Approval Quotes

Don't beg for approval or expect respect. Respect comes from within and your choice to allow people to take it from you, by how you teach them to treat you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval. Let go of old judgments and opinions. Die to all that, and fly free. Soar in the freedom of desirelessness.Let go. Let Be. See through everything and be free, complete, luminous, at home -- at ease.

~ Lama Surya Das

A Speechmaker's Prayer: Let each word of mine be tender and sweet, Just in case someone might make me eat it.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

There is no way to genuinely, powerfully, truly love yourself while crafting a mask of perfection. I know, you know, we all know—it's hard to let your pimples and your flaws be seen. It's hard to stumble and bumble. It's hard to not know the right things to do or say. It's hard to not look like TV.Sometimes, it's really hard for me to be the awkward mess that I am when I'm authentic, instead of having runway authenticity—all natural, but flawless. But every time I allow that to be okay, not just around myself but around others—I affirm something to myself. I affirm, to myself more than anyone else, that I am lovable and acceptable unconditionally. I affirm that it's okay to take on and take in all the flavours and hues of human experience, and not just the ones that are acceptable in this culture, in this time, in this place.And that kind of acceptance, that kind of love—that's the kind of love that creates miracles. That's the kind of love I really need. That's the kind of love that makes approval taste like cardboard.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

The less approval I get, the more chances I have to develop a relationship with my inner sense of approval. Thankless environments are actually useful for this. They help me discover my own thankfulness and my own self-appreciation.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

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

~ Vironika Tugaleva

If you find yourself craving approval, you are low on self-love. Stop grasping for a few scraps wherever you can. Go home and make yourself a feast. Love yourself deeply today.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval.

~ Rachel Naomi Remen

Certain things are extremely difficult to understand, such as the concept of unconditional love, perhaps it is due to mislead thoughts about God’s love for us. Assuming that we can say or do certain things and suddenly lose this love and approval. But I when I picture God I picture him standing with his arms out saying, Beth stop punishing yourself. And he says it like my dad used to say, with such great authority and assurance in his voice that I can't help but smile, and know it's gonna be ok.

~ Bethany Brookbank

If I were surrounded by people who always approved of me, I wouldn’t need such a deep relationship with my own sense of right and wrong. And you know what that means? It means that other people’s approval is actually a hindrance, more than a helper, when it comes to self-discovery.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

If all we ever offer is blanket praise without any meaning behind it, kids will always seek approval because they'll never feel satisfied. If we offer genuine encouragement for their accomplishments, they won't need our approval; they'll approve of themselves.

~ Kelly Bartlett

Stop worrying about approval and appreciation. Enjoy the beauty and effect of contributing to the universe.

~ Debasish Mridha

The only approval you need in life, is that of your positive inner-self.

~ Hafiz

Never waste any moment of your life seeking approval or acceptance from people. They are not your creator.

~ Hafiz

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

~ Anthony Liccione

Sometimes you must agree with someones opinion for the sake of being polite and modest, but within you, you know that you are not foolish and crazy.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Love is an unconditional state of being.

~ Asa Don Brown

Note that acceptance is different from approval. Acceptance is simply saying, “It is so.

~ Margie Warrell

What I think we as the church lack, though, is a place to talk about how things really are right now. In our desire to be an inspiration to one another we often veil what is true, because what is true is not always inspirational. It's not easy to watch or personally experience a marriage on the verge of divorce, or a child battling cancer, or a betrayal of the worst kind, or dreams lost in the dust, or overwhelming feelings of despair or emptiness. But these things are real. And hurting believers whose lives are in tatters need real help. If we were able to put aside our need for approval long enough to be authentic, then, surely, we would be living as the church.

~ Sheila Walsh

For mankind knows hardly a joy which will surpass that of approval of his work.

~ Ernest Vincent Wright

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

~ Bryant Mcgill

I submit a body of facts which cannot be invalidated. My opinions may be doubted, denied, or approved, according as they conflict or agree with the opinions of each individual who may read them; but their worth will be best determined by the foundation on which they rest—the incontrovertible facts.

~ William Beaumont

I need not present my actions, my words, myself for somebody else's approval. And basing my decisions on somebody else's approval or making my own approval contingent on somebody else's only postpones what I really want.

~ Jan Denise

Are you an aberration to your species?' she cried. 'Cats don't look for approval!

~ Gregory Maguire

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

~ Charles Schwab

We tend to live down to other people’s expectations, especially the people closest to us. It is more difficult to obtain approval of people who hold us in high regard than to accept the lower standards that other people hold of us.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

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

~ Idries Shah

You have the approval of yourself. That's quite enough for we who know true inner peace! - Charmainism

~ Charmaine Smith Ladd

Life is too short to waste time waiting for other people's approval on how you live it.

~ Steve Maraboli

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

~ Thomas E. Mann