Approval Quotes - Page 17

• When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.

  Shakti Gawain

  Validation, Giving, Authority

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Living in the Light: Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New Life and a New World”, p.102, New World Library

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• If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.

  Ariana Grande

  Sorry, Struggle, School

  "Even Performers Like Me Get Bullied" by Ariana Grande, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.

  Sam Kinison

  Jesus, Church, Coming Back

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• Steve Jobs had something like a 90% approval rating from his employees. You hear stories about him being this short-tempered, aggressive person, which he was. But he was in the pursuit of making people around him better, so the product they created would be better.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Jobs, Approval Rating, People

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• Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Hate, Mean

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God is universal," spluttered the priest. The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God." "And with their one god Muslims are always causing troubles and provoking riots. The proof of how bad Islam is, is how uncivilized Muslims are,: pronounced the pandit. "Says the slave-driver of the cast system," huffed the imam. "Hindus enslave people and worship dressed-up dolls." "They are golden calf lovers. They kneel before the cows," the priest chimed in. "While Christians kneel before a white man! They are flunkies of a foreign god. They are nightmare of all nonwhite people.

  Yann Martel

  Christian, Strong, Men

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.75, Vintage Canada

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• I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.

  Pat Conroy

  I've Learned

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• The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Being Yourself, Command And Control

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.13, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him whom she was created to please. There will be no room for vanity then. She will be free from the miserable illusion that it is her doing. With no taint of what we should now call self-approval she will most innocently rejoice in the thing that God has made her to be, and the moment which heals her old inferiority complex forever will also drown her pride… Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humility, Pride, Vanity

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• So you’ll have to wait for approval from your grandchildren.” “I wonder what our grandchildren will be like!” “Are you suggesting by that ‘our’ that you and I will have mutual grandchildren? Fie, Mrs. Kennedy!

  Margaret Mitchell

  Grandchildren, Waiting, Wonder

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.439, Hamilton Books

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• At last Niko dropped his hands, and opened his eyes. His perfect tree illusion solidified and settled. "Very nice," said Briar with approval. "Couldn't have done better myself" "Couldn't do it at all yourself," muttered Tris. Briar ignored her. "But you'd never find a cork oak in these parts. Too cold." Niko looked down his nose at the boy. "I beg your pardon?" Briar shrugged. "Just thought I'd mention it." Niko glared.

  Tamora Pierce

  Nice, Eye, Boys

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• God the Eternal Father did not give [the] first great commandment because He needs us to love Him. His power and glory are not diminished should we disregard, deny, or even defile His name. His influence and dominion extend through time and space independent of our acceptance, approval, or admiration."No, God does not need us to love Him. But oh, how we need to love God!"For what we love determines what we seek."What we seek determines what we think and do."What we think and do determines who we are—and who we will become.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Father, Independent, Acceptance

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• we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are rooted in god's love. in such a place there is no need for striving and impatience and dashing about seeking approval.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Vision, Needs, Strive

  Sue Monk Kidd (1987). “God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope of her approval, were his first prompts to higher pursuits; and, instead of guarding him from one and winning him to the other, his endeavors to raise himself had produced just the contrary result.

  Emily Bronte

  Animal, Winning, Guarding

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• To love someone, why do you need society's approval and permission?

  Ai Yazawa

  Needs, Permission, Love Someone

  "Nana". Manga series by Ai Yazawa, July 2000 – June 2009.

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• We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire. We leave our hearts by the side of the road and head off in the direction of fitting in, getting by, being productive, what have you. Whatever we might gain – money, position, the approval of others, or just absence of the discontent self – it’s not worth it.

  John Eldredge

  Country, Kings, Heart

  "The Journey of Desire: Searching for the Life You've Always Dreamed Of".

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• Vic pointed at him, two finger-guns of approval. “I like a man who knows the value of words, doesn’t spend ’em too cheap.” Ranulf nodded. “That is the manner in which I roll.

  Claudia Gray

  Gun, Men, Two

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• He had a happy canine way of seeking approval without seeming insecure.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Insecure, Way, Canine

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.396, Macmillan

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• I think being a teenager is such a compelling time period in your life--it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating moments. It's a fascinating place; old enough to feel truly adult, old enough to make decisions that affect the rest of your life, old enough to fall in love, yet, at the same time too young (in most cases) to be free to make a lot of those decisions without someone else's approval.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Inspirational, Falling In Love, Teenager

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• I felt that if a man's proposals met with approval, it should encourage him; if they met with opposition, it should make him fight back; but the real tragedy for him was to lift up his voice among the living and meet with no response neither approval nor opposition just as if he were left helpless in a boundless desert.

  Lu Xun

  Real, Fighting, Men

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• When a man can listen to a woman's feelings without getting angry and frustrated, he gives her a wonderful gift. He makes it safe for her to express herself. The more she is able to express herself, the more she feels heard and understood, and the more she is able to give a man the loving trust, acceptance, appreciation, admiration, approval, and encouragement that he needs.

  John Gray

  Encouragement, Appreciation, Acceptance

  John Gray “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”

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• As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad, and of the sort of society they frequent; and the approval of such men, who do not even stand well in their own eyes, has no value for him.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Home, Character, Eye

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• It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit content in the easy approval of friends and of neighbours than to risk the friction and the controversy that comes with public affairs. It is easier to fall in step with the slogans of others than to march to the beat of the internal drummer - to make and stand on judgements of your own. And it far easier to accept and to stand on the past, than to fight for the answers of the future

  Daniel Webster

  Fall, Ambition, Fighting

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• Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.

  Gloria Steinem

  Giving Up, Easier, Earn Respect

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• I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.

  Baroness Orczy

  Perfection, Doe, Demand

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