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If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.
Mooji
If you depend on external validation for satisfaction, contentment will elude you.
2.
Why live for the approval of men when you can have the approval of their Creator? What can they give you that God can't?
LeCrae
'Why seek the validation of mortals when you can have the acceptance of your Maker? What could they possibly provide that He cannot?'
3.
Work at not needing approval from anyone and you will be free to be who you really are.
Nachman of Breslov
Cease striving for acceptance from others and you will have the liberty to be your true self.
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When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful.
Caroline Myss
When you are independent of validation, you wield the greatest strength.
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If you are a Christian, your search for approval should be over.
David Jeremiah
If you are a Christian, your pursuit of validation should be fulfilled.
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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
Susan B. Anthony
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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
Pat Conroy
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There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.
Robert Mitchum
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To take the place of emigration, and with the prior approval of the Führer, the evacuation of the Jews to the East has become another possible solution. Although both courses of action emigration and evacuation, must, of course, be considered as nothing more than temporary expedients, they do help to provide practical experience which should be of great importance in view of the coming Endlösung (Final Solution) of the Jewish question.
Reinhard Heydrich
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I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.
Madonna Ciccone
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This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.
Norm Dicks
12.
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.
Joseph Crowley
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Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.
John Prebble
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Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.
David Luiz
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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.
Cary Grant
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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.
Deepak Chopra
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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.
Said Nursi
19.
Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisitions and
approval.
Wayne Dyer
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How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
Jane Austen
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A creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.
Will Self
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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.
D. A. Carson
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In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.
Gerald R. Ford
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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.
Deepak Chopra
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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.
Maria Montessori
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As a people we do not need anyone else's stamp of approval.
Spike Lee
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The standard God has for you has nothing to do with approval, and everything to do with purpose.
Steven Furtick
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It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.
Grace Hopper
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Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
George Takei
30.
A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.
Idries Shah
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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.
Lauren Graham
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I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.
Sam Kinison
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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.
Donald Miller
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A lot of us [comedians] are drawn to the stage or show business or whatever because we didn't feel so great about ourselves, and we didn't know how to do anything about that, so we sought external approval.
Barry Crimmins
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You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.
Michael Gira
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
Pamela Anderson
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I don't really think I know myself. I don't quite get how K-pop is functioning. But I'm certain that we need to grab the approval when we have the chance.
G-Dragon
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Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
Daniel Dennett
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Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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The less you need someone's approval, the more you are able to love them.
Susan Jeffers
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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.
Luigi Pirandello
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I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.
Agnetha Faltskog
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Blessed are the uncool; for they shall be happy without needing the approval of others.
Rick Warren
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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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.
Oscar Wilde
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It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in our life.
A. B. Simpson
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Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.
Kit Reed
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I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of.
Tullian Tchividjian