Ronda Rousey Quotes

Self worth cannot be verfied by others

It doesn't mean a thing when others tell you you're good. You have to feel it yourself.

Individuals with a good self esteem can accept or reject the opinions of others, but never depend on them for their sense of worthiness.

It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.

I think the thing that people do wrong today is that they pray for external validation.

Before, I thought I was actually fighting for my own self-worth; that is why I so desperately wanted people to like me. I thought their liking me was a comment on me, but it was a comment on them.

Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it's a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.

What good is any feeling we may have about ourselves, if it only lasts as long as others agree to it?

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

I wish I didn't have to validate myself by reading reviews.

Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future!

We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.

As for worrying about what other people might think - forget it. They aren't concerned about yours. They're too busy worrying about what you and other people think of theirs.

A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.

Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love.

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

I've been in situations where I've said to young people: "You're so personable, you're so articulate, you're clearly so bright, you're so good-looking - feel better about yourself!" But if at the core if you don't, all those words mean nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Real freedom isn't subject to how others estimate our value; it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering how others measure their lives.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

Our society is all about focusing on the externals, "These people like me, I'm successful because of these people, they view me as being good" and we need to take that vision and instead of expanding it outwards we need to look inside ourselves.

If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.

Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.