Tullian Tchividjian Quotes

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.

As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.

I don't have anything else to prove.

My deepest challenge has been an internal one. It's allowing success to take over by focusing on how many Twitter followers I have or what people are saying about me online, or just feeling like no matter how much success I get, it's not enough.

You don't realize you're vying for the approval of everyone so much until being yourself is not approved of.

My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.

Needing approval is like saying 'your view of me is more important than my own opinion of myself'.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

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.

If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.

For people to come to you and say, 'Would you like to be a part of our show?' after years of 'Please tell me I'm good enough,'... I can't tell you how wonderful it feels.

You deserve love and you'll get it.

My literary success meant nothing to me.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.

I don't have a strong sense of self-worth unless I'm doing something.

It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it.

Everybody is looking for validation, no matter who you are, and I think that's a need of the human condition - to look for affection or recognition or validation.

I want you to like me, but I don't care if you don't.

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.

Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.

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

Awards bolster your confidence in wonderful ways. But they aren't the world.