Quotes about Validation

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!

You were seen, you were heard and you matter.

So long as you're still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.

We nourish the bodies of our children and friends and employees, but how seldom do we nourish their self-esteem? We provide them with roast beef and potatoes to build energy, but we neglect to give them kind words of appreciation that would sing in their memories for years like the music of the morning stars.

Make the other person feel important — and do it sincerely.

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.

many people who go insane find in insanity a feeling of importance that they were unable to achieve in the world of reality.

Hans Selye, another great psychologist, said, "As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation.

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.

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.

When you seek to define who you are through those relationships, you are actually asking another sinner to be your personal messiah

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.