Geoffrey S. Fletcher Quotes

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.

The greatest lesson I have learned in life is that I am enough simply because I have been given life. Growing up, I constantly found myself trying to please others because I wanted to be included and validated. I expended myself completely.

I worked hard to be accepted by the fashion community in ways beyond my physical appearance. In no time, though, I found myself surrendering to the industry's approval process. I felt like I needed validation from everyone. As a result, I lost sight of myself and what it meant to be happy, what it meant to be successful.

The truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best.

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 didn't need the belt to validate me.

I understand now that my soul is my power, not perfection or my ego. I continue to teach this to my children, despite their glamorous careers. If we can maintain our core values, the exteriors take second place and become a gift, a source of gratitude.

I prefer to focus on who I am as a person and what I stand for. We all want to look good, but I find it more rewarding to work on feeling good and going a bit deeper beneath the surface.

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

I wish for myself as an adult that I cared less what people thought of me, especially people who don't know me.

You don't need to be accepted by everyone else to get reaccepted by the one who made you.

I think a lot of young teenagers try to get esteem from accolades from other people, or boys, and what you learn as you get older is that you have to create that within yourself.

Before you look for validation in others, try and find it in yourself

Don't wait on approval, validation and likes from others - always give yourself the highest of approval ratings and work from there. Hold your head up and be fabulous no matter what!

Once you know who you really are, being is enough. You feel neither superior to anyone nor inferior to anyone and you have no need for approval because you've awakened to your own infinite worth.

I made the mistake of thinking that external accomplishments would bring me peace. I thought it was about the job or a book or making a name for myself.

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.

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.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

You are absolutely enough the way you are.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

No one is perfect... absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace.