Approval Quotes

The people who receive the most approval in life are the ones who care the least about it--so technically, if you want the approval of others, you need to stop caring about it.

You get the most approval when you care the least about it.

O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!

Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation.

If we are addicted to people's approval, we will always experience pain when that approval is withdrawn--as it always is.

We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.

Based on current surveys of public opinion in the United States, it turns out that the majority of Americans think I've done a pretty good job.

O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

We want you to stop caring about what anybody else's response is to you. And when you get there, they'll all really, really like you. It's the strangest thing. When you need their approval, you never get it. And when you don't need their approval, you're so tuned in, everybody wants to be with you.

The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem.

Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.

Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

Needing approval is like saying 'your view of me is more important than my own opinion of myself'.

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

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

Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.

Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may be first-rate, and probably is if he does not approve of it.

Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisitions andapproval.

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 or to quietly have my own life?

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

Don't depend on other people as the source of your happiness or for approval.