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Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.
Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.
God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
I would not have discredited every one of their compliments. It was your approval I wanted, your congratulations.
The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step.
It made me feel that I had to work very hard, but I've always felt I had to work very hard to get my own approval.
Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.
Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.
Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.
It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.
For artists, we're always looking for approval. We're putting our artwork out there and saying, 'What do you think?'
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.
I never looked out for MTV... I just looked for the approval of the streets... The streets will always let you know.
Once we begin chasing approval, we never stop running. It's servitude to a thousand masters instead of one to please.
Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
[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.
Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent.
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?
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
With age comes wisdom and confidence, and I don't feel like I'm seeking approval as much as I used to from other people.
If we are addicted to people's approval, we will always experience pain when that approval is withdrawn--as it always is.
Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.
Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.
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.
I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.
Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
I think there's something very disingenuous about literally all people who say that they don't care about anyone's approval.
I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.
Our human condition makes us tend to share only the best of ourselves, because we are always searching for love and approval
I've had to wean myself away to make sure that any choices I make are grounded in myself rather than the seeking of approval.
If a leader comes to office in a seemingly fair election and tolerates dissent, he or she qualifies for our seal of approval.
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 dad would do horrible things to me, but I was so desperate for his affection and his approval that I would keep coming back.
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.
With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.
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.
Most women experience issues of power and sexuality, but very few women talk about it. There's the threat of the loss of approval.
I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I'm gonna rip it off.
Age should be no consideration between two people romantically or sexually involved. Social approval shouldn't even be considered.
Am I trying to win the approval of human beings or God? If I were still trying to please people I would not be a servant of Christ.
Investors don't like being in a world where everything is held up by and waiting for an approval from a very small number of people.
You should resolve not to seek public approval of your private business, when you are not also prepared to accept public disapproval.
My own experience is that there is no real effort in life that is not done better under encouragement and approval of our fellow men.
Fortunately, being on TV has led me to have a stylist. I generally pick up what I want to wear, and get my stylist's approval for it.
I've learned I can't change every opinion or have everyone's approval. If I get caught up in that, I'm worried about the wrong things.
Seeking approval and people pleasing forces you to alter your actions and speech to no longer reflect what you actually think or feel.
We all want our drugs to be safe - and so an essential part of the pathway to the development of a new drug is approval by a regulator.