Quotes About Validation

Measure your success by the number of people who envy you.

Living to please people is like chasing many shadows at the same time!

The dream is yours… why are you asking others to validate or nourish it? Your journey must be self-propelled. It must be fueled from within.

What you do doesn't define you. You can't let your failures, or your success for that matter, dictate how you view yourself. You are loved.

Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people.

Success is not about how others feel about you, its about how you feel about yourself.

Be careful! If the opinion of others is your gauge, then it is also your goal. If you concern yourself with what others think, then you can only go as far as others think. You're better than that!

I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.

Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.

The messages our kids receive from teachers, coaches--and even, with the best intentions, from us - can push them toward pride or despair...toward self-righteousness or self-hatred.

None of my English teachers in college were praising me or telling me I was anything special. But then in creative writing classes they were. And I enjoyed those more anyway.

They do not want the truth. They want to hear details that will confirm their misconceptions, that will validate their fears.

People often share anecdotes with me. I know you will appreciate this, they say. Indeed, I can be counted on to validate the remarkableness of their tales, bringing my hands to my cheeks and exclaiming in all the right places.

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of herself in others' eyes. She does not dare to be herself.

I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.

is a difference between being open to constructive criticism and letting jealous strangers say cruel things to you that make you feel bad about yourself. As

From the time we were little, you treated us as if our ideas mattered.

Trying to please everyone all the time never works. It leads to hating oneself and then hating oneself even more when one later tries to assert one's authority.

One must allow other people to be right, he used to say when he was insulted, It consoles them for not being anything else.

Those who complimented me were those who understood me the least.

One must allow other people to be right,' he used to say when he was insulted, 'it consoles them for not being anything else.' (The Immoralist - pp 91)

I tell the players: You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, fellas, but none will mean more to you than that applause-from your peers. I hope each of you hears that at the end.

Prizes aren't love. Because people who never met you can't love you. The slots for winners are already set, from here until Judgment Day.