Approval Quotes

• A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

  Mark Twain

  Confidence, Good Life, Inspirational Life

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.14, 谷月社

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• The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Appreciate, Achievement

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• A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

  Vernon Howard

  Inspirational, Strength, Strong

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• Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Religious, Freedom

  "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment". "God in the Dock". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1970.

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

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Spiritual, People

  "Words With Wayne Dyer". Interview with Karl Saliter, www.elephantjournal.com. May 5, 2014.

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

  Laozi

  Not Caring, People, Tao Te Ching

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• Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Appreciate, Giving

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• Many people allow their need for other people's approval to control their lives. They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.

  Rick Warren

  Thinking, People, Appreciate

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• I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Inspirational, Leadership, Money

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• I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

  Johannes Kepler

  Intelligent, Men, Appreciate

  "(K)new Words: Redefine Your Communication" by Gloria Pierre, (p. 147), 2005.

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• God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.

  Bill Hybels

  Father, Appreciate, Heaven

  Bill Hybels (1992). “Honest to God?: Becoming an Authentic Christian”, p.38, Zondervan

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• Now, I have big-money offers on three movies, and I have director approval. That's kind of scary,' he says. 'No directors have been attached. That's a lot of pressure on me

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Appreciate, Scary, Pressure

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• I can assure you that everything I say and do has the complete approval of the Fuehrer and that I would not say or do anything that does not have his approval.

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Appreciate, Doe, I Can

  Speech in Leipzig, March 4, 1935.

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• The American people have every right to be outraged with the administration's approval of the UAE port deal. It is time the people's House make the security of our Nation's ports a priority.

  Russ Carnahan

  People, Appreciate, House

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• If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

  Ezra Pound

  Believe, Views, Church Music

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• Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

  Elia Kazan

  Artist, Appreciate, Acting

  "Elia Kazan: A Life".

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• A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.

  Barbara Walters

  Men, Made, Comfortable

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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

  Appreciate, Church, Nuclear Families

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• It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Appreciate, States, Veto

  "Profile: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad". www.aljazeera.com. June 19, 2005.

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• First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Jobs, War, Approval Rating

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• This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.

  Norm Dicks

  Art, Appreciate, Funding

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• Please all, and you will please none.

  Aesop

  Business, Literature, Fables

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.63, Pelekanos Books

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• I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.

  William Shatner

  Thinking, Appreciate, Desire

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• Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Appreciate, Action

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• But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.

  Stephan Jenkins

  School, Approval Of Others, Appreciate

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