Top 66 Quotes About Self Validation
#1. All the subjects of the world can be included in the kashays of anger-pride-deceit-greed. Anger and deceit are the 'protectors'. They have indeed originated from greed. A proud person will have greed for self-validation and recognition from others. And deceit protects it.
Dada Bhagwan
#2. And if you ever need self-validation,
Just meet me in the alley by the railway station
Morrissey
#3. If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#4. I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.
William Clay Ford Jr.
#5. Release old concepts and energies that keep you in self-punishment patterns. Release old stories and create from a place of love and self-validation. You are worth it!
Gautama Buddha
#6. I think a lot of actors need validation. If you see truly amazing actors perform, they expose themselves to such an incredible degree. You can really see their pain.
Alex Kingston
#7. A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation.
Ryne Sandberg
#8. In a sense, this is the ultimate validation of capitalism. Its psychological requirements are also the requirements of life and happiness. It is the only system consistent with the requirements of human life.
Edith Packer
#9. The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.
Paul Ricoeur
#10. As long as we are seeking our worth in anything and everything but the gospel of God's grace, we will keep seeking and keep wearing ourselves out in the process. But in Christ's finished work is ultimate and eternal validation. And ultimate and eternal rest.
Tullian Tchividjian
#11. The only permission, the only validation, and the only opinion that matters in our quest for greatness is our own.
Steve Maraboli
#12. Everybody is looking for validation, no matter who you are, and I think that's a need of the human condition - to look for affection or recognition or validation.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#13. In 2007, I had on-paper success. I got to go to that Aspen comedy festival, which was pretty exclusive, I guess. Then I did Carson Daly. That was enough validation.
Kyle Kinane
#14. I suppose there's only so many times you can take being rebuffed before you need some validation.
Jodi Picoult
#15. ...self-discovery has been so tainted by technology and the fear of loss it creates. The immediacy that the internet and all things digital provide has cut off an arm of real experience, trumping virtual validation over lived reflection.
Emma Bee Bernstein
#16. I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation.
Denzel Washington
#17. Now is a time where there are so many social networks, such need for validation ... you don't have to be a star or a politician to want to have likes or dislikes. Now there is a disease of popularity in the whole society.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#18. When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.
Shakti Gawain
#19. Don't wait on approval, validation and likes from others - always give yourself the highest of approval ratings and work from there. Hold your head up and be fabulous no matter what!
Jody Watley
#20. When you begin to relinquish your ego, you will no longer feel compelled to prove to people how busy you are in an attempt to validate your sense of worth.
Miya Yamanouchi
#21. If you persistently seek validation from others, you will inadvertently invalidate your own self-worth.
Auliq Ice
#22. I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.
Lee Child
#23. Cristina Yang was the walking validation of my dreams.
Shonda Rhimes
#24. You think about people like Elvis, Kurt Cobain, or the Beatles, who grew up without privilege and needed a certain validation through peoples' acceptance, or admiration from their peers. And money is part of that, but it always comes too late.
Bradford Cox
#25. To be in 'Vogue' has to mean something. It's an endorsement. It's a validation.
Anna Wintour
#26. The world needs women who stop asking for permission from the principal. Permission to live their lives as they deeply know they often should. I think we still look to authority figures for validation, recognition, permission.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#27. World's definition of success
material validation of self
cold and naked substitute
for inner warmth and beauty.
David W. Earle
#28. It would be real nice to have some kind of bell or whistle attached to this film - it would give it a longer life. People seem to need that validation to go to a film these days.
David Strathairn
#29. An amazing thing happens when you stop seeking approval and validation: You find it. People are naturally drawn like magnets to those who know who they are and cannot be shaken!
Mandy Hale
#30. You'll have less heartaches and disappointments if you stop seeking from others the things ONLY God and you can give yourself!
Yvonne Pierre
#31. For all the self-improvement books I had read, I still wasn't above shallow validation-seeking. None of us were. That's why we were in the game. Sex wasn't about getting our rocks off; it was about being accepted.
Neil Strauss
#32. When you are your own best friend, you don't endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own.
Mandy Hale
#33. Some people need significance more than they need another person. Change will only happen in a relationship when you realize it is not the person, but the "emotion" you desire.
