Top 66 Validation Quotes

The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That’s the little girl in me that will never grow up.

When I was a younger actor, I was pretty much solely motivated by validation. I just wanted to be told I was good and handsome and a part of the gang. It was pretty simple animal-social stuff. I don’t care as much about those things anymore.

I think every player wants to be acknowledged for what they have done. I think every player eligible for the Hall Of Fame feels that the ultimate validation is enshrinement.

To be in ‘Vogue’ has to mean something. It’s an endorsement. It’s a validation.

It would be real nice to have some kind of bell or whistle attached to this film – it would give it a longer life. People seem to need that validation to go to a film these days.

You don’t need validation from other people. You’ve gotta find it within yourself and sit in it and roll with it.

Everybody is looking for validation, no matter who you are, and I think that’s a need of the human condition – to look for affection or recognition or validation.

When you see validation for a life’s work and dedication, it’s a beautiful day.

A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn’t work hard for validation.

I believe the readings I do are a validation that there is more to this world than what we can see.

I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.

We just couldn’t seem to get the love from the Nashville awards shows… So Grammys really gave us validation, and so that’s why they’re such a big deal for us.

I totally understand skepticism, and I think it’s so important for me to show validation of my readings.

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don’t need to get anybody’s approval or validation.

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.

When developing intelligence assessments, initial tactical reports often require additional collection and validation.

I have seen ups and downs. When my chips are down, I remind myself of the time when Aamir Khan spoke to me over the phone and praised my work in ‘Dil Dhadakne Do.’ What big a validation that is, someone of Aamir Khan’s stature to be initiating a call with someone like me. It’s a confidence boost!

When we are looking for validation, that will never satisfy us. When we are looking for affection, for love, a little bit of that will be enough to be complete.

As actors, we tend to usually have some issues with self-esteem and some need for validation, and it takes awhile for that fear of not having a job to go away.

Now is a time where there are so many social networks, such need for validation… you don’t have to be a star or a politician to want to have likes or dislikes. Now there is a disease of popularity in the whole society.

I think a lot of actors need validation. If you see truly amazing actors perform, they expose themselves to such an incredible degree. You can really see their pain.

When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don’t let anyone stand in your way. His validation just made it all the more true. I haven’t stopped thanking him since.

College gave me validation: I gained a lot of confidence, just from once or twice saying something in class and the professor saying, ‘Great idea.’ That experience has certainly helped me say to a director, ‘Actually, I think my idea is at least worth talking about.’

I’m secure in who I am. I don’t need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I’m comfortable going against the grain if I need to.

Women are blessed with lots and lots of extra ways to win or lose validation. If you’re a woman, you’ll be judged on your beauty and your wit and how often you smile. You’ll be judged on how much hair you have in some places and not in others.

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

There’s some part of me, as an actor, that likes attention and validation, but on any given day, depending on the style and volume of it, it can be too much.

I don’t live my life seeking validation from people on social media.

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

I don’t need validation from people at all.

I think most models, when they start out, are insecure. And you become the focus of a lot of people’s attention, so outside validation becomes too important.

Models are just mannequins seeking validation at the hands of sleazy fashion people.

I was 19, so validation played a huge role in my taking part in Miss India.

We derive so much of our self-confidence and validation from Instagram. Just imagine one day Instagram gets deleted like all of your friends who you think you have on social media, all these likes and comments just disappear, what are we left with? We have stopped valuing human relationships and contact.

I think I started out because I was desperate for approval and acceptance and praise. Some actors never break away from that. They’re after that validation their whole life.

You’ll always feel lonely if you always need validation. People don’t like to be around those kinds of people.

I love the village in my computer. There’s little validation in the day-to-day life of a writer; sometimes we ache for a connection.

I really feel like social media – it’s like all these tiny stages that you put yourself on. And you come to rely on these likes and favorites, and it’s this applause and this validation that you start to need. Then it’s like you don’t know how to soothe yourself, and I think it’s very pernicious.

I don’t really search for typical or more traditional validation because of the role that I’ve had and understanding what that kind of means in the scope of things.

If somebody sings a song that I wrote, I feel like it’s a nice point of validation for the song, because it shows that the song is able to stand on its own. I like that.

People confuse fame with validation or love. But fame is not the reward. The reward is getting fulfillment out of doing the thing you love.

When I die, I want people to be like, ‘Respect the music.’ I don’t really care if you hate me or like me – what I want badly is the validation and respect of the people.

I don’t need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.

I want validation. I’m not ashamed to say that I need the world to validate me and for people to say, ‘You are what you think you are.’

It’s important that, as women, we tell ourselves we are half of the humanity, and unfortunately or fortunately, we rely too much on other people for our validation.

Well, for me, I don’t need validation from no one to tell me what type of player I am or number to tell me throughout the year what type of player I am. It’s all about your ability to go out there and just compete.

Everything we do in our growing up has been done before. But it needs recognition and validation each time for each one of us – public, private, and secret.

To see yourself, and for others to see you, is a form of validation. I’m interested in that very mysterious and mystical way we relate to each other in the world.

Jughead is one of those characters that takes the opinions of his father really seriously and probably seeks a bit of validation from him.

It really feels good that I am in both the ODI and T20 teams. My first aim is to perform for India. And when that gets appreciated, it is a validation that you have done well.

Run focus groups. Do whatever you need to do to get 8 to 10 people together in a room and put your product in front of them. Ask them how much they would pay for it and whether they would pay for it. It’s really important to get user validation early and often.

I know the money is important, but, actually, the validation of your career that prizes give is what you really want. But the money is fabulous, too.

There was a time when I desperately wanted to be part of a Yash Chopra film, not because he was a great director, but because I was an outsider and I wanted that validation of being accepted in the film industry.

Growing up on set, the director is the person that, as a child, you admire and gives you validation.

I was just putting way too much pressure on myself. I was just trying to get that validation from my dad. It got so bad I remember my high school coach telling him not to show up to games.

Social media has created a digital latticework, but it has also, for some, created abusive commenters, silos, and validation rather than curiosity.

I work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation.