Denis Waitley Quotes

I don't need to be on top to know I'm worth it

I don't feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody.

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

I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.

I don't feel that I have to prove anything to anyone as far as what I've done in fighting.

What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being independent of the good opinions of other people.

I know what I can do so it doesn't bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation.

I'm not playing to prove anything to anybody.

Unlike a lot of people, I don't need the affirmation or anything.

I don't have to prove anything.

I've changed. I'm not worried about what people think, because I think people think what they want to think anyway.

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

The only place you can really find the confidence and the love for yourself is within you, so that has to be what carries you: not all of these external things.

I have nothing to prove to anybody.

I don't need to be validated by anybody else; I don't need to be accepted or approved of for my happiness.

I have nothing to prove to anyone.

I've got nothing to prove to anyone.

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.

The pain cleared my vision, and once it was taken away, I realized just how much I'd been relying on the endorsement of others to make me feel like I mattered.

Self worth cannot be verfied by others

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

Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.

You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

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.