Best 217 quotes in «approval quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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

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

[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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Please all, and you will please none.

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.

Raised some taxes based on court orders and voter approval.

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

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

Self-approval is a dangerous state of mind.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

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.

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.

The Book of Mormon is the "keystone" of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the capstone, with continuing latter-day revelation.

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!

The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.

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.

The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.

The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step.

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.

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

There is a hunger in every human being for approval.

There is a greater Christian faith than one which settles for the temporal happiness, and that is the augmentation of faith. The more faithful you become, the harder the obstacles get; but the harder the obstacles get, the tougher your spine grows; and the tougher your spine grows, the less dependent you are on man's approval. I came to know this about Christianity when valuing faith before comfort.

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.

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

The U.S. is re-establishing relations with Cuba. But before President Obama can lift the embargo, it will need approval from the Republican-controlled Congress - or as Republicans who called Obama said, 'Close, but no cigar.'

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.

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

The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs.... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power; we have no other.

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

This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.