inner validation Quotes

Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don't need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.

Don't depend on other people as the source of your happiness or for approval.

Recognize that whether you are worthy or not is all a made-up 'story'...Nothing has meaning except for the meaning we give it...There's no one who comes around and stamps you 'worthy' or 'unworthy'. You do that. You make it up. You decide it...If you say you're worthy, you are. If you say you're not worthy, you're not. Either way you will live into your story.

You don't need other people to affirm that you're a valuable person.

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

Never depend on the admiration of others for self-satisfaction. It is a fact of life that other people, even people who love you, will not necessarily agree with your ideas, understand you always, or share your enthusiasms.

You should seek approval from yourself.

Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is something extrinsic.

He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.

I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.

Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

Success is always somebody else's opinion of you; but it doesn't amount to a damn compared to your own opinion of yourself.

It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks about what's "too much" what's "enough" or if you're telling the "right" stories, just do good work.

At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.

The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.

My philosophy in life... is to prove myself to myself and not to others. I tried to teach my children that, that I have to respect myself, to prove to myself that I can do the best I can.

I've never stopped since the day I came off 'X Factor' to look in the mirror and say 'you did it.' It's too much for my tiny little brain to work out.

A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.

The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990

I want to be really special, I want to be really good. It's not enough to be famous for me. Famous is empty so quickly, it's not what people think it is. It's wonderful, but if you're famous and you feel that you're an artist inside and everyone thinks you're just a celebrity, it's really painful.

You don't need to be accepted by everyone else to get reaccepted by the one who made you.