These validation quotes will inspire you. Validation is the action of checking or proving the validity or accuracy of something or the action of making or declaring something legally or officially acceptable.
Validation recognition or affirmation that a person or their feelings or opinions are valid or worthwhile.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging validation quotes, validation sayings, and validation proverbs.
Famous Validation Quotes
- “The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.” ~ Paul Ricoeur
- “A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn’t work hard for validation.” ~ Ryne Sandberg
- “If self-validation were our most significant societal measure – we would give trophies to ourselves.” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
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“When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don’t let anyone stand in your way. His validation just made it all the more true. I haven’t stopped thanking him since.” ~ Marlee Matlin
- “I’m secure in who I am. I don’t need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I’m comfortable going against the grain if I need to.” ~ J. C. Watts
- “I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.” ~ John Edward
- “Look inside, without anyone else’s validation understand that you are valuable, talented, unique, and worthy.” ~ Joe Sacco
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“What makes people weak? Their need for validation and recognition, their need to feel important. Don’t get caught in this trap.” ~ Paulo Coelho
- “Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.” ~ Bill Crawford
- “I’ve talked to nearly 30,000, people on this show, and all 30,000, had one thing in common: They all wanted validation…I would tell you that every single person you will ever meet shares that common desire.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “Before you look for validation in others, try and find it in yourself” ~ Greg Behrendt
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“You’re learning to be nourished by the love you give, not by the validation offered in response to your giving.” ~ Matthew Kahn
- “Know that God has a plan for your life. Turn your life over to him every day. Stop looking outside yourself for validation and approval-you’re letting other people define your happiness. Instead of trying so hard to manipulate life, take care of yourself on the inside. Then all those other attributes you’re so desperately seeking will find you eventually.” ~ Trisha , Outside validation quotes
- “Don’t seek approval. This may be the toughest suggestion for you to follow — and the most important. Whether you’te a teenager seeking approval from your peers, a middle-aged parent seeking the approval of your kids, or a man or woman seeking the approval of a partner, it all amounts to the same thing. You’re giving your personal power away every time you seek validation from someone else for who you are.” ~ T. J. MacGregor
- “You may occasionally be hurt by the sort of cavalier cruelty of commentary if you go into online forums, so there’s definitely a maturity about not seeking validation from everyone, every single time.” ~ Guillermo del Toro
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“As Buddha points out, you should not rely on the opinions of others for validation of your internal progression.” ~ Frederick Lenz
- “Release old concepts and energies that keep you in self-punishment patterns. Release old stories and create from a place of love and self-validation. You are worth it!” ~ Gautama Buddha
- “Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth. They are looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love, while they have a treasure within that not only includes all those things but is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
- “Some seek fame cause they need validation,
Some say hating is confused admiration.” ~ Nas -
“I think the thing that people do wrong today is that they pray for external validation.” ~ T. D. Jakes
- “Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it’s for failure.” ~ Steven Pressfield
- “Women have to learn where their true source of validation is.” ~ Maureen Murdock
- “It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health.” ~ Erich Fromm
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“We have to recognize that the validation of identity comes through relationships we have and what we produce.” ~ Eva Cox
- “A child who’s been injured by a parent waits her whole life for some acknowledgment of the wrong that’s been done, some validation from him that her pain is real, that he’s sorry and will make amends. The child will wait forever, unable to move forward, unable to forgive, without someone to acknowledge the past. In that powerlessness comes a terrible rage.” ~ Lisa Unger
- “Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love – you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.” ~ Eckhart Tolle , Stop eeking validation quotes
- “The number one way a man can succeed in fulfilling a woman’s primary love needs is through communication. By learning to listen to a woman’s feelings, a man can effectively shower a woman with caring, understanding, respect, devotion, validation, and reassurance.” ~ John Gray
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“If you believe you are plenty, you will validate that belief and create plenty of abundance.” ~ T. Harv Eker
- “The ability to know that your perceptions are accurate has to happen without others’ validation. Intuition is not the result of diet, rituals, or wind chimes. It’s the natural consequence of having self-esteem, the greatest power you can have. With self-esteem, your life can broaden into an adventure because you can know in your gut that you can handle the unknown. And you can handle helping others without fear, which is true liberation.” ~ Caroline Myss
- “I believe that the major operating ethic in American society right now, the most universal want and need is to be on TV. I’ve been on TV. I could be on TV all the time if I wanted to. But most people will never get on TV. It has to be a real breakthrough for them. And trouble is, people will do almost anything to get on it. You know, confess to crimes they haven’t committed. You don’t exist unless you’re on TV. Yeah, it’s a validation process.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson
- “You do learn things and one of them is that happiness has nothing to do with validation from other people, the important thing is being happy with yourself … finding something that is important to you and sticking with it no matter what anyone says. The truth is you’ve got to really be tough because there are all kinds of forces that are always trying to get you to do things their way … trying to tell you that you are throwing your life away if you don’t follow their advice.” ~ Kurt Cobain
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“Don’t wait on approval, validation and likes from others – always give yourself the highest of approval ratings and work from there. Hold your head up and be fabulous no matter what!” ~ Jody Watley
- “I work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation.” ~ Denzel Washington
