Quotes about Approval

If you worry about what other people think of you, it's because you have more confidence in their opinion than you have in your own.

I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.

But in so many ways I'm still that kid, not sure exactly how to be emotionally intimate with a girl without feeling weak, not sure my work is good enough, not sure if the people who are clapping would really like me if they got to know me.

Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them. If a person senses that you do not like them, that you do not approve of their existence, then your religion and your political ideas will all seem wrong to them. If they sense that you like them, then they are open to what you have to say.

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. (Romans 12:2)

listen. 15Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.

we must not confuse the disease to please with the command to love.

I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we've passed the audition.

If we are addicted to people's approval, we will always experience pain when that approval is withdrawn--as it always is.

Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully.

Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage.

Your approval before God is woven into the life and sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, not what other men and women think about you.