Validation Quotes

“The only way you can teach is by validation.”
― Meir Ezra

“The purpose of validating yourself is to enable you to validate others.”
― Meir Ezra

“Only once you can validate yourself, you will be able to validate others.”
― Meir Ezra

“Correct and improve by validation alone.”
― Meir Ezra

“I am composing my own music. It is mine, from my hand alone. I wrote it for myself and I wanted to share it with you. Do you see me?”
― Marie Lu, The Kingdom of Back

“It is an extremely strong desire in a fool to be regarded as cool.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Never find fault, always validate”
― Meir Ezra

“I write - and read - to assure myself that other people have felt what I'm feeling too, that it isn't just me, that this is real, and valid, and true.”
― Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

“Give it to yourself. Validate yourself. Affirm yourself. Yes, it’s nice to get it from others, but we must build within ourselves the ability to self-affirm.”
― Josh Hatcher

“A stark sense of isolation encloses anyone who looks outward for validation.”
― Gina Barreca

“Greatness is achieved when you feel you have it. The validation is only yours to give, no one else’s.”
― Saim .A. Cheeda

“Your validation doesn't move my needle.”
― Lebo Grand

“You would always find people to validate your feelings; good and bad likewise.
Whom do we then depend on for our most important decisions ?
Well, depends on which direction you want to go.”
― Geetika Garg

“Some people do not have a problem with them continuing to like or love you, as long as you continue to like or love them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I didn't bare my feelings so you could explain why they were wrong. I wanted your support.”
― K.M. Szpara, Docile

“It is not truth that is validated by a proof, but one’s understanding of it.”
― Raheel Farooq, Why I Am a Muslim: And a Christian and a Jew

“You know who loves you by the gifts they bring you. The gifts don’t have to cost a lot, they just need to reflect a part of you and of the other person.”
― Ernesto Quiñonez, Taína

“Nu ar trebui să ne bazăm pe validările celorlalți mereu, este necesar să ne asumăm și noi deciziile pe care le luăm și acțiunile pe care le facem, fără să ne comportăm ca niște prințese nesigure, inocente, mereu aflate în căutarea atenției celorlalți.
Pentru că nu e realist și nici fezabil să trăim așa.”
― Andrei Cristian, Epoca îndreptățirii

“Finding communities that validate and share your anger creates powerful opportunities for collective social action.”
― Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

“Meanwhile, the net celebrates kids whose antics are the most sensationalist and, as a result, often reckless and self-destructive. An entire genre of YouTube video known as Epic Fail features amateur footage of wipeouts and other, well, epic failures. "FAIL Blog," part of The Daily What media empire, solicits fail videos from users and features both extreme sports stunts gone awry along with more random humiliations—like the guy who tried to shoplift an electric guitar by shoving it down his pants. Extreme sports clips are competing on the same sensationalist scale and result in popular classics such as "tire off the roof nut shot" and "insane bike crash into sign." Daring quickly overtakes what used to be skill. In "planking" photos and videos, participants seek to stay frozen in a horizontal plank position as they balance on a flagpole, over a cliff, or on top of a sleeping tiger. For "choking" videos, young people strangle one another to the point of collapse and, sometimes, death.”
― Douglas Rushkoff, Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

“No one's validation should be your inspiration!

Got my Brooklyn armor on and always living my truth! Today, use whatever empowers you, whether it be a prayer, your favorite quote, an article of clothing, a picture, or the vision of your goal alive in your mind... make THAT the inspiration you need to conquer another day!”
― Liz Faublas

“If God believes in you, then it doesn’t matter if anyone else does. And God has never not believed in you.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I am not a licensed anything because that usually means that you're a useless piece of shit.”
― Dmitry Dyatlov

“Stop revolving between attribution, validation and attention. Start settling into compassion.”
― Nitya Prakash

“The best material model for a cat is another, or preferably the same cat.”
― Arturo Rosenblath and Norbert Wiener

“Each of our experiences, feelings and views are unique based on countless factors, yet no less valid than those of others. Just because you're not a parent doesn't mean you have no rights to have a view on parenting. Or that you can’t imagine the struggles of parenting within your own mind. Just because you’re born poor doesn’t mean you can’t imagine wealth. If your destiny is such that you’re born into privilege, it doesn’t mean you can’t by free-will have the willingness to help others or imagine their pain. Just because you weren’t in the Marine Corp doesn’t mean you can’t imagine the fear some must face. Just because you are not in a concentration camp doesn’t mean you can’t feel or fight for those who are. Just because you didn’t grow up abused doesn’t mean you can’t feel compassion for those who did. Just because you’re a child doesn’t mean you can’t imagine being a grown-up and just because you’re a grown-up doesn’t mean you can’t imagine being a child. If that were the case, how would any of us ever tap into our compassion? Whatever your circumstances, everyone is 100% entirely entitled to have a view, entitled to help make change happen if it betters the world and no matter what it doesn’t make you less valid or less important just because you can’t control how you were born into this world. That which is out of our hands is out of our hands. While that which lies in our capacity for compassion and imagination, is ours to utilize in the best way we know how to make the world a better place wherever and with whatever cause we choose to take on. We all deserve dignity and respect.”
― Julieanne O'Connor

“The poison of loneliness and the gnawing envy of the unlonely had gone out of him, and his person was clean and sweet, and he knew it was. He dredged up an old hatred to test himself, and he found the hatred gone. He wanted to serve his father, to give him some great gift, to perform some huge good task in honor of his father.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Love is a matter resonating from deep inside the heart.
It’s the core of our being and should not be materialized.”
― Joseph S. Spence Sr.

“You are enough”
― Bobby Temps

“We most fondly remember those who truly see us for who we are. Their affirmation of our true being are often etched in our memory as life-changing moments. Imagine the world we might live in if more of us aimed to be that memorable.”
― Anthon St. Maarten