Quotes about Validation
Lincoln once began a letter saying: "Everybody likes a compliment." William James said: "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
— Dale Carnegie
many people who go insane find in insanity a feeling of importance that they were unable to achieve in the world of reality.
— Dale Carnegie
Hans Selye, another great psychologist, said, "As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation.
— Dale Carnegie
One of the basic needs of every human being is the need to be loved, to have our wishes and feelings taken seriously, to be validated as people who matter.
— Harold S. Kushner
In every position that I've been in, there have been naysayers who don't believe I'm qualified or who don't believe I can do the work. And I feel a special responsibility to prove them wrong.
— Sonia Sotomayor
When you seek to define who you are through those relationships, you are actually asking another sinner to be your personal messiah
— Timothy Lane
Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.
— Joyce Meyer
When you go onstage, the process of getting you from the dressing room to the stage is all about ego.
— Richard Ashcroft
A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
— Oscar Wilde
But the attention he gave me, his appreciation of what I said, even when I said it badly, was extraordinary. You've no idea what it meant to be listened to like that.
— Dale Carnegie
No matter how "important" or successful you are, no one is immune to the pleasure of someone taking interest in you as a person
— Dale Carnegie
It is the experience of having God look you right in the eye and saying, "I love you! I approve of you!" that is the unshakable ground of our self-worth.
— Dallas Willard