Quotes About Validation

Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.

Don't trap yourself with the desire of wanting to be liked.

The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment.

One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.

The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one's least impressive qualities.

The desire to please other people is a potent way to distract yourself from what you are feeling.

I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.

Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.

You never need to defend yourself or your desires to anyone, as those inner feelings are Spirit speaking to you. Those thoughts are sacred, so don't ever let anyone trample on them.

People can think whatever they like. I don't desire their validation.

We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.

Why should you care so much about what others think of you, than what you think about yourself?

When you're being told that you're good at something, you start to believe them and then you forget about your hopes and dreams.

It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won.

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.

Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it.

Ballplayers, like everyone else, like to get told they did something right.

You can't be rich unless everyone else agrees that you're rich.

You have to accept yourself so everyone else can.

Like everything else in the league, you want to be wanted.

People are obsessed by pictures these days. They just want to say they met someone, have the evidence.

I knew I had to show everybody that I could excel at something. But I didn't know what.

I have no issues if audiences don't like a film or a performance, and the film doesn't do well. My problem is when they say that the film was good and performances were excellent, but the film didn't run. I have a problem when that happens.

If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.