Quotes about Approval

By trying to please everybody, he had pleased nobody, and lost his Ass besides.

If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.

Everybody likes a compliment.

For if all the men in the world looked upon you as more happy than themselves, then you would be contented. Oh, do not let your happiness depend upon the fancies of other men.

If you want the people to like you, you just need to spend some money.

you will never please everyone, nor should pleasing everyone be your goal. For example, to seek the approval of someone who is lazy or jealous is to cast your pearls before swine. You will find that God rarely uses a person whose main concern is what others are thinking.

Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction.

She looked up with a certain anxiety. 'But you don't think I'm too plump, do you?' He shook his head.Like so much meat. 'You think I'm all right.' Another nod. 'In every way?' 'Perfect.' he said aloud. And inwardly, 'She thinks of herself that way. She doesn't mind being meat.

Whatever God approves of comes first. Whatever grieves him has to go.

Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do--they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

It may sound as if Elizabeth and her husband were obedient and so earned God's approval, but, in truth, it was the other way around. God's power and strength at work in their lives made it possible for them to do the right thing in the first place.