Quotes about Validation

You are not free until you have no need to impress anybody.

Live to please God, not people. You have His approval, and that is all you really need!

Succumbing to a lifetime of guilt is just another form of approval addiction. ARE

don't be overly concerned about what other people think of you and your decisions. Most of them are not thinking about you as much as you might imagine that they are anyway.

When you know that God likes you, then you're not worried so much about what everybody else thinks.

Knowing who we are in Christ sets us free from the need to impress others. As long as we know who we are, we don't have to be overly concerned about what others think of us. Once we know who we are and accept ourselves, we no longer have anything to prove. When we have nothing to prove we can relax and be at ease in every situation.

We become addicted to approval when we base our self-worth on how people treat us or on what we believe they think about us.

Even though I have not mastered it, I now have a better sense of what makes us want others to think well of us, and how we can prevent that desire from ruling in our hearts. False Narrative: My Value Is Determined by Your Assessment

What the winner of a finite game wins is a title. A title is the acknowledgment of others that one has been the winner of a particular game. I cannot entitle myself. Titles are theatrical, requiring an audience to bestow and respect them.

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them." "Yes," said Harriet, "but I am one of them. I disconcert myself very much. I never know what I do feel." "I don't think that matters, provided one doesn't try to persuade one's self into appropriate feelings.

It's one thing to be supported in your career and another thing for your peers to embrace you and say, 'We believe in you.'

The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion