Quotes about Approval
Don't depend on other people as the source of your happiness or for approval.
- Joyce Meyer
To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.
- George Washington
To the wind with what the world thinks about us. We are not to seek the approval of earth, but the honor of heaven.
- Paul Washer
You're not really free until you're free from trying to please everybody.
- Joel Osteen
Aren't most diets, even when they are ostensibly under the heading of "health," dedicated to impressing others? The desire for the "praise of men" is one of the ways we exalt people above God.
- Edward Welch
I'll say I'm happy doing my thing. No one says 'no comment' anymore.
- Conan O'Brien
It's not annoying to get a compliment.
- Harris Faulkner
People are really concerned with what other people are saying about them.
- John Mayer
As we should not own our duties further than somewhat of Christ is in them, so should we no further our own hearts ; and as we should delight in the creatures no further than they have reference to Christ and eternity, so should we no further approve of our own hearts (483).
- Richard Baxter
here is the good news, the truth that will set you free: You don't need their approval to be happy! So let it go! Stop wasting emotional energy on something that is never going to happen and something that isn't necessary for you to be happy. They are miserable, but you don't have to be. There is no sane reason for both of you to be miserable!
- Rick Warren
Whose opinion matters most to you? Whoever that person is, is your god. When you value anyone's opinions more than God's, you give that person power and authority that belongs only to God. That creates all kinds of insecurity within you. On the other hand, when God's approval matters the most to you, it sets you free from insecurity, because he will never reject you.
- Rick Warren
When you don't know whom you're trying to please, you cave in to three things: criticism (because you are concerned about what others will think of you), competition (because you worry about whether somebody else is getting ahead of you), and conflict (because you're threatened when anyone disagrees with you).
- Rick Warren