Approval Quotes - Page 6

You should resolve not to seek public approval of your private business, when you are not also prepared to accept public disapproval.

Until we accept and approve of ourselves, no amount of approval from others will keep us permanently secure.

He had a happy canine way of seeking approval without seeming insecure.

Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.

The president is not doing well with African Americans. His popularity rating - his approval rating - with blacks: two percent. Two percent. That is somewhere between Mark Fuhrman and sickle cell anemia.

In my morning time with God, I ask Him to fill all my hollow places with His lavish, unfailing love. This frees me from craving the approval of others and requiring them to fill up my “cup.” Then, if someone takes the time to demonstrate his or her love for me, that's the overflow! I am free to appreciate and enjoy it, but I didn't emotionally require it!

The fundamental way of getting public approval is to deserve it.

Politicians in their hubris who believe they can ignore debt or wish it away are sorely disappointed - as we see now with the plummeting approval ratings of both the administration and Congress.

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

It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.

I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.

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

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.

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

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?

Many [of the Americans] polled showed a marked disapproval of the Wallonians, Danerians, and Pirenians. The fact that these minorities were invented by the pollster did not diminish the hostility.

We are all entitled to our little harmless habits, but we are not entitled to demand approval for them.

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

To know John Kennedy, as I did, was to understand the true meaning of the word. He understood that courage is not something to be gauged in a poll or located in a focus group. No adviser can spin it. No historian can backdate it. For, in the age old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.

Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.

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

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

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

Material things aside, we need not advice but approval.

The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.