Approval Quotes · Page 12

I supported the Iraq resolution, but that was not an approval of war in Iraq and certainly was not approval for an…

— Bob Barr

I'm done with trying to seek other people's approval. From here on now its just me and approving myself. I'm done.

— Anonymous

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

Would you rather live your life according to the approval of others or aligned with your truth and your dreams?

— Anonymous

Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

— George Bernard Shaw

This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.

— Norm Dicks

If we are addicted to people's approval, we will always experience pain when that approval is withdrawn--as it always is.

— Joyce Meyer

Happiness means loving yourself and being less concerned with the approval of others.

— Karina Barton

But I always reassure them that as far as my contractual rights can go, I will protect them and make sure that…

— Jay Roach

If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Sometimes people will hear you and be able to change their behavior, but often their behavior has more to do with their…

— Jillian Michaels

I built a studio in my house so I can be with my kids. I go out to my approval meetings [for…

— Jessica Simpson

A year ago, my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the supreme court had just withdrawn, and my vice…

— George W. Bush

If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Whenever I write about my family, I start by getting my parent's approval. I like to think I write about them with…

— David Sedaris

Vic pointed at him, two finger-guns of approval. “I like a man who knows the value of words, doesn’t spend ’em too…

— Claudia Gray

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in…

— C. S. Lewis

Compared to other parents, remarried parents seem more desirous of their child's approval, more alert to the child's emotional state, and more…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Self-love grows when you trust that the universe is on your side, form your desires from the heart and watch the higher…

— Deepak Chopra

President Bush has embarked on an eight-day tour of the continent. He hopes this one goes better than the other ones he's…

— Stephen Colbert

George W. Bush's approval ratings have plummeted as Americans realize that it's not gay marriage that's destroying the country, but rather the…

— Michelangelo Signorile

Freedom and happiness come from understanding - and working with - our limits. Begin at once a program of self-mastery. Stick with…

— Epictetus

The need of an insecure psychiatrist to draw security from a virtuous adjustment to the conventionalities of his time and from a…

— Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

I never realized how much I've become dependent on human approval until God took it away. I didn't even realize that I…

— Tullian Tchividjian

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

— Steve Maraboli

You don't realize you're vying for the approval of everyone so much until being yourself is not approved of.

— Lecrae

With age comes wisdom and confidence, and I don't feel like I'm seeking approval as much as I used to from other…

— Terri Clark

Stop needing the approval of others, and you'll receive more approval and support than ever...

— Milana May

Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.

— C. S. Lewis

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

— Rachel Caine

Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.

— Daniel Dennett

Las Vegas is a city of kickbacks. A desert city of greased palms. A place where a $20 bill can buy approval,…

— Nicholas Pileggi

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

— Alanis Morissette

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

— Margie Warrell

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

— Mandy Hale

Winning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of…

— Jane Fonda

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

— Johannes Kepler

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

— Joyce Meyer

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

— Robert Byrd