Ben Bradlee Quotes

I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.

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've always felt a strong urge to prove myself.

...true self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around.

Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.

Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us, that we are seen as unlovable.

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

I do have at home the most ridiculous number of awards for what I have done, which is nice in terms of being patted on the back, yet it does cure you of caring about what other people say about you. Ultimately, you must have your own standard of what is good enough.

My success is not who I am.

I have been in there with all of them and there is nothing left for me to prove.

Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don't feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.

Validation comes to us in two ways: through trials we overcome, and through the words of older men.

I think I don't have as much to prove now.

I don't have anything else to prove.

I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I've gotten to the point where I don't have to do that as much.

It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?

Success isn't measured by the amount of people that watch you unless you allow it to be.

I want to prove myself.

It's always flattering when you get compliments, but it's more of a measure of who you are at the time than anything else.

I have nothing to prove to anyone but myself.

Dance Monkey' showed me that I'm good enough.

I don't need to prove myself through competition anymore.

I am not the type who'd enter the best schools just to prove myself.

I feel great when people say good things about me. But what's important is that I have to show it on the pitch.