Quotes About Validation

I don't think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, it's nice. It really is.

When people are still getting pleasure from something that you did 30 years ago, it makes you feel good. I always say it makes an old man happy.

Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.

I've never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn't know how really great he is.

I doubt anybody gets taken seriously for very long. I'll be on some reality show in about six years going, Hey, I had a great year in 2006.

Everybody can have one great year. I've got to prove I can do it again.

One of the great things about drama is that it makes you feel like you're not a crackpot, and that there are other people who think and feel the way you do.

Popularity is when other people like you. Happiness is when you like yourself.

If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.

Sometimes you need to let people feel important by disliking you. It's their little happiness.

I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I'd be happy. It's so empty. It's never what I wanted, ever. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants - to be loved.

We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness.

Don't depend on other people as the source of your happiness or for approval.

Nothing will sabotage our happiness and success more thoroughly than the fear that we are not enough.

My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.

As a child I was told by my parents that I was happy, but I did not believe them.

We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else's opinion that we do not look happy.

If you cannot see my worth, you then, in turn, are worthless to me

One of the fascinating things about our lives - and minds - is that tend to spend years wishing and wanting others and the world around to see in us that which we ourselves do not appreciate fully.

I don't doubt myself ever, but people that don't know me do. I've been playing for 15 years, and have the most playoffs wins in Wings history for a reason, and not because I'm a bad goalie.