Quotes About Validation

Much has been written about codependency. All agree that it is about the loss of selfhood. Codependency is a condition wherein one has no inner life. Happiness is on the outside. Good feelings and self-validation lie on the outside. They can never be generated from within.

The famous Canadian physician William Osler once wrote, "In science the credit goes to the man who convinced the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

Being told that he was immune to flattery was the nicest thing he had heard someone say about him in a long time.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

You already knew the right thing to do. You just needed someone to confirm it for you.

We all have moments when we think nobody sees us. When we feel like we have to act out or be somebody else to get noticed. But somebody notices, Topher. Somebody sees. Somebody out there probably thinks you're the greatest thing in the whole world. Don't ever think you're not good enough.

We all have moments when we think nobody really sees us. When we feel like we have to act out or be somebody else just to get noticed. But somebody notices, Topher. Somebody sees. Somebody out there probably thinks you're the greatest thing in the whole world. Don't ever think you're not good enough.

People thought I was this doll that came to life, so I would have different people just treating me very strangely as far as I was concerned. They wanted to see if I was real.

One of my main goals in life is to make those that believed in me look extremely brilliant.

All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.

A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.

I think it was Cosby who also said to me, 'If only 2 percent of the world thinks you're funny, you'll still fill stadiums for the rest of your life.'

There are moments in your life when you see yourself through someone else's eyes, when your only hope of believing you're capable of doing something is because someone else believes it for you.

You can spend the rest of your life being afraid of people rejecting you. You have to start by not rejecting yourself. You don't deserve it.

What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.

As a performer, much of my life has been spent in the spotlight. I know how important appearance can be to teens, especially the impact it can have on the way you feel about yourself.

Everyone wears an invisible sign that reads "Notice me. Make me feel important."

It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got.

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along?

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

All my life I dreamed of having someone think I was beautiful.

Prove it. I'll measure your words against your actions, and from that I will determine your worth.