Top 309 Affirmation Quotes & Sayings

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

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it is the opposite of collectivism, the self affirmation of the self as part of a larger whole without regard to its character as an individual self.

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

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

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.

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

Given its more substantial aim, a judgment is apt only if its constitutive alethic affirmation is not only apt but aptly apt. The subject must attain aptly not only the truth of his affirmation but also its aptness. And that in turn requires not only the proper operation of one's perception, memory, inference, etc., but also that one deploy such competences through competent epistemic risk assessment.

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

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

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

I would say that deconstruction is affirmation rather than questioning, in a sense which is not positive: I would distinguish between the positive, or positions, and affirmations. I think that deconstruction is affirmative rather than questioning: this affirmation goes through some radical questioning, but it is not questioning in the field of analysis.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Every single thought I have and every sentence I speak is an affirmation. It is either positive or negative. Positive affirmations create positive experiences, and negative affirmations create negative experiences. My new affirmation habit is to only speak of the good I want in my life. Then, only good will come to me. I use my affirmations wisely.

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

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

I knelt and prayed, and the strongest truth came over me. Didn't matter if God in his heaven was a Catholic or a Protestant God, or the God of the Hindus. What mattered was something deeper and older and more powerful than any such image - it was a concept of goodness based upon the affirmation of life, the turning away from destruction, from the perverse, from man using and abusing man. It was the affirmation of the human and the natural.

Explain to people that everything they say is an affirmation. Everything they think is an affirmation. Everything! What you want to do is to get control of what you are saying and thinking, so these things bring you good experiences in life rather than rotten experiences.

Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world - that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me - is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.

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.

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

Affirmations are wonderful because it is much better to speak positively than to speak negatively. But the universe is not responding to your words; it responds to your vibration, and your vibration is being indicated to you by the way you feel. If you don’t believe what you are saying, your vibration hasn’t shifted, so nothing changes for you. The key to affirmations is to work yourself into a place where you really feel it. We have never talked about this before anywhere, but a very good application of an affirmation would be to affirm your way up the emotional scale. Start with an affirmation of where you are emotionally, then keep reaching for a better feeling thought.

Fear is an affirmation of your growth.

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

Affirmation plus action equals miracles.

Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

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

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

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

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

...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

A lot of the exercise of embracing identity as a political affirmation is not just simply parked in the question of skin color or culture, but more it is a political affirmation with all these implications and more.

An affirmation is almost like a mantra. It does not really matter if what you are affirming is not totally true as yet. By repeating an affirmation over and over again, it becomes embedded in the subconscious mind, and eventually it becomes your reality.

I think what happens in a religious life is that we have those experiences of affirmation and that one starts to live a Christian life or a Jewish life or a Muslim life or a Buddhist life, by affirming that affirmation each day. Each day you say 'Yes' to that Yes. So the life of being a Christian for example, is always a life of double affirmation, that you each day say 'Yes' to those counter-experiences of saying 'Yes', even when you're not experiencing them at that time, you're remaining loyal to that experience.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For me, diverse beauty is an affirmation of every single person in his or her own skin.

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.

In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. This affirmation lies in the way the author takes control of reality by retelling it in his own way, thus creating a new world. Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. The perfection and beauty of form rebels against the ugliness and shabbiness of the subject matter.

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

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

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