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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Approval.
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology Inspirational Positive Values Self Self-Esteem Self-Confidence Pride
Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren
Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger,
regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue.
Let go of the need for approval.
- Lama Surya Das
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Make your important choices in life
based on your values and your long-term objectives
rather than on a need for approval.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
Know that you do not need the approval of others.
You are unique and magnificent. Stand tall, stand proud.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't look for approval from anyone other than yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
While it is natural to feel some degree of
need for the approval of others, be careful.
If you find yourself unwilling to
take actions that others disapprove of,
you have lost control of your own life
and have given your destiny to others.
An excessive need-for-approval
is a sign of low self-esteem,
and in severe cases, a condition termed co-dependency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Question with boldness even the existence of a God;
because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason,
than that of blind-folded fear.
- Thomas Jefferson
Fix reason firmly in her seat,
and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion.
Question with boldness even the existence of a God;
because, if there be one,
he must more approve of the homage of reason,
than that of blindfolded fear.
- Thomas Jefferson
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting
on his past actions and their motives -
of approving of some and disapproving of others.
- Charles Darwin
Compassion is the universal standard of moral living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A person acting from a motivation
of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority
that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
If we are to go forward, we must go back
and rediscover those precious values -
that all reality hinges on moral foundations
and that all reality has spiritual control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The acceptance of oneself is
the essence of the whole moral problem
and the epitome of a whole outlook on life.
- Carl Jung
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am not interested in power for power's sake,
but I'm interested in power that is moral,
that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Increase of material comforts,
it may be generally laid down,
does not in any way whatsoever
conduce to moral growth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
About morals: I know only that
what is moral is what you feel good after
and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway
Moral authority is never retained by
any attempt to hold on to it.
It comes without seeking and
is retained without effort.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The moral arc of the universe
bends at the elbow of justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside,
is that they cannot win and their participants know it.
Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary
because it invites defeat.
It involves an emotional catharsis,
but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The worst government is often the most moral.
One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane.
But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
- H. L. Mencken
It is curious - curious that physical courage
should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
- Mark Twain
The interests of a nation, when well understood,
will be found to coincide with their moral duties.
- Thomas Jefferson
I look forward to a great future for America -
a future in which our country will match its military strength
with our moral restraint,
its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
- John F. Kennedy
I am an Epicurean.
I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus
as containing everything rational in moral philosophy
which Greek and Roman leave to us.
- Thomas Jefferson
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
Whether one believes in a religion or not,
and whether one believes in rebirth or not,
there isn't anyone who doesn't
appreciate kindness and compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
It's a relationship between equals.
Only when we know our own darkness well
can we be present with the darkness of others.
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be kind whenever possible; and it is always possible.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
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