Quotes About Validation

Me! I know I am! But I love hearing it.

You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn't trust each other and that was reason enough to make each of us right.

Husbands have tender egos, even if they garner their compliments from unlikely places.

The pat on the back becomes more important than the music or the skating. One part of us becomes ever more committed to earning the pat on the back, while another subversive part—that we try to ignore—kicks and screams and resists the teacher's authority. This is the part that gives us all kinds of excuses for not practicing.

But the fact that he never expressed it instilled in me a desire to show him that I'd made the right decision. It made me driven. I thought the more successful I got, the more it proved him wrong, whether he acknowledged it or not. Even today, I still sometimes think that I'm trying to show my father what I'm made of, and he's been dead since 1991.

Like us, our children crave the blessed benediction: "You are good!" But the Bible says that because we are not good, those words no longer apply to us. We're not good.

You shouldn't persuade anyone to love, like and appreciate you. For, there is a tendency he or she will devalue you.

Dispretul oamenilor ma intareste, si nu le cer decat o favoare - sa nu insemn nimic in ochii lor.

the only way to prove you are normal is to smash someone's face in

Things perceived as real become real in their consequences.

It's always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am.

If someone could give me some sort of evidence that what we're doing is really love, I'd be so tremendously relieved...

First rule of self-defense is: Don't ask your attacker for validation.

It was always easier to believe the bad stuff people thought about you than the good.

You have to believe in yourself before anyone else will.

See, that's all you're thinking about, is winning. You're confirming your sense of self- worth through outward reward instead of through inner appreciation.

You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why Because it feels sooo good.

Oh, but it was splendid the things women were doing for men all the time, thought Jane. Making them feel, perhaps sometimes by no more than a casual glance, that they were loved and admired and desired when they were worthy of none of these things—enabling them to preen themselves and puff out their plumage like birds and bask in the sunshine of love, real or imagined, it didn't matter which.

You can waste a perfectly good life trying to meet the standards of someone who thinks you're not good enough because they can't understand who you are.

Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.

He wanted AFFIRMATION rather than INFORMATION.

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

I never had a man nor a son nor anything. I just call myself Missis to give me a standing.

I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.