Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I am who God wants me to be. Man's approval isn't requested, required or relevant. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness. — Mooji Copy Share Image
I'd rather live dangerously for Jesus than exist safely for people's approval. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I dress up more to hang out with his friends than I do my own. Gotta have that bro approval. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
There's a big difference between tolerance and approval, and I have no right to expect or demand the latter from anyone. — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
“Unlike men who needed approval, he didn’t speak loudly or use hyperbole. He simply was.” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
We really don't need the United Nations approval to act. When it comes to our security, we do not need anyones permission. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual… — Jasmine Guy Copy Share Image
At a time when our country is waging two wars, approval ratings for Congress are at historic lows, unemployment is at a… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
Obama hasn't lost his standing because of tricks played by the Republicans. He hasn't lost his standing because the media's not fair… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and… — Ted Allen Copy Share Image
The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Loving humanity means as much, and as little, as loving raindrops, or loving the Milky Way. You say that you love humanity?… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Poland is smaller than France or Germany, for example. What would a common foreign policy look like? Would the trip I took… — Lech Kaczynski Copy Share Image
I think I started out because I was desperate for approval and acceptance and praise. Some actors never break away from that.… — Judge Reinhold Copy Share Image
Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds. Ben, getting… — John Green Copy Share Image
But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Whether we consider Nazi Germany or Abu Ghraib prison, there were many people who observed what was happening and said nothing. At… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
When I dropped out [from a law school], everybody was disappointed... But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I serve on the Institute of the Black World's National Commission on African-American Reparations, and we have asked the President [Barack Obama]… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
To know John Kennedy, as I did, was to understand the true meaning of the word. He understood that courage is not… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
The most important thing for me when I wrote [Origins] was that at the end even if Morrigan loved the player, she… — David Gaider Copy Share Image
Fights with my father were really quite brutal. I would not live his vision. I would not become who he wanted me… — Kevyn Aucoin Copy Share Image
We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
All business begins with the public permission and exists by public approval — Arthur W. Page Copy Share Image
“She had told me that the approval of other people should never be my goal” — Jessie Burton Copy Share Image
No effective guidance will ever be achieved by seeking approval of others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People care more about outsiders' approval than their own happiness nowadays. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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