Affirmation Quotes

• I'm good enough; I'm smart enough. Self-affirmation is where people list their core values. These are things that really make them who they are.

  

  Amy Cuddy
  • People
  • Good
  • Smart

• The variables of quantification, 'something,' 'nothing,' 'everything,' range over our whole ontology, whatever it may be; and we are convicted of a particular ontological presupposition if, and only if, the alleged presuppositum has to be reckoned among the entities over which our variables range in order to render one of our affirmations true.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • May
  • Existence
  • Order

• 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.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • People
  • God
  • Writing

• We must look to an open, tolerant, inclusive England, which embraces the values of a Britain that still leads the world in terms of an open democracy, as well as an understanding of the needs for responsibilities and obligations to run alongside the affirmation of individual rights.

  

  David Blunkett
  • World
  • Understanding
  • Democracy

• 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.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Women
  • History
  • Affirmation

• I've always felt like I belonged, and you need affirmation every now and then.

  

  Jimmy Walker
  • Affirmation

• While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is 'outside,' what is 'different,' what is 'not itself'; and this No is its creative deed.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Different
  • Affirmation

• I never want to lose touch with reality. I won't push $100 candles just because. I realized that I could create a hub of positivity and affirmation.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • Reality
  • Affirmation

• There are two great fundamental problems common to all thought: (i) the problem of world- and life-affirmation and world- and life-negation, and (2) the problem of ethics and the relations between ethics and these two forms of man's spiritual attitude to Being.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.

  

  Brendan Myers
  • Life
  • Wise
  • Catholic

• Some young ladies are so starved for male approval that what should be a normal attraction to men is accelerated into an obsessive need for male affirmation. Tragically, these dear ladies allow themselves to be devoured in the arms of men who have neither regard not respect for them as people.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Men
  • Respect

• God, please use me" is the most powerful affirmation we can say for an abundant career. It is the miracle-worker's prayer. Everybody wants a great job. Accept that it's already been given you. The fact that you're alive means a function has been assigned to you: open your heart to everyone and everything. That way you're a vessel of God. Don't worry about what to say or what to do. He'll let you know.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Great
  • God
  • Heart

• 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.

  

  Pierre Bourdieu
  • Work
  • Important
  • Culture

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

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Belief
  • Affirmation
  • Repetition

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

  

  Joyce Meyer
  • God
  • Power
  • Affirmation

• I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence -- I can find worlds bigger and deeper than my own in music, paintings, and books. And from my friends and family I receive the highest benediction, emotional contact, and personal affirmation. I can bow before the works of Man, from buildings to babies, and that fulfills my need for wonder. I can believe in the sanctity of Life, and that becomes the Revealed Word, to live my life as I believe it should be, not as I'm told to by self-appointed guides.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Beauty
  • Existence
  • Worship

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

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Faith
  • Perfect
  • Necessary

• Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain.

  

  Earl A Grollman
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Pain

• 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.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Sake
  • Negation
  • Abstention

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

  

  Darlene Zschech
  • Worth
  • Affirmation
  • Approval

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

  

  Emile Zola
  • Art
  • Society
  • Individual

• It's enough for a small betrayal, a distancing, an affirmation of independence to provoke wrath, fear and also hatred from the adult. How many husbands and boyfriends kill the woman they say they love because she has decided to leave. It's in the news every day.

  

  Dacia Maraini
  • She
  • Fear
  • Small

• We can make, to ourselves, very much stronger suggestions than anyone else can, whoever that person may be.

  

  Emile Coue
  • May
  • Persons
  • Stronger

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

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Emotional
  • Ingredients
  • Visuals

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