Quotes about Validation

I learned from my grandfather that when someone believes in you before you deserve it, it transforms you.

Some young ladies are so starved for male approval that what should be a normal attraction to men is accelerated into an obsessive need for male affirmation. Tragically, these dear ladies allow themselves to be devoured in the arms of men who have neither regard not respect for them as people.

Just because people love your gift doesn't mean they love you. Most of them will never really know you. Most of them don't care about you. They just want your gift. And it's okay to share your gift. It's a good thing to serve your gift to people or in places that may benefit from it.

I think a woman is born with the desire to hear she is beautiful.

Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

Man is the only animal that when you pat him on the head, his head swells up.

In his book The Sensation of Being Somebody, Maurice Wagner wrote: Try as we might by our appearance, performance or social status to find self-verification for a sense of being somebody, we always come short of satisfaction. Whatever pinnacle of self-identity we achieve soon crumbles

My mum said to me once years ago, which really spurred me on, 'You're the funniest person I know'. I loved that.

We tell ourselves, It's important to get a sense of what people are saying about me.' But it really feeds some narcissistic impulse to check and see if people like you.

How could someone who had so little respect for people be so dependent on what they thought of him?

Am I going to spend the rest of my life trying to get some kind of approval from him that he's never going to give?