Quotes about Approval

This desire for external approval and authority directly undermines your ability to trust yourself, because you've handed this trust over to an institution instead. Now, more and more of us are seeing that it's a fraud. The institutions have no magical powers, as they're regularly proved wrong in their ability to select, to mold, and to amplify human beings who care enough to make change happen.

It's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you.

What other people think is more important than what we feel.

It's a dangerous thing to want everyone's approval, Gabriella. You must be willing to stand firm and take the risk of being misunderstood. We must find our approval at the feet of our Master.

Mental tranquility and physical health are coveted, not the approbation of the Lord.

The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.

We spend so much time and expend so much energy trying to gain a sense of worth from othersultimately, only God's opinion of us matters.

The truth is, righteous anger is the right response to sin and far more consistent with God's character than faking happiness, approval, or acceptance.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

In the end, the only 'good name' that matters is not how men feel about us, but how God feels about us.

O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending church, reading the bible, acts of kindness and charity-they all take on a certain pleasantness of the ego if we know that others will find out about them and think well of us. It is a deadly addiction for esteem that we have.

praise comes from God as we renounce the pursuit of praise from others.