External Approval Quotes

Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it's a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.

Being the most popular, I don't know; I don't get into people patting you on the back.

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

Believe me, happiness is not ticking off Walter Cronkite.

If you get validation from outside, then suddenly everything you do at home is justified.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

Men are not our problem; it's what we are trying to get from them that messes us up. We use guys like mirrors to see if we're valuable.

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

It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?

Why do people need awards? Don't you know your value and your worth? I don't need anybody's award or acceptance.

Throughout a competitive career, you can certainly lose yourself trying to please the judges.

What I found fascinating for me was, I've never gotten so much approval and accolades and warmth and congratulations as when I had a guy on my arm that people thought I was going to marry. It was amazing. I mean, nobody congratulated me that hard when I had my three children.

Our society is all about focusing on the externals, "These people like me, I'm successful because of these people, they view me as being good" and we need to take that vision and instead of expanding it outwards we need to look inside ourselves.

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!

When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.

Some small part of what the artist does is for approval of others.

When we have sold our identity to the judges of this world, we are bound to become restless, because of a growing need for affirmation and praise.

A lot of people that I know are bugged with the idea that they have got to have an audience, or they have got to be liked. I think the more that you fall into that trap it makes your own life harder to come to terms with, because an audience appreciation is only going to be periodic at the best of times.

The power that you have as a young woman, unless you have great self-esteem, is largely based on how the rest of the world reacts to you. And so it's kind of a superficial confidence that you have, you know?

Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.

No need to prove anything - not in England or in Belgium.

The more you succeed, the more you want people to love your efforts.

Certification from one source or another seems to be the most important thing to people all over the world. A piece of paper from a school that says you're smart, a pat on the head from your parents that says you're good or some reinforcement from your peers that makes you think what you're doing is worthwhile. People are just waiting around to get certified.

If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.

What really matters to me is what my peers think.