Warren Buffett Quotes

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.

I don't like to do something just to prove I can do it.

I think one thing I've learned over the years is just that you're not going to ever please everyone, and the most important person to please is yourself.

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

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

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 can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

I've been surrounded by a lot of people who felt that external success would result in them feeling good about themselves. But it just seems extremely unfulfilling to me.

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

Who cares if somebody dances better? Doing my very best is rewarding internally.

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.

I'm a strange person - I don't really get rewards out of how many hits I have on YouTube. I love it, and I'm grateful, and it's important to me. But does it equal peace within me? No, it doesn't.

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 have nothing to prove to anyone but myself.

I just constantly tell myself that I should be the only one to define my worth and what I'm capable of and how I perceive myself. And that I should never source that worth from other people, especially strangers on social media. They don't know who I am, the length of my journey, who I am as a person.

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.

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

Nothing can be so bad as to be displeased with one's self.

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

You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

I just never really gave myself any credit. And because of that, nobody else did either. You mirror what the world mirrors to you.

You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.