Approval Quotes - Page 3

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.

A Jew never laughs without looking at his wife for approval.

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 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.

To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

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

Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.

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

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

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.

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

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

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

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of others

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?

The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval,we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness,we are practicing harshness.

We are not to be so concerned about who approves or disapproves of us, but remember that God's approval is what counts. Those whom God approves are approved indeed.

You can't just wait for everybody to give you approval - you will just be waiting.

Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

I can assure you that everything I say and do has the complete approval of the Fuehrer and that I would not say or do anything that does not have his approval.

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

Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.