Self Approval Quotes:

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

- Laozi

topic: Inspirational, Confidence, Self Esteem, Inspiring Self Esteem, Old Self

Self-approval is a dangerous state of mind.

- Napoleon Hill

source: Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons”, p.635, Simon and Schuster

topic: Self, Mind, Approval, Self Approval

You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

- Louise Hay

source: Louise L. Hay (2009). “You Can Heal Your Life”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Positive, Years, Trying, Inspiring Self Esteem, Inspiring Yourself

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

- Andrew Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivation, Approving, Approval Of Others

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

- Mark Twain

topic: Confidence, Good Life, Inspirational Life, Inspiring Self Esteem, Building Confidence

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Motivational, Spiritual, Appreciate, Inspiring Self Esteem, Love Your Self

Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.

- Louise Hay

topic: Love Yourself, Love Life, Acceptance, Self Approval

Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved.

- Rumi

topic: Eye, Heart, Self, Approved, Self Approval

I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.

- Mike Piazza

topic: Trying, Prove, Self Approval

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Humility, Perfect, Modesty, Self Approval, Humility And Modesty

Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.87, Book Tree

topic: Approval Of Others, Self, People, Self Approval

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3957, Delphi Classics

topic: Philosophical, Passion, Self, Self Approval

And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him whom she was created to please. There will be no room for vanity then. She will be free from the miserable illusion that it is her doing. With no taint of what we should now call self-approval she will most innocently rejoice in the thing that God has made her to be, and the moment which heals her old inferiority complex forever will also drown her pride… Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Humility, Pride, Vanity, Redeemed, Inferiority Complex

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2004). “The Portable Mark Twain”, p.514, Penguin

topic: Men, Self, Approval Of Others, Change Is Good, Self Approval

It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.85, Book Tree

topic: Self, Society, Requirements, Self Approval

What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

- Mark Twain

topic: Love, Life, Success, Self Approval