Approve Quotes
225 Approve quotes by 191 unique authors
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Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds…
— Guy Finley
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Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
— Confucius
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A tolerant society is one in which we criminalise an activity only as a last resort. Toleration is not just about allowing people to do…
— John Gummer
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In every case, we ought to act that part towards another, which we would judge to be right in him to act toward us, if…
— Thomas Reid
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Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.
— George Orwell
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The problem is that tolerant has changed its meaning. It used to mean 'I may disagree with you completely, but I will treat you with…
— Rick Warren
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It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications of a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of the faithful and…
— Pope Pius X
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I've got enough money in my life to retire now and do nothing. But I've got a duty and obligation to see if we can…
— Clive Palmer
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The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model
— Jasmine Guy
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Back when the Bible was written, then edited, then rewritten, then rewritten, then re-edited, then translated from dead languages, then re-translated, then edited, then rewritten,…
— David Cross
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I highly approve of Romney's decision to be kind and gentle to the retard,
— Ann Coulter
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Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.
— Stephen Ambrose
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I…
— Buchi Emecheta
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Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.
— Pasquier Quesnel
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I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it,…
— Unknown Author
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I see and approve better things, but follow worse.
— Unknown Author
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This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him
— Charles Hodge
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Whether we like it or not, quantification in history is here to stay for reasons which the quantifiers themselves might not actively approve. We are…
— J. H. Plumb
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If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of…
— Herodotus
Who Wrote These Approve Quotes
191 authors contributed a total of 225 Approve Quotes, led by these top contributors: