Approval Quotes

When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.

~ Criss Jami

COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHTI was born the dayI thought:What is?What was?AndWhat if?I was transformed the dayMy ego shattered,And all the superficial, materialThings that matteredTo me before,Suddenly ceasedTo matter.I really came into beingThe day I no longer cared aboutWhat the world thought of me,Only on my thoughts forChanging the world.

~ Suzy Kassem

Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.

~ Amit Kalantri

The NSA may, or may not have rejected the invisible secret operative application form I never even bothered to have sent over to them. I'll never know...

~ Will Advise

Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is unpleasant and disturbing to be rejected. It is deeply satisfying to be accepted.

~ Stephen Covey

A balanced inner calmness radiates from a peaceful centre. It neither craves others' approval nor rejects others' presence. It neither pulls towards nor pushes away. It has a reverent attitude towards life and all its inhabitants.

~ Donna Goddard

There is something about yourself that you don't know. Something that you will deny even exists until it's too late to do anything about it. It's the only reason you get up in the morning, the only reason you suffer the shitty boss, the blood, the sweat and the tears. This is because you want people to know how good, attractive, generous, funny, wild and clever you really are. Fear or revere me, but please think I'm special. We share an addiction. We're approval junkies. We're all in it for the slap on the back and the gold watch. The hip, hip, hoo-fucking-rah. Look at the clever boy with the badge, polishing his trophy. Shine on, you crazy diamond. Cos we're just monkeys wrapped in suits, begging for the approval of others.

~ Guy Ritchie

Don’t try to make anyone like you. Work on you and the right people will be drawn to you. Mind games consume energy that could have been used on something more productive and fulfilling.

~ Izey Victoria Odiase

If they don't like you for who you are, it means they're not meant to be in your life.

~ Izey Victoria Odiase

A friendship where you're always trying to be considerate of the other person, always worrying about what they think, always responding to every single text, always seeking their approval and then finally connecting with them, isn't friendship at all.

~ Wataru Watari

More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Stay true to yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.

~ Suzy Kassem

Be yourself because an original is worth more than just a copy.

~ Suzy Kassem

Be yourself because an original is always worth more than a copy.

~ Suzy Kassem

Sexual starvation forces a heterosexual man to see beauty in every single female who he can sleep with without his society’s disapproval.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When you live your life seeking the opinion and approval of others, you become a slave in your mind and soul to others. This is the worst form of slavery.

~ Bien Sufficient

Richard Nixon coveted, to the point of obsession, a controversy-free, stage-managed coronation.

~ David Pietrusza

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

~ Johannes Kepler

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!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

~ Mandy Hale

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.

~ Mandy Hale

Find yourself first…like yourself first…love yourself FIRST…& friendship & love will naturally find YOU.

~ Mandy Hale

Love is the essential ingredient. Without it, sex is meaningless, approval is bribery, and success is short-lived.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Guys have a mental calendar of days in the week, and below the days are empty boxes. On days when they have sex, the box gets a checked. The check mark means all is good and right in the world. An empty box means...not that.

~ Colleen Mccarty

Don't always seek the approval of others concerning your goals or dreams. Not everyone wants to see you succeed, just because they are not successful.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

It was hard not to realize what kind of kid his parents wished they'd had, and when he thought about that kind of kid it was tempting for Paul to want to track, hunt, and eat the little thing.

~ Ben Marcus

I refuse to hold the coats of this generation.

~ Rebecca Mckinsey

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

~ Vernon Howard

Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.

~ Shannon L. Alder

A book about books is like a poem about poetry:Books are knowledge, paid for, all.Readers - horses in a stall.Stallions should always run.Lest they stale become, in turn.Running waters are most clear.In some books, you disappear –lose yourself, and track of time.How I wish that one was mine...Mine, to have, to write, to read...Mine, just like a flying steed.Mine, forever, - to improve.Would I then, of me, approve?I would not, I can't... myself.I'm but dust, swept off a shelf.Fly, can I, just 'til I'm settled,down, beside my flower, petalled.

~ Will Advise

Don't allow anyone to hold you back from expressing your feelings. Maybe you just can't stand a chance of losing some friends, but if you must be truly you, you must be you! Nothing else!

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

God’s approval should be your standard for success.

~ Jim George

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.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Before God put that dream into you, he did not ask for the approval of anybody... It means anyone who tells you it's impossible is not from God!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Pursuing a dream without God’s approval is as dangerous as walking on a rope bridge over a big gutter? Guess the end….!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Jusging by the sour glance she threw on me as she said this, I concluded that I represented those 'late changes' to which all the sorrows of the house were referred. I felt unhappy under the ill-will even of this odious old woman, being one of those unhappily constructed mortals who cannot be indifferent when they reasonably ought, and always yearn after kindness, even that of the worthless.

~ J. Sheridan Le Fanu

When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.

~ Criss Jami

Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

~ Louise L. Hay

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

~ Louise L. Hay