Approval Quotes · Page 13

I always found something strangely paternal about the director-actor relationship. Actors want so much approval.

— Adam Driver

I think they're more looking at these two candidates. It's a band of voters with which neither candidate has very high approval…

— Bill Burton

Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval.

— Elizabeth Kolbert

As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up…

— Senora Roy

Never seek for anyones approval because no one but you knows how hard you work and how many hours you put in…

— Anonymous

If their name isn't GOD, their opinion doesn't matter and their approval isn't needed.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I can assure you that everything I say and do has the complete approval of the Fuehrer and that I would not…

— Hjalmar Schacht

If a leader comes to office in a seemingly fair election and tolerates dissent, he or she qualifies for our seal of…

— Stephen Kinzer

We are deeply conditioned against unconditionality because we've been told in a thousand different ways that accomplishment always precedes acceptance, that achievement…

— Tullian Tchividjian

There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval…

— George Muller

But as for me, Emperor, nature has not given me stature, age has marred my face, and my strength is impaired by…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

A lot of us [comedians] are drawn to the stage or show business or whatever because we didn't feel so great about…

— Barry Crimmins

I believe no-one can insult you without your permission. Shilpa Shetty has paid the price for trying to desperately seek the approval…

— Mahesh Bhatt

Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in…

— Warren Buffett

Since the truth may not be what we would prefer. It is revealing that so many people today express approval by saying,…

— Douglas Groothuis

Gays have become colossal bores. Once interesting and iconoclastic, all they seem to crave nowadays is the State's pension and seal of…

— Ilana Mercer

When the word began to get out, the idea of tying imitations of aquatic worms was not met with universal approval in…

— Ed Engle

The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege…

— Spencer W. Kimball

When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the…

— Thurgood Marshall

We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as…

— Carol J. Adams

English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if…

— Mary Heaton Vorse

“There is something about yourself that you don't know. Something that you will deny even exists until it's too late to do…

— Guy Ritchie

The Democratic Party's problem is that voters don't believe the president's claims that the economy is thriving. Even people with jobs feel…

— Karl Rove

Acceptance is approval, a word with a bad name in some psychologies. Yet it is perfectly normal to seek approval in childhood…

— David Richo

Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and…

— John Prebble

“Am I going to spend the rest of my life trying to get some kind of approval from him that he's never…

— Candace Bushnell

The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.

— Thomas Harris

Speak the truth not because you want others' approval or any forms of recognition...speak it because it needs to be spoken.

— Anonymous

“you can never be happy and dress yourself solely in the glass of other men's approval.”

— Nicholas Flood Davin

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

— Dave Winer

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and…

— Brené Brown

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

— Octave Feuillet

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

— David Jeremiah

Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.

— Diana Vreeland

Always stay true to who you are, no matter what. Be yourself and don't worry about pleasing and meeting the approval of…

— Nishan Panwar

Any person or organization depends ultimately on public approval, and is therefore faced with the problem of engineering the public's consent to…

— Edward Bernays

In today's world of technology we should no longer be using outdated paper processes to accomplish tasks such as requisitions, reports, approvals,…

— Mark Cuban

It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.

— Grace Hopper

We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.

— Luc de Clapiers

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

— Mandy Hale