Quotes about Validation
I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we've passed the audition.
— John Lennon
If we are addicted to people's approval, we will always experience pain when that approval is withdrawn--as it always is.
— Joyce Meyer
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
— Malcolm X
Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve the Faith they owe; when earnestly they seek such proof, conclude, they then begin to faile.
— John Milton
If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.
— Bill Johnson
Men are not our problem; it's what we are trying to get from them that messes us up. We use guys like mirrors to see if we're valuable.
— Beth Moore
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
— George Eliot
God's approval is a whole lot easier to get than man's.
— Beth Moore
A man who does not love praise is not a full man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
They'll not blame me. They'll not object to me. They'll not mind what I do, if it's wrong. I'm only Mr. Dick.
— Charles Dickens
Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Most of our addictions [shopping, food, bad relationships] as women flare up when we feel that we are not loved or sought after.
— John Eldredge