Best 217 quotes in «approval quotes» category

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

How much of my true self I camouflage and choke in order to commend myself to him, denying the fullness of me. How often have I paraded sweetness and interest when I felt otherwise; pretended to take careful leave of him on many an occasion when I would rather have walked right out. How I've toned myself down, diluted myself to maintain his approval.

If you're conscientiously seeking approval, you're not being true to yourself.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

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.

I don't really think I know myself. I don't quite get how K-pop is functioning. But I'm certain that we need to grab the approval when we have the chance.

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?

I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.

I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of.

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.

If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.

If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.

If you need the approval of the platform vendor to ship an app, then it isn't a platform.

If you shut yourself up disdainfully in your ivory tower and insist that you have your own conscience and are satisfied with its approval, it is because you know that everybody is criticizing you, condemning you, or laughing at you.

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.

I hadn't realized how much I'd relied on his scowls or his shrugs or his grudging looks of approval to help me figure something out-until they weren't there anymore. Or how I could talk to some people about a lot of things but only to him about everything. And how unbelievably valuable that was.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Material things aside, we need not advice but approval.

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.

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

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

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.

[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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Please all, and you will please none.