Pastoral Resources

Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

But I always reassure them that as far as my contractual rights can go, I will protect them and make sure that they have approval over every bit of it so that they know I won't show something that's embarrassing.

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.

Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.

It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.

This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.

The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.