Shannon L. Alder
#34. They said she could not do it. But she didn't listen so when she did it. And when they stood in awe, she did not hear their applause. The only validation she needed came from the voice inside her head. The voice that had always been there saying, "You got this.
Toni Sorenson
#35. The most powerful and courageous heroes I know are those who bite their tongues when justification, validation, temptation, or vengeance would have them strike with truthful, hurtful words.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#36. Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated.
Jill Bolte Taylor
#37. What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
Confucius
#38. Then you go ahead and cry, " Will said.
That ended my weeping. Had he asked me not to cry, I would not have been able to stop, but his permission somehow quit my tears.
Kathleen Grissom
#39. Find yourself first ... like yourself first ... love yourself FIRST ... & friendship & love will naturally find YOU.
Mandy Hale
#40. Here is the worst possible way for you to try to figure out if your idea solves somebody's problem: Ask them. The vast majority of entrepreneurs seem to think that explaining their concept in detail to a few people and then asking whether it's a good idea constitutes validation. It does not.
Laura Klein
#41. They say you start weaving clearer, sharper memories after you've been to a place at least twice. Because then the reflection is more of validation. Let the rush come to you and let your senses be flushed the first time. There will be time for reflection after you've had your fill.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#42. The Talker needs attention. The Talker needs validation. The Talker would rather talk about an idea than confront the complexities, its obstacles. The Talker wants the glory but none of the hard work.
Jack Heffron
#44. I hesitate to say I was the class clown, but that was kind of how I interacted with other kids in school, and I very much appreciated the responses I got. The validation of laughter is often a very heavy psychological balm.
Simon Pegg
#46. Look inside, without anyone else's validation understand that you are valuable, talented, unique, and worthy.
Joe Sacco
#47. Love,affection, attention and validation - These things cannot be controlled or coerced from another. They are given willingly to a genuine person who can meet the needs of the other.
Anonymous
#48. I think we all need to be inside of us for 3 whole days, thinking about how we can love ourselves more, protect ourselves more, live life with more passion and look not outwards for validation but inwards.
Lady Gaga
#49. I know the money is important, but, actually, the validation of your career that prizes give is what you really want. But the money is fabulous, too.
Jim Crace
#50. I understood cheating, understood the betrayal that you went through when you found out. Understood the lows that your self-esteem struggled with, the validation that you tried to find, the loneliness that haunted your nights as you mourned a future that, in an instant, disappeared.
Alessandra Torre
#51. An artist doesn't necesetharily have to get acclaim from the outside. Maybe it is much better if he can get validation from within.
Aaron Rose
#52. I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.
John Edward
#53. Validate my existence with your words and I will speak to you all the day long.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#54. Pure generosity emerges when we give without the need for our offering to be received in a certain way. That's why the best kind of generosity comes from inner abundance, rather than from feeling deficient and hollow, starved for validation.
Sharon Salzberg
#55. Thank God for books, for validating your feelings, and letting you know you're not alone.
Paula Gruben
#56. That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside. There is no shade to that beauty.
Lupita Nyong'o
#57. The whole world is sick ... we've all got this pathetic need to be seen. We're a bunch of fucking toddlers trying to get attention.
Jess Walter
#58. Could my problem have been that I was looking for validation in the wrong places all along?
Liz Prince
#59. We have a Father, and He cares about our internal world - issues of motive, issues of fear, issues of validation.
John Eldredge
#60. Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.
Sophie B. Hawkins
#61. I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.
Linton Kwesi Johnson
#62. Always remembering that we might be wrong, we must contemplate alternatives, concoct hedges, and search vigilantly for validation of our assessments. We always sell when a security's price begins to reflect full value, because we are never sure that our thesis will be precisely correct.
Seth Klarman
#63. She said 'a tattoo is a badge of validation'.
But the truth of the matter is far more revealing.
It's a permanent reminder of a temporary feeling.
Jimmy Buffett
#64. He immersed himself in anthropology, history, philosophy, and linguistics, accumulating hundreds of credit hours without collecting a degree. He saw no reason to. The pursuit of knowledge, he maintained, was a worthy objective in its own right and needed no external validation.
Jon Krakauer
#65. All bad behavior is really a request for love, attention, or validation.
Kimberly Giles
#66. Most of the women I knew needed the validation of an admiring male eye, even if the other eye was wandering.
Donna Brookman Kaulkin