- “Amazingly, 85 percent of prescribed standard medical treatments across the board lack scientific validation, according to the New York Times. Richard Smith, editor of the British Medical Journal, suggests that this is partly because only one percent of the articles in medical journals are scientifically sound, and partly because many treatments have never been assessed at all.” ~ Kenny Ausubel
- “What I need to do is have a great positive attitude and a great work ethic. Those two things validate me. Yes, it’s important that I have good numbers, and I’m well-respected as a player. But I think it’s more important that I’m respected as a man.” ~ David Robinson
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“The more validation I need, the less discernment I have.” ~ Kurt Hanks
- “Knowledge is organized data. For it to be shelved as human knowledge it’s got to be predictable, repeatable, all the basics of scientific validation have to be there.” ~ Greg Graffin
- “It’s so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it’s really found within and through meaningful connections with other people.” ~ Geoffrey S. Fletcher
- “I think we all need to be inside of us for 3 whole days, thinking about how we can love ourselves more, protect ourselves more, live life with more passion and look not outwards for validation but inwards.” ~ Lady Gaga
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“An artist doesn’t necesetharily have to get acclaim from the outside. Maybe it is much better if he can get validation from within.” ~ Aaron Rose
- “I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.” ~ Tullian Tchividjian
- “People can think whatever they like. I don’t desire their validation.” ~ Tahereh Mafi
- “The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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“That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside. There is no shade in that beauty.” ~ Lupita Nyong’o
- “One’s own independent judgment is the means by which one must choose one’s actions, but it is not a moral criterion nor a moral validation; only reference to a demonstrable principle can validate one’s choices.” ~ Ayn Rand
- “Make sure your decision to have a child is based on the need to share your life completely with another little human being and not because of some personal need for validation as a woman.” ~ Iman Abdul Majid
- “I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content beyond what you might find in a PG-rated movie – expressions of who likes whom, holding hands, and perhaps the occasional kiss. The idea that we should treat sexual orientation itself as an adults-only topic, however, is absurd. Non-heterosexual children exist. To pretend they do not, to fail to recognize that they have needs for support and validation like any child, would be bad teaching, bad writing, and bad citizenship.” ~ Rick Riordan
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“If you get validation from outside, then suddenly everything you do at home is justified.” ~ Anurag Kashyap
- “I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.” ~ Linton Kwesi Johnson
- “Models are just mannequins seeking validation at the hands of sleazy fashion people.” ~ Amber Heard
- “Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such “transcending” analysis of the facts in the light of their arrested and denied possibilities, pertains to the very structure of social theory.” ~ Herbert Marcuse
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“And if you ever need self-validation, Just meet me in the alley by the railway station” ~ Steven Morrissey
- “Failure is all a matter of perspective. Think of all the people you admire. I guarantee you they all failed at one time or another. The key is to recognize setbacks for what they really are-entry points for learning, not validation that you aren’t good enough. After a disappointment analyze your actions, get feedback from friends, and take inventory of what you could do better next time. This type of self-reflection and improvement will ultimately make success inevitable.” ~ Jillian Michaels
- “When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.” ~ Shakti Gawain
- “Pure generosity emerges when we give without the need for our offering to be received in a certain way. That’s why the best kind of generosity comes from inner abundance, rather than from feeling deficient and hollow, starved for validation.” ~ Sharon Salzberg
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“I don’t need to get any validation by someone else who sits next to me in first class. If you think a seat in first class makes you a star, then you’re not one.” ~ Curtis Jackson
- “This might sound masochistic or narcissistic‚ I don’t know‚ but when I’m not playing the game‚ the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness‚ in a lot of ways‚ when I’m not playing.” ~ Abby Wambach
- “We all exist in similar systems that mirror and reproduce the same American culture for the most part. What Oscar Wilde said about the lucky author who has a non-literary day job no longer holds, if it ever did. Artists seek validation as much as they seek money. The creation and invention of culture and canon is where most of the trouble lies.” ~ Fady Joudah
- “Common sense … has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively. It seems to me that one of the principal criteria to be applied to successful science is that its results are almost always obvious retrospectively; unfortunately, they seldom are prospectively. Common sense provides a kind of ultimate validation after science has completed its work; it seldom anticipates what science is going to discover.” ~ Russell L. Ackoff
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“If somebody sings a song that I wrote, I feel like its a nice point of validation for the song, because it shows that the song is able to stand on its own. I like that.” ~ Jesse Harris
- “The big downside to the global village that the Internet has created is that nothing has time to grow out of the public gaze and, even more dangerous, whatever your personal interests might be, there will always be someone somewhere to provide validation and encouragement.” ~ Derek Ridgers
- “You’re treated as though you’re just a piece of meat, and you’re there for consumption by men. I feel like the common thing is men feeling entitled to treat you how they want to treat you. You never feel as though you have a right to the space. And so that’s the theme behind most of the posters – “I’m not outside for your entertainment” and “I’m not seeking your validation.”” ~ Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
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“I think the most attractive thing for me when I meet a guy is confidence and him being comfortable in his own skin. I like someone who doesn’t need approval or validation.” ~ Minka Kelly
- “The world needs women who stop asking for permission from the principal. Permission to live their lives as they deeply know they often should. I think we still look to authority figures for validation, recognition, permission.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
- “When creativity has become your habit; when you’ve learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you’re on the way to an artist’s ultimate goal; the achievement of mastery.” ~ Twyla Tharp
Validation is an act, process, or instance of validating.
