Affirmation Quotes

• 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.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Men
  • Conquest
  • Affirming

• 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

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

  

  Bruce Wilkinson
  • People
  • Dream
  • Affirmation

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Faith
  • Perfect
  • Necessary

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

  

  Emile Coue
  • May
  • Persons
  • Stronger

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

  

  Jimmy Walker
  • Affirmation

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Earl A Grollman
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Pain

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

  

  Mortimer Adler
  • Thoughts
  • Consequence
  • Denial

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

  

  Bob Benson
  • Beauty
  • Goodness
  • Troubled Times

• I’ve been a good mother,” she said. It was a plea rather than an affirmation.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Affirmation
  • Good Mother
  • Plea

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

  

  Niels Bohr
  • Question
  • Affirmation
  • Sentence

• 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

• 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

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