Quotes about approval
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Please all, and you will please none.
— Aesop
Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.
— Dale Carnegie
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
— Claudius Claudianus
Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.
— Oliver Cromwell
People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
— Wayne Dyer
It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.
— George Foreman
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
— Dag Hammarskjold
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
— Raymond Hull
The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
— William James
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
— Samuel Johnson
Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eyes.
— Samuel Lover
My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it.
— Robert Montgomery
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
— Norman Vincent Peale
There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.
— Joel Rosenberg
The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.
— Casey Stengel
I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.
— Dr. Paul Tournier
Everybody has the right to be left alone but nobody has the right to demand approval.
— Source Unknown
At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.
— Maurice Wagner
Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.
— Rozanne Weissman