I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.
The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.
President Obama’s approval ratings are so low now, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the United States.
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.
My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.
The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.
Approval is a greater motivator than disapproval, but we have to disapprove on occasion when we correct. It’s necessary. I make corrections only after I have proved to the individual that I highly value him. If they know we care for them, our correction won’t be seen as judgmental. I also try to never make it personal.
I can assure you that everything I say and do has the complete approval of the Fuehrer and that I would not say or do anything that does not have his approval.
You get the most approval when you care the least about it.
Whenever you are too worried about someone else's approval, that person loses respect for you.
The standard God has for you has nothing to do with approval, and everything to do with purpose.
To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.
It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.
The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
If you shut yourself up disdainfully in your ivory tower and insist that you have your own conscience and are satisfied with its approval, it is because you know that everybody is criticizing you, condemning you, or laughing at you.
I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds. . . I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.
[Muppets] all have their own teams. And I had to get it over to [Miss] Piggy's team and approvals, but she was with it.
Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.