Quotes About Validation

Social media has been such a big platform for my success. But it can also be a toxic place.

Social media - It's not real life. I only caught the tail end of it in high school. It can be good, and it can be fun, but you can't let it get toxic.

Many people get into a relationship as a way to compensate for something they lack or hate within themselves. This is a one-way ticket to a toxic relationship because it makes your love conditional - you will love your partner as long as they help you feel better about yourself.

After my first 'Sports Illustrated' cover, I felt terrible about myself for a solid month. People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. I'm not a toy; I'm a human. I'm not here to be used.

I'm young, and I'm a girl, so, when I post something, I want to see what people are saying or what they think of my photos. I've found it better if you don't read anything and you just always stay off that track.

After building most of Mint.com's prototype by myself, I talked to anyone and everyone I knew about Mint. It's counter-intuitive, because you might fear someone will steal your idea, but it's the only way to make connections, be sure you're on the right track, and provide a solution for an audience broader than yourself.

We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.

Ultimately, you've got to answer your critics on the track, and I am very much hoping 8.41m is acceptable for people.

Guitar players get inward and analytical about their playing but when you start to get positive feedback from other players it makes you think that it is coming together.

Facts - all facts - explain and confirm each other. They are only partially true until you link them together.

Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

We're so used to presenting ourselves and getting approval according to our achievements that it's difficult to be authentic and trust that we'll be accepted just as we are.

Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

The praise helps on a deep level, which gives you the grounding that encourages you to trust yourself. On another level, each film is a risk, and the praise doesn't save you from that risk.

Trust is learning how you feel about yourself, not how others feel about you.Do you trust how you feel.If not, why.

The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.

The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

Three stages of truth for scientists: It's not true. If it is true, it's not very important. We knew it all along.

People are always gonna talk, and to tell you the truth I love it. I love the attention. I do what I do because it puts a smile on my face, and I'm the only one in the world that matters.

guys said a date didn't count if they hadn't been laid.

Enoch understood who he was and that he had a mission to perform. As we come to understand the same thing, we will feel greater purpose and more confidence living as women of God in a world that doesn't celebrate women of God. We will cheer each other on rather than compete with each other, because we will be looking for validation from the Lord rather than from the world. And we will be willing to stand for truth, even when that means standing alone.

My fans mean everything to me - especially the sisters! When you're on 'The View' or you're doing movies and stuff, you're a little bit insulated. It means so much to me when a woman comes up to me and says, 'Sherri, you said what I feel.' That just means so much to me to know that I have that support.