Quotes About Validation

If you had as much sense as a half-witted hummingbird, you would realize that I am interested in how big I am—not how big you are. All this talk about your enormous success makes me feel small and unimportant.]

As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation.

Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true. Everything that is not puts us into a rage.

People sometimes became invalids in order to win sympathy and attention, and get a feeling of importance

they also want their names known.

Haga que la otra persona se sienta importante, y hágalo sinceramente.

It is the experience of having God look you right in the eye and saying, "I love you! I approve of you!" that is the unshakable ground of our self-worth.

Dying to self does not exclude having a proper sense of self-worth, including the need to feel recognized and valued. Recognition from others is a good and proper thing. But it must not be what controls our lives. It must not become the goal of our existence. If we find that our need for recognition is consuming our thoughts and determining our behavior, then we need to move to a higher source for our sense of our personal worth. That source is, of course, God's love for us.

I don't care what you say about me, just spell my name right!

If a young women once thinks herself handsome, she never doubts the truth of any man that tells her he is in love with her; for if she believes herself charming charming enough to captive him, 'tis natural to expect the effects of it.

Trouble creeps in when that pride builds on a desperate grasp for glory rather than on real accomplishment.

everyone was right about you- prove them wrong.

The most important thing had always been what other people thought-appearances before herself or her family. And righteous about it. Time and again Matt had insisted that what others thought about you wasn't the only thing in life. But it did no good. Norma had to dress well; the house had to have fine furniture; Charlie had to be kept inside so that other people wouldn't know anything was wrong.

The most important thing had always been what other people thought - appearances before herself or her family. And righteous about it.

Why is it so important for me to say to her: "Mom, look at me. I'm not retarded any more. I'm normal. Better than normal. I'm a genius?

Me tornei autorizado a existir apenas onde não sou visto.

Take out a dollar bill and look at it," he said. "Now pat yourself on your back because you are looking at a certificate of performance.

Any dollar given to you voluntarily, no matter the physical form, is a certificate of performance and validation of a job well done.

A battered wife will invest all her feelings of self-worth in her battering husband. She has totally accepted her husband's valuation of her, and this is why she stays: She hopes to redeem herself in her husband's eyes—and therefore in her own.

For once, you believed in yourself. You believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.

I didn't get a lot of attention from my dad when I was young. That's a big part of it for girls. Because your dad is the first love of your life. If he doesn't put you on his lap and give you a pet, you do end up not really liking yourself that much.

If you want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."

Self-love seems so often unrequited.