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

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.

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.

[Muppets] all have their own teams. And I had to get it over to [Miss] Piggy's team and approvals, but she was with it.

Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.

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

Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.

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

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.

One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.

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

Our desire for approval can only truly be met by receiving God’s acceptance and approval of us.

Our human condition makes us tend to share only the best of ourselves, because we are always searching for love and approval

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

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.

Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.

Pornography: That which excites, whether from approval or disapproval.

Please all, and you will please none.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

Post-1989 capitalism was far more unfriendly to economic and social rights than was the prior capitalism seeking to win public approval as a more compassionate economic arrangement than that which prevailed in state socialist economies.

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

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

Raised some taxes based on court orders and voter approval.

Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

Senator Dan Coates, one of the most respected members to have in the Senate, he can't get approved. How do you not approve him? He's been a colleague, highly respected, brilliant guy, great guy, everybody knows it. We're waiting for approval.

Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisitions and approval.

Self respect beats social approval, every time.

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.

Self-approval is a dangerous state of mind.

So you’ll have to wait for approval from your grandchildren.” “I wonder what our grandchildren will be like!” “Are you suggesting by that ‘our’ that you and I will have mutual grandchildren? Fie, Mrs. Kennedy!