Quotes About Validation

The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay. You don't play an instrument. You want people to pay to hear what's in your mind. You don't have low self-esteem. You might have other problems.

I feel like I have been portrayed as if I was standing outside Cipriani hoping someone picks me as their plus-one.

You know the actor's nightmare is getting up onstage and not being prepared? I think the writer's nightmare is giving a reading and somebody standing up and saying, 'That's not your story.'

Being liked by the boys and girls on the bus doesn't necessarily earn you the respect of the people back home. Standing up to them, giving as good as you get, all that helps.

Standing up for Israel at home validates those fundamental principles of freedom enshrined in our Constitution.

An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.

A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.

If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.

In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.

It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in our life.

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.

Men are not our problem; it's what we are trying to get from them that messes us up. We use guys like mirrors to see if we're valuable.

Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.

We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

Eventually every man gotta face the problem of tryin' to figger if it's worthwhile to prove that he is himself.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Old men need applause too.

Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.

When a man is right he wants to get all that is coming to him for being right.

I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form.

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.