Quotes about Approval

If you live for the approval of others, you will die by their rejection.

This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him

You have to accept the fact that some people are never going to be for you. Treat them with respect, but you don't need their approval to fulfill your destiny.

Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority when you don't.

One day you might realize you can no longer remember the names of the people whose approval you o desperately thought you would die without

Instead of measuring my success and value by my own standards, I was measuring it by how others perceived me.

Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?

It doesn't matter who likes you or doesn't like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

It doesn't matter who likes you or doesn't like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

Life is very short, and if you worry what people think of you, if you second-guess yourself, you're in trouble.

What is most startling in reading a detailed explanation of what goes on beneath the surface at the age of fifteen is that the same dynamics continue into the twenties, thirties, fifties, seventies, and nineties. We remain trapped in living a pretend life out of an unhealthy concern for what other people think.

The problem was that I wasn't truly free. Freedom comes when we no longer need to be somebody special in other people's eyes. We are to be content to be popular with him alone.