Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

External Validation Quotes

Career DecisionsExternal ValidationSocial PressureSurvivalYouth We're always looking over our shoulders, 'what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one - am I making the right career move?' When you're young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

Anthony Hopkins

Welsh Actor
External ValidationHappiness DependencyInner StrengthSelf Reliance The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

Dale Carnegie

American writer and lecturer
External ValidationGenerational ConcernsSelf-Destruction I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We're in a very self-destructive state where we're addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.
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Drake

AnxietyExternal ValidationInsecurityOverestimationSelf-awareness I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.

Christopher Hitchens

British-American author and journalist