Quotes about Affirmation

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. Votes: 6

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. Votes: 4

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. Votes: 4

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. Votes: 4

But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented. Votes: 4

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. Votes: 4

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation. Votes: 4

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.' Votes: 4

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen. Votes: 4

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level. Votes: 4

Affirmation plus action equals miracles. Votes: 3

Little by little, one travels far Votes: 3

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. Votes: 3

I am the joy of life expressing and receiving in perfect rhythm. Votes: 3

There is a line between a definite maybe and an indefinite yes. Votes: 3

An affirmation opens the door. It's a beginning point on the path to change. Votes: 3

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought. Votes: 3

Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth. Votes: 3

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted. Votes: 3

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false. Votes: 3

I give myself permission to be all that I can be, and I deserve the very best in life. Votes: 3

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest. Votes: 3

Affirmation statements are going beyond the reality of the present into the creation of the future through the words you use in the now. Votes: 3

Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life. Votes: 3

Affirmation literally means to validate or confirm. So when we think a thought over and over again, we are validating or confirming it as the truth. Votes: 3

Affirmations are like seed planted in soil. Poor soil, poor growth. Rich soil, abundant growth. The more you choose to think thoughts that make you feel good, the quicker the affirmations work. Votes: 3

Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase and find that it helps you, that is a valid affirmation. Votes: 3

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. Votes: 3

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires. Votes: 3

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will. Votes: 3

An affirmation is simply a positive declaration of something you believe to be true or something you expect to become true and desire to live by. Affirmations transform your thinking, your attitudes, and finally, your behavior. Their impact on attitudes and behavior help to produce the results you desire. Votes: 3

I'm an artist; affirmation is like catnip to me. Votes: 1

To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer. Votes: 1

Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life. Votes: 1

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace. Votes: 1

I've always looked for my affirmation through my peers, the people I race against, and within my team. Votes: 1

If you want your dream more than you have to have people's affirmation, that's how you break through your border bullies. Votes: 1

I know what it's like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing. Votes: 1

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. Votes: 1

Food sovereignty is an affirmation of who we are as indigenous peoples and a way, one of the most surefooted ways, to restore our relationship with the world around us. Votes: 1

Christianity and Judaism are united above all in their common affirmation and implementation of the moral teaching of the Hebrew Bible, or 'Old Testament,' and the traditions of interpretation of that teaching. Votes: 1

It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through. Votes: 1

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences. Votes: 1

Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is not important for his body, ego, or personality. His constant affirmation of ego-consciousness is the source of all his problems. Votes: 1

Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come. Votes: 1

The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they'll prove it to you every single day. Votes: 1

A home should be an intimate autobiography of the things that you like. One of the things I'm so keen on expressing is that, if you don't do it for yourself, if you're always seeking affirmation from outside, you'll never have a home. It'll just be a house. Votes: 1

However much some journalists may criticize me, I know that I look, feel, and behave several decades younger than my actual age, and much of that is because I believe you are what you think you are. This is called positive affirmation, and it's a really strong tool. Votes: 1

Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements. Votes: 1

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets! Votes: 1

He wanted AFFIRMATION rather than INFORMATION. Votes: 0

Fear is an affirmation of your growth. Votes: 0

Man lives more by affirmation than by bread. Votes: 0

An attitude of gratitude is life's most powerful affirmation Votes: 0

Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation. Votes: 0

The Duke and Swing represent affirmation in the face of adversity. Votes: 0

...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread. Votes: 0

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence. Votes: 0

I am a moment illuminating eternity....I am affirmation...I am ecstasy. Votes: 0

An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so. Votes: 0

Unlike a lot of people, I don't need the affirmation or anything. Votes: 0

Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who we are. Votes: 0

Develop an affirmation today, and start getting instant confirmation in all works of like. Votes: 0

The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy. Votes: 0

People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause. Votes: 0

Self-affirmation cannot be found in love; it is a prior condition of genuine love. Votes: 0

