Need for Validation Quotes

She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it was because she was a star, not just because of her herself, and she always had to be reassured.

I always seek people's approval and I'm always never good enough.

I need an audience way more than an audience needs me.

I don't have that much of an ego where it's like "How dare you, you can't do something without me."

I am very much in the instant-gratification camp. I am too much of an actor not to be. I am used to doing my work and having someone comment immediately. So I think that I'm a little hooked on that gratification structure.

As far as I'm concerned, everything bad that happens in the world stems from the same place, they're people who don't feel important.

I am an approval junkie.

You realise that there's nothing more endearing than people who are desperately trying to be liked or trying to be the hero, you know? Who also probably just need a hug or want to impress their dad?

You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.

I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.

I was pretty much tap dancing for attention from a very early age.

Anna was saying to herself: why do I always have this awful need to make other people see things as I do? It's childish, why should they? What it amounts to is that I'm scared of being alone in what I feel.

I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly.

It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

I'm a yes person. I'm too concerned with trying to make too many people happy.

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

I've always gravitated toward men who sort of kind of eclipsed me in some way. And I think that it's because I have this need to be better.

One reason some people are long-winded is because they're trying to impress their conversational counterpart with how smart they are, often because they don't actually feel that way underneath. If this is the case for you, realize that continuing to talk will only cause the other person to be less impressed.

I got to be constantly reassured that somebody loves me.

I can't bear not to be liked, and I've always been a people pleaser.

Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.

You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you, and you don't want them to look at you in a negative light. So you do things to make them proud and accept you.