Quotes About Validation

A man makes you feel important - makes you glad you are a woman.

To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.

To be listened to is... a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating... Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts.

My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.

A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.

Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation!

I have been recognized from Mad Men, and it's so cool when that happens because I am so proud to be a part of the show.

But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.

I want to do something that people can really say, 'Hey, man, that was good, I'm proud of you, I'm proud of that.' 'Pride' and 'Transformers' and things like that.

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.

It wasn't until The Sixth Sense that people started saying, wow, man, you're an actor. People didn't think of me as the guy in a band anymore.

At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

I just don't think men fancy me.

Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.

We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.

But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that ... I was worthy of being number one to a man.

A man likes to feel that he is loved, a woman likes to be told.

a man doesn't prove he's a man by getting an erection. He's only a real man if he can pleasure a woman. And if he can pleasure a prostitute, he'll think he's the best lover on the block" -Nyah

There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.