It's a great affirmation of the possibility of overcoming conflict through reason and good will. Votes: 0

Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. Votes: 0

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation. Votes: 0

A prayer and positive affirmation are the keys for a divine intervention in any situation. Votes: 0

Negative self-talk and negative affirmation can keep you anchored in old thought patterns and identities. Votes: 0

For everyone, whatever his state--single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love. Votes: 0

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity. Votes: 0

When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments. Votes: 0

The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations. Votes: 0

A baby nursing at a mother's breast... is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature. Votes: 0

'If only' is the excuse of the loser; 'I can' is the affirmation of the winner. Votes: 0

The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation. Votes: 0

This isn't romance. This isn't a declaration of love or affirmation of friendship. This is something more. Votes: 0

The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love. Votes: 0

It would not be necessary to make an affirmation more than once if one had perfect faith. Votes: 0

Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made. Votes: 0

There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry. Votes: 0

Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence. Votes: 0

Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain. Votes: 0

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor. Votes: 0

If you're depressed and called Morgan spend the first half of the day in Germany for some positive affirmation. Votes: 0

WHAT A TIRING WAY TO LIVE, WHEN YOUR SELF-WORTH IS CONSTANTLY RELYING ON THE AFFIRMATION AND APPROVAL OF OTHERS. Votes: 0

There is nothing more profoundly serious than real comedy, which is an affirmation of human communion, redemption and grace. Votes: 0

The minute you say "I can't", it is another wrong affirmation to your subconscious that you choose to lose. Votes: 0

A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional. Votes: 0

Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing? Votes: 0

More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question. Votes: 0

Judgment is affirmation with the intention to thereby affirm competently enough, and indeed aptly. That distinguishes judgments from mere guesses. Votes: 0

It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love. Votes: 0

The drop in pending home sales is an affirmation that we are experiencing a modest slowing in the housing sector. Votes: 0

My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement. Votes: 0

Here is an affirmation for today: I feel passionately about my life, and this passion fills me with excitement and energy! Votes: 0

Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations -in contrast to depending on affirmation from others. Votes: 0

There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours Votes: 0

Have you thought that your willingness to forgive is really your affirmation of the power of God to do you good? Votes: 0

The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt. Votes: 0

The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe . Votes: 0

I know not what you mean by God; the word God is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation. Votes: 0

Now in these troubled times, even more than ever, we need an affirmation that there is goodness and beauty in the world. Votes: 0

Admittance into the true church of Christ is based on regeneration, not merely on an affirmation of a creed or doctrine. The Votes: 0

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. Votes: 0

Islam united all heresies persecuted in Byzantine Empire and synthesised them well into a conseffion that later became a symbol of Arab self-affirmation. Votes: 0

That which distinguishes the new thought from the old is not a denial of this Divine Reality, but an affirmation of its immediate availability. Votes: 0

Every thought we think and every word we speak is an affirmation of what we believe about life and it's the same with magnetism. Votes: 0

Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society. Votes: 0

Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man's ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his own problems. Votes: 0

We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside. Votes: 0

One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it. Votes: 0

Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity. Votes: 0

In order to qualify as a judgment, an affirmation must aim at getting it right aptly, through competence, and not just through a lucky guess. Votes: 0

In Divine unity and the affirmation of it, Divine beauty and dominical perfection become apparent. If there was no unity, that pre-eternal treasury would remain hidden. Votes: 0

Faith is a state of mind which may be induced, or created, by affirmation or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind, through the principle of auto-suggestion . Votes: 0

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.] Votes: 0

What we need are poems that interrogate the world of pronouns, open up possibilities of language and life; forms of politics that support and encourage self-affirmation. Votes: 0

An affirmation to say everyday: The healing power of God is working in me right now. Eveyr day I get better and better in every way. Votes: 0

