These approval quotes will inspire you. Approval, permission to do something, or the belief that someone or something is good or acceptable.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging approval quotes, approval sayings, and approval proverbs.
Best Approval Quotes
- “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.” ~ Denis Waitley
- “A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.” ~ Vernon Howard
-
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” ~ Mark Twain
- “People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.” ~ Wayne Dyer , People’s approval quotes
- “To seek approval is to have no resting place, no sanctuary. Like all judgement, approval encourages a constant striving. It makes us uncertain of who we are and of our true value. Approval cannot be trusted. It can be withdrawn at any time no matter what our track record has been. It is as nourishing of real growth as cotton candy. Yet many of us spend our lives pursuing it.” ~ Rachel Naomi Remen
- “As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.” ~ Hans Selye
-
“The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .” ~ Dale Carnegie
- “Our desire for approval can only truly be met by receiving God’s acceptance and approval of us.” ~ Joyce Meyer
- “The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” ~ William James
- “Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God’s approval.” ~ Thomas S. Monson
- “In a society where all are related, simple decisions require the approval of nearly everyone in that society. It is society as a whole, not merely a part of it, that must survive. This is the indigenous understanding. It is the understanding in a global sense. We are all indigenous people on this planet, and we have to reorganize to get along.” ~ Rebecca Adamson
-
“Lean too much upon the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns.” ~ Tehyi Hsieh
- “The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of “winning friends.” ~ B. F. Skinner
- “Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child-rearing than approval.” ~ Phil Donahue
- “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.” ~ Michelle Pfeiffer
- “When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.” ~ Henry Miller , Friendship approval quotes
-
“We’ve got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy’s acting like he’s king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!” ~ Dan Burton
- “Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?” ~ Robert Byrd
- “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!” ~ Andrew Card
- “But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.” ~ Thomas E. Mann
- “That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.” ~ Bainbridge Colby
-
“But I’m not worried about seeking out the approval of others – that high school thing of joining the club.” ~ Stephan Jenkins
- “I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.” ~ William Shatner
- “Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.” ~ George William Curtis
- “In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.” ~ Stephen Ambrose
- “Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
-
“Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.” ~ Franz Schubert
- “All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.” ~ Gerald R. Ford
- “Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner.” ~ Laozi
- “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.” ~ Charles R. Schwab
-
“God wants to father all of us until we’re dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.” ~ Bill Hybels
- “We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.” ~ Mark Twain
- “The women who don’t feel that people think they’re sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don’t feel like they’re getting that kind of approval.” ~ Vanessa Carlton
- “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.” ~ Naomi Wolf
-
“But I always reassure them that as far as my contractual rights can go, I will protect them and make sure that they have approval over every bit of it so that they know I won’t show something that’s embarrassing.” ~ Jay Roach
- “It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.” ~ Henry L. Stimson
- “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.” ~ Robbie Coltraine
- “The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education, public health, and so on.” ~ Jose Ramos-Horta
-
“I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it’s really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.” ~ Agnetha Faltskog
- “The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.” ~ John Boyd Orr
- “When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.” ~ David Antin
- “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.” ~ David Letterman
-
“Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.” ~ Mason Cooley
- “Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.” ~ Maurice Chevalier
- “This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.” ~ Norm Dicks
- ]”First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public’s mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity.” ~ Thomas E. Mann
-
“I can assure you that everything I say and do has the complete approval of the Fuehrer and that I would not say or do anything that does not have his approval.” ~ Hjalmar Schacht
- “Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?” ~ Elia Kazan
- “If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.” ~ Ezra Pound
- “Now, I have big-money offers on three movies, and I have director approval. That’s kind of scary,’ he says. ‘No directors have been attached. That’s a lot of pressure on me” ~ Cuba Gooding, Jr.
-
“When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn’t the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.” ~ Otto von Bismarck
- “To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.” ~ Dag Hammarskjold
-
“Many people allow their need for other people’s approval to control their lives. They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.” ~ Rick Warren
- “I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.” ~ Johannes Kepler
- “Please all, and you will please none.” ~ Aesop
- “If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.” ~ Dorothy Nolte
- “The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.” ~ Andre Breton
-
“What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one’s self-approval.” ~ Mark Twain
- “When people say, “I know God forgives me, but I can’t forgive myself,” they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God’s.” ~ Timothy Keller
- “The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man’s every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs…. It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power; we have no other.” ~ Mark Twain
- “We are not to be so concerned about who approves or disapproves of us, but remember that God’s approval is what counts. Those whom God approves are approved indeed.” ~ Myles Munroe
- “It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.” ~ Mark Twain
