Quotes About Validation

The inability to recruit recognition from others cripples an identity.

For the first time, he began calling himself Barack. Partly because a beautiful, older girl told him it was a great name. But also because he now felt that it was a great name, too, a name that belonged to him.

You know who you are. You know who God says you are. Live up to that, and it doesn't matter what others think or say.

Want more credit for all you do and who you are? Be the one who gives credit to others.

Would you rather live your life according to the approval of others or aligned with your truth and your dreams?

The more you are as a person, the less you need to prove yourself to others.

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

Hence we inevitably see ourselves from outside, as others see us, and seek for their approval and sympathy, which is the greatest of social goods.

I counter whatever doesn't work in love with the affirmation of what is worthwhile

While the folks at home embraced him as an improbable hero, Washington was denigrated in England as a reckless young warrior and in France as an outright assassin. He would have been crestfallen to know that, for some high-ranking folks in London, his behavior only confirmed that

Another explanation is that while he was persistent, he was also extremely slow; as at school, some people thought him a rather dim-witted dolt who would never rise in the world, and he had to prove himself to naysayers.

Comfortable with himself, he needed no outward validation of what he had accomplished.

We live at a very special time. . . the only time when we can observationally verify that we live at a very special time!

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En las reuniones sociales abundaban las charlas superficiales. La gente llenaba los museos y las salas de conciertos, pero no acudían allí para ver y oír, sino más bien impulsados por una desaforada y narcisista necesidad de ser vistos y oídos.

When we found it you said the number would be either the client, or a source of independent corroboration, or a source of further information.

No miracle happens without a witness. Someone to declare, Here's what I saw. Here's how it went. Make of it what you will.

whenever we have a new idea—instead of searching for ways to prove our ideas wrong, we usually attempt to prove them correct.

As philosopher Francis Bacon put it in 1620, "the human understanding, once it has adopted an opinion, collects any instances that confirm it, and though the contrary instances may be more numerous and more weighty, it either does not notice them or else rejects them, in order that this opinion will remain unshaken."46

Fine gold is recognized when it is tested.

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

What I tell you three times is true.