If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.
Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives.
Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.
We're so used to presenting ourselves and getting approval according to our achievements that it's difficult to be authentic and trust that we'll be accepted just as we are.
Who knows if John McCain could have won that presidential campaign [2008] in any circumstances when George W. Bush the outgoing Republican president had a 22 percent approval rating.
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.
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.
It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.
Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.
When we want to let go of a situation no matter what it is we must be able to "bless" it. When you bless something you sanction it giving it your approval and endorsement freeing it to go forward with your cooperation and support.
Next to the disapproval of our friends, the approval of our enemies is most to be dreaded.
Doing Made In Heaven was like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, but I wouldn't have put my seal of approval on it if I hadn't thought it was up to standard.
People striving for approval from others become phony.
If you are a Christian, your search for approval should be over.
It was quite instant that he wanted Harry's approval. Did you notice that? And the children sort of rescued him this time. It's a great turnabout. That's what happens as your children get older. They do things for you, and it's quite shocking when they do.
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.
Life ain't about how fast you run or how high you climb, It's all about how good you bounce. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.
If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.