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• A leader must identify himself with the group, must back up the group, even at the risk of displeasing superiors. He must believe that the group wants from him a sense of approval. If this feeling prevails, production, discipline, morale will be high, and in return, you can demand the cooperation to promote the goals of the community.

  Vince Lombardi

  Leadership, Believe, Discipline

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his country when he know he is right, who can defy those in authority over him, who can take punishment and prison and remain steadfast-that is a man of courage. The fellow whom you taunt as a 'slacker' because he refuses to turn murderer-he needs courage. But do you need much courage just to obey orders, to do as you are told and to fall in line with thousands of others to the tune of general approval and the Star Spangled Banner?

  Alexander Berkman

  Country, Stars, War

  Alexander Berkman (2010). “Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism”, p.30, Lulu.com

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• If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyone's expectations is the number one goal, you have sacrificed your uniqueness, and therefore your excellence.

  Hope Solo

  Soccer, Football, Dream

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

  Joyce Meyer

  Inspiration, People, Source

  Twitter post from May 14, 2013

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• A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Home, Men

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• Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Self, Approval Of Others

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Portable Mark Twain”, p.514, Penguin

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• I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love.

  Wendell Berry

  Life, Believe, Redemption

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.146, Counterpoint

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• Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward the world, the faith in one's purpose, and the sufficiency of one's own approval as a justification for one's own acts.

  Clarence Darrow

  Peace, Attitude, Men

  Clarence Darrow, S. T. Joshi (2005). “Closing Arguments: Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and Society”, p.89, Ohio University Press

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  If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

  Barbara Jordan

  Peace, Ubuntu, Majority

  Barbara Jordan, Max R. Sherman (2007). “Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth With Eloquent Thunder”

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• Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.

  Daniel Dennett

  Religion, Agents, Social

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• So long as you are still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Long

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Jan 15, 2017

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• We must return immigration to a logical, orderly process where people fill out their applications and wait for approval. We must make sure illegal immigrants stop storming our borders. We must establiesh the correct criteria, such as our need for certain job skills or education, for granting the right to immigrate into the United States.

  Ross Perot

  Jobs, Skills, People

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• The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Appreciation, Appreciate, Applause

  Samuel Johnson (1798). “Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.91

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• If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen."

  Byron Katie

  Love, Appreciation, Prayer

  Twitter post from May 30, 2013

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• It's not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It's particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.

  Byron Katie

  Appreciation, Believe, Needs

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• At a time when our country is waging two wars, approval ratings for Congress are at historic lows, unemployment is at a 70-year high and financial institutions have collapsed around us, I can't imagine anyone seriously opposing a National Day of Prayer.

  Franklin Graham

  Country, Prayer, War

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• The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.

  D. A. Carson

  Prayer, Reputation, Praying

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• My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it

  Robert Montgomery

  Clever, Believe, Advice

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• Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a fixed quantity, a quantity that cannot be augmented. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism; we will try to demonstrate that it is founded on nothing.

  Alfred Binet

  Intelligent, Trying, Philosopher

  "Modern Ideas About Children". Book by Alfred Binet, 1909.

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Nature, Men, Tests

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.94, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tested, and expressed. What the Constitution says is that these judgments are for the individual to make, not for the Government to decree, even with the mandate or approval of a majority. Technology expands the capacity to choose; and it denies the potential of this revolution if we assume the Government is best positioned to make these choices for us.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Art, Technology, Government

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• She believes in love and romance. She believes her life is one day going to be transformed into something wonderful and exciting. She has hopes and fears and worries, just like anyone. Sometimes she feels frightened. Sometimes she feels unloved. Sometimes she feels she will never gain approval from those people who are most important to her. But she’s brave and good-hearted and faces her life head-on.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Believe, People, Worry

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• Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.

  Ted Allen

  Expression, People, Generosity

  "Things a Man Should Know About Entertaining" by Ted Allen, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I have no methods. All I do is accept people as they are.

  Joan Rivers

  People, Accepting, Method

  "11 Things Joan Rivers Taught Us About Life" by Erin Weinger, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 4, 2014.

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• When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined to give it. But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism - you learn this as you go on.

  Will Self

  Giving, Creative, Criticism

  "Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2013.

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