The real power is love, that which empowers others, that which arouses action, that which no chain is able to hold back, for even on the Cross or on the death bed one is able to love. One does not need youthful beauty, nor recognition or approval, nor money or prestige. Let love simply bloom. . . and it is unstoppable.
If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?
Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisitions and approval.
Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?
Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.
Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status.
I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.
Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.
The judges who awarded the 1980 Commonwealth Poetry Prize to my first collection of poems, Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems, cited with approval and with no apparent conscious irony my early poem, "No Alarms. " The poem was composed probably sometime in 1974 or 1975, and it complained about the impossibility of writing poetry - of being a poet - under the conditions in which I was living then.
Conscience, as a mentor, the guide and compass of every act, leads ever to happiness. When the individual can stay alone with his or her conscience and get its approval, without knowing force or specious knowledge, then he or she begins to know what real happiness is.
You know that your toddler needed love and approval but he often seemed not to care whether he got it or not and never seemed to know how to earn it. Your pre-school child is positively asking you to tell him what does and does not earn approval, so he is ready to learn any social refinement of being human which you will teach him. . . . He knows now that he wants your love and he has learned how to ask for it.
The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
In case you haven't heard, my girlfriends and I have declared the summer of 2012 as the best summer ever. The best way to document said 'best summer ever' is with a good ol' disposable camera. Smile, click, move on! Nobody gets pic approval, and there's no time wasted gathering around the camera to analyze a moment that just happened.
President Obama’s approval ratings are so low now, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the United States.
We don't earn God's love; we receive it. We don't work for His approval; He approves us.
Eroticism is the approval of life unto death.
I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.
God's approval is a whole lot easier to get than man's.