Quotes About Validation

Don't ever let someone tell you the value you don't have, in order to be in someone's life. That is often the value they feel you have, not that person.

I've never won an award for anything, and I think it's weird. I mean, that's really cool but it's strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange.

Credibility comes from results. Everything else is just marketing.

Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.

When we know what we want to prove we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

Point me to 50 people online who think I'm super sexy. I'll point you to 50 more who say he's old and looks like my dad.

He's been dead for so many years, but I'm still trying to impress him. That's what gave me my drive. 'Look at me, Dad, I've succeeded.'

He had won, easily. This was something else he could do, and do well, and his Dad had been there to witness his success.

Not to have an audience is a kind of death.

The annoying thing about being an atheist is that you'll never have the satifaction of saying to believers, 'I told you so.'

Somewhere, at some point, somehow, somebody decided that death equals credibility.

Consensus is not always good; disagreement not always bad. If you do happen to agree, don't take that agreement—in itself—as proof that you are right. Never stop doubting.

The first step in helping a suffering person is to acknowledge that the pain is valid, and worthy of a sympathetic response.

One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless

if one of us, or someone else, merely {12} says that something is so, do we accept that it is so? Or should we examine what the speaker means?

Here, you are exceptional...There, who knows? They might not value you as much as we do.

Porque soy una chica, pensó Claire. Casi no fue capaz de contener su alivio interior. Porque somos todas tontas e inseguras y creemos que nunca somos lo suficientemente buenas.

Because we're all stupid and insecure and think that we're never, ever good enough.

he had not the slightest idea who he was without praise, without steady advancement toward a degree and title, without organized competition for some elite goal?

They just want to be liked. Being liked is their . . . sugar rush.

My form is neither pleasing nor displeasing," she said. "But I've let the world see how little I care for its verdict.

For the greatest happiness of women is to be right one day, one hour, one second after being wrong all their lives...apparently.

If you evoked that frown, what you feared was his disapproval, and when you learned that you had disappointed him, you realized that you needed his approval no less than you needed air, water, and food.