Give your approval to all you cannot understand.
Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.
People striving for approval from others become phony.
When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.
Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.
I would not have discredited every one of their compliments. It was your approval I wanted, your congratulations.
But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.
If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.
I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.
Self-approval is a dangerous state of mind.
To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
[Muppets] all have their own teams. And I had to get it over to [Miss] Piggy's team and approvals, but she was with it.
My father was my god. His approval was so valuable to me.
The Gospel Prayer In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would make You love me more, and nothing I have done that makes You love me less. Your presence and approval are all I need for everlasting joy. As You have been to me, so I will be to others. As I pray, I'll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.
As a people we do not need anyone else's stamp of approval.
It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society's approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist.
The U. S. is re-establishing relations with Cuba. But before President Obama can lift the embargo, it will need approval from the Republican-controlled Congress - or as Republicans who called Obama said, 'Close, but no cigar. '
To live is a constant process of relating, so come on out of that shell of isolation and conclusion, and relate DIRECTLY to what is being said. Bear in mind I seek neither your approval nor to influence you. So do not make up your mind as to "this is this" or "that is that. " I will be more than satisfied if you begin to learn to investigate everything yourself from now on.
Self respect beats social approval, every time.
The judges who awarded the 1980 Commonwealth Poetry Prize to my first collection of poems, Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems, cited with approval and with no apparent conscious irony my early poem, "No Alarms. " The poem was composed probably sometime in 1974 or 1975, and it complained about the impossibility of writing poetry - of being a poet - under the conditions in which I was living then.