Mooji
Spiritual Teacher
"If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness."
Approval quotes
Approval
169 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Madonna Ciccone
Singer
"I became an overachiever to get approval from the world."
Joseph Crowley
Politician
"The role at the DCCC as well as the role of chief deputy whip - I wouldn't be where I am in those spots if it were not for the speaker's approval."
Cary Grant
Actor
"It`s important to know where you`ve come from so that you can know where you`re going. I probably chose my profession because I was seeking approval, adulation, admiration and affection."
Deepak Chopra
Author, Speaker
"Once you know who you really are, being is enough. You feel neither superior to anyone nor inferior to anyone and you have no need for approval because you've awakened to your own infinite worth."
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"Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sphere of God's good approval."
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"Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisitions and approval."
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"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!"
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"The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern."
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"When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power."
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"As a people we do not need anyone else's stamp of approval."
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"The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step."
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"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."
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"I loved the fact that it wasn't my responsibility to change somebody, that it was God's, that my part was just to communicate love and approval."
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"Self-approval is a dangerous state of mind."
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"To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval."
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"To be acknowledged for who and what I am, no more, no less. Not for acclaim, not for approval, but, the simple truth of that recognition. This has been the elemental drive of my existence, and it must be achieved, if I am to live or die with dignity."
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"Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval."
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"Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable."
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"Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence."
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"The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul."
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"The applause of a single human being is of great consequence."
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"Doing Made In Heaven was like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, but I wouldn't have put my seal of approval on it if I hadn't thought it was up to standard."
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"Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make."
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"Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves."
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