32 Quotes About Approval-of-others

If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and would achieve nothing.

Sometimes he felt as if he'd been born in the wrong century. The people of this time were all wrong for him, and he was all wrong for them. But he refused to become something he wasn't just for society's approval.

Christ continually shouts through the universe, "You have a love that is already yours. You have nothing to prove to anyone. You have nothing to prove to Me. You are significant and preapproved and utterly cherished. Not because you are 'good,' but because you are Mine.

Before the foundations of the world, He loved you. Before the fall of Eden, He loved you. Before He sent His Son splitting through the cosmos to this world, He loved you. Before He died upon the cross, He loved you. When He rose again, He loved you. And He's coming back again because He loves you. When you took your first breath, He loved you. When you messed up bad, He loved you. When you made good grades, He loved you. When you won and when you lost, He loved you.

I must not seek approval from absolutely everyone, or anyone really.

In that moment, I felt, for the first time, that nothing brings so much joy in life as being approved of by someone.

Go for a 90 percent approval rating with people you know. The other 10 percent either don't know you well enough or are insane.

We tend to live down to other people’s expectations, especially the people closest to us. It is more difficult to obtain approval of people who hold us in high regard than to accept the lower standards that other people hold of us.

An authentic life does not require anyone else’s approval for your creative choices.