APPROVAL QUOTES
quotations about approval
You will never gain anyone's approval by begging for it. When you stand confident in your own worth, respect follows.
MANDY HALE
The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Letting the need for approval determine your life has hugely stressful ramifications -- look at the rate of celebrity-suicide. Did you know that there is a website called Kevo that tracks the approval rating of celebrities? Imagine the stress of perpetually living in fear that the ratings will go down!
RACHNA SINGH
"Love yourself first", Deccan Herald, February 21, 2016
He who seeks only for applause from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Good-Natured Man
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
CONFUCIUS
Wisdom of Confucius
Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
PAMELA ANDERSON
Esquire, Jan. 2005
Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Tender Is the Night
And so each man wants and works, almost automatically, for the approval of his people.
PETER ABRAHAMS
A Night of Their Own
Approval is a lover who will always break your heart.
SAMMY RHODES
This Is Awkward
An amazing thing happens when you stop seeking approval and validation: You find it. People are naturally drawn like magnets to those who know who they are and cannot be shaken!
MANDY HALE
The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Both money and approval are general means of exchange in social interaction, one in economic exchange and the other in social exchange.
PETER A. BARONE
"Plausible Solutions to School Violence and Disturbance in America", Critical Examinations of School Violence and Disturbance in K-12 Education
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.
OTTO VON BISMARCK
attributed, Reader's Digest, 1982
Not all approval is good news and not all disapproval is bad news. Imagine that you meet somebody and you think that he likes you. You wonder why. Then it dawns on you that he is a taker and that he probably likes you because he sees that he can take advantage of you. You realize that he approves of you for a rather unflattering reason. When you think through the meaning of this approval, it feels more like a criticism than a compliment. Well, what if we turn this scenario around: you meet somebody and you think he doesn't like you. You wonder why. Then it dawns on you: this person is threatened by your intelligence. You realize that his dislike of you is actually an indirect compliment. This disapproval confirms to you something that you do value about yourself. My point? Evaluating yourself solely on the basis of others' approval or disapproval can be misleading. The mere fact of others' approval or disapproval of you is meaningless unless you understand and agree with the reasons behind others' evaluations of you.
PAVEL SOMOV
Present Perfect
Excessive need for approval is typically the result of an overly negative self-image.
CAROLYN GREGOIRE
"This Is The Only Personality Type That Enjoys Being With Narcissists", Huffington Post, March 14, 2016
Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
The Possessed
Do right, and public approval will follow; either the next hour or the next century.
J. C. LETTSOM
attributed, Day's Collacon
Our need for social approval sticks more terribly and irreversibly to us than dosa on a damaged Teflon-coated pan.
RACHNA SINGH
"Love yourself first", Deccan Herald, February 21, 2016
Don't seek approval. This may be the toughest suggestion for you to follow -- and the most important. Whether you'te a teenager seeking approval from your peers, a middle-aged parent seeking the approval of your kids, or a man or woman seeking the approval of a partner, it all amounts to the same thing. You're giving your personal power away every time you seek validation from someone else for who you are.
TRISH MACGREGOR
Soulmate Astrology
Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
The Moon and Sixpence
We're high on the adrenaline of feeling, even though we know it's fleeting and evanescence. And we're getting worse -- checking texts and emails and Facebook every five minutes, always searching for that next hit of feeling, that next morsel of approval.
DEBORAH MEYLER
The Bookstore
Acceptance is approval, a word with a bad name in some psychologies. Yet it is perfectly normal to seek approval in childhood and throughout life. We require approval from those we respect. The kinship it creates lifts us to their level, a process referred to in self-psychology as transmuting internalization. Approval is a necessary component of self-esteem. It becomes a problem only when we give up our true self to find it. Then approval-seeking works against us.
DAVID RICHO
How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving