Seeking Validation Quotes

They keep telling me don't save you. If I ignore all that advice and something isn't right then who will I complain to?

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.

Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.

I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.

Being 36 years old changes you a lot, and so does eight years away from career, fame, needing attention, needing to be loved by strangers on some level. I was loving anonymity. I was loving the fact that I could meet a girl who didn't know who I was. I enjoyed it very much, I have to say.

Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.

If anything, I want to please people too much.

Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism.

I just want everyone out there to know that I'm super-awesome and a great guy and really cool to talk to and that I appreciate all the support.

He was as needy as she was. Alvin Finch only wanted to be needed. Loved. And absent of either, he resorted to deflecting his pain by killing. Just like a teenager might resort to deflecting the pain of rejection by cutting. People did a lot of crazy things to be wanted.

I'm still at the age where I'm constantly seeking approval of people I have respect for.

Many times people come to me to be reassured. They ask, they say, 'I'm feeling very happy and blissful. What do you say?' What is the need to say anything? The very need shows that the happiness is unreal and imaginary.

I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the use of seeing it, and working, and burning oneself for an impossible vision? A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry

We ask advice, but we mean approbation.

The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.

By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.

A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.

Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin.

Our parents will maybe sometimes when they are upset with us and we have been troublesome say something like "Mommy really doesn't like a naughty child." And we think that we have to earn the approval, earn the love of our parents. And then we transfer it to God and think we have to earn... We don't have to earn it! God loves us.

We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?

You want your parents to say, "Hey, I'm proud of you." When you don't hear that, you learn to compensate. You say, "Hell, I don't need their approval. If I get my music right, I'll have everyone else's approval." I didn't understand it then, but I now know that's what happened to me.

My dad said I did the right thing. I hope I did, but it's hard to tell sometimes.

Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?

Some people say the things I do are annoying because I'm intentionally trying too hard to be relatable, but I'm really not.