Approval Quotes

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

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

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

People striving for approval from others become phony.

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

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.

Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.

President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either.

Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.

In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out of my control, whereas music suddenly felt like this free expression. It was fun.

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

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

My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.

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

She's leaving when the president has one of the highest approval ratings on record. From here, it can only go down. And when it does, you know who they're going to blame. They're gonna blame Andy Card!