I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living. Votes: 0

A painting of any quality is always going to have nerdy energy, an affirmation behind it. It's gonna be like a kid playing a video game. Votes: 0

Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Affirming others isn't 'flattering' them-it's when you genuinely and consistently acknowledge their efforts and accomplishments, both large and small. Make affirmation a habit and watch what happens! Votes: 0

A tattoo is an affirmation: that this body is yours to have and to enjoy while you're here. Nobody else can control what you do with it. Votes: 0

We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him. Votes: 0

People crave encouragement, and sometimes the greatest encouragement is the writing of words that endure. Perhaps you can pen a note of affirmation and approval to someone today. Votes: 0

Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation. Votes: 0

Feminism is a transformational force, an individual and social force. It is a way of looking at the world-a questioning of power/domination issues, an affirmation of women's energy. Votes: 0

I'm not turned away from the church through anger, although I have criticisms of it. It's through finding affirmation of life and illumination of life through creativity and art. Votes: 0

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other Votes: 0

In effective personal leadership, visualization and affirmation techniques emerge naturally out of a foundation of well thought through purposes and principles that become the center of a person's life. Votes: 0

The lecturer points to Dietrich Bonhoeffer's decision to get engaged while in prison as his "positive statement that life will go on," his affirmation of the power of love. Votes: 0

Being 'one flesh' in marriage means that the relationship is not the source of security, affirmation, control, or value. Those issues of identity need to be rooted in Christ. Votes: 0

Our every thought, image or affirmation is a prayer. Therefore, if everything you think, feel, say or do is a form of prayer, then make it uplifted and exalted. Votes: 0

To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce. Votes: 0

Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be an affirmation of God. Votes: 0

A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess. Votes: 0

Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively." Votes: 0

Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively. Votes: 0

People don't want novelty - they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds blown. There is an insatiable appetite for affirmation. Votes: 0

Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not. Votes: 0

Every thought and every word you speak is an affirmation. So why not choose to use only positive affirmations to create an exceptional life? I know you can do it! Votes: 0

I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life. Votes: 0

Real greatness is often hidden, humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. We must have strong self-confidence combined with deep humility. Votes: 0

The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens. Votes: 0

Just to say "Well, God is dead" in one breath is to say, in another, that nothing means anything. This is the moment of nihilism. Nihilism is the affirmation of meaninglessness. Votes: 0

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth. Votes: 0

It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation. Votes: 0

A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe .. Votes: 0

There is a certain mysticism in the Christian's affirmation of the physical universe. There is a confidence that whatever is discovered conforms with Jesus Christ and is a manifestation of His will. Votes: 0

Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and more radical form. It is the perfect form of self-affirmation. Votes: 0

I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a burnt out candle." Votes: 0

Let a prayer speak the wishing of your heart. AFFIRMATION: Anchoring my soul by the immense power of my heart, acknowledging the void within, and may it be full-filled and so BE it! Votes: 0

Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities. Votes: 0

I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception. Votes: 0

Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom. Votes: 0

I don’t want to be an anti, against anybody. I simply want to be the builder of a great affirmation: the affirmation of God,who loves us and who wants to save us. Votes: 0

Reading is actually plunging into one's own identity and, one hopes, emerging stronger than before. You see, unconsciously, we are seeking to find an affirmation to our own world perception and set of values. Votes: 0

What has to be given up is not the I, but that drive for self-affirmation which impels man to flee from the unreliable, unsolid, unlasting, unpredictable, dangerous world of relation into the having of things. Votes: 0

The adhesion of Coca-Cola is an affirmation of the expansion of the Global Pact and the importance it assumes worldwide, especially on the US market where more and more enterprises have decided to get involved. Votes: 0

The unqualified affirmation of the univeral will of salvation has radically changed the way of conceiving the mission of the Church in the world. . . . The work of salvation is a reality which occurs in history. Votes: 0

My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself. Votes: 0