Raised some taxes based on court orders and voter approval.
I've always been looking for other people's approval.
Pornography: That which excites, whether from approval or disapproval.
When you have to wait 10 and 15 years for an approval and then you don't even get the approval, it's no good.
Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.
The Book of Mormon is the 'keystone' of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the 'capstone,' with continuing latter day revelation. The Lord has placed His stamp of approval on both the keystone and the capstone.
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval as a child automatically guaranteed me not only Phi Beta Kappa keys but happiness, honor, and the love of a good man; lost a certain touching faith in the totem power of good manners, clean hair, and a proven competence on the Stanford-Binet scale. To such doubtful amulets had my self-respect been pinned, and I faced myself that day with the non-plused apprehension of someone who has come across a vampire and has no crucifix at hand.
Work at not needing approval from anyone and you will be free to be who you really are.
You can't just wait for everybody to give you approval - you will just be waiting.
Would you rather live your life according to the approval of others or aligned with your truth and your dreams?
There's a big difference between tolerance and approval, and I have no right to expect or demand the latter from anyone.
I supported the Iraq resolution, but that was not an approval of war in Iraq and certainly was not approval for an occupation of Iraq.
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
Requiring that an execution be relatively painless. . . actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.
The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.
I would rather have the whole world against me but know that the Almighty God is with me, be called an apostate but know that I have the approval of the God of glory
The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
Don't allow the approval and attention of others to destroy you.
A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are semi-mysterious figures whose wisdom seems boundless and whose approval helps us discover who we are.