Top 1200 Self Affirmation Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the answer to our problems. Rather, the answer is a revival of our ancient commitment to God, who rules over all the peoples of the world and exalts no one over any other, and to the moral and spiritual values which were once legendary in America. We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

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

The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain. We're supposed to go after what we want, not question whether we really need it.

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

Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

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

Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice.

Everyone has a self-destructive nature in them. It's whether you feed it or not. You don't have to be a pop star to feel connected to destruction or self-destruction. But self-destruction is self-obsession, and self-obsession is not really possible if you're engaged in raising children. And if you have a spiritual life, you're constantly being asked to see yourself as one small fragment in the bigger picture.

Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.

All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors. Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of love you bear for your self, all I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect. Deny yourself nothing -- glue your self infinity and eternity and discover that you do not need them; you are beyond.

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.

One of the most powerful concepts, one which is a sure cure for lack of confidence, is the thought that God is with you and helping you. This is one of the simplest teachings in religion, namely, that Almighty God will be your companion, will stand by you, help you, and see you through. No other idea is so powerful in developing self-confidence as this simple belief when practiced. To practice it simply affirm "God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me." Spend several minutes each day visualizing his presence. Then practice believing that affirmation.

Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible?

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

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

When you are free of your self in your heart, your labouring within your self is therapeutic to your self. It is a constant blend into your self of what your own Being is. The movement of love, enjoying being at work in the self. The movement of love, enjoying making a change in your self. The enjoyment of application.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency, in you.... If you realize the unity of the Self amid the diversities of the Not-Self, then Yoga Will not seem an impossible thing to you.

The "biggest" poems I ever made are based on the psychological principal of the "Johari Window:" what the self freely shares with others; what the self hides from others; what others hide from the self; and what is unknown to the self and others.

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.

Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain.

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.

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

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

Gratitude is a divine attitude in the wisdom traditions. It takes you out from the ego self and takes you into the higher self. That higher state of consciousness initiates self repair, self regulation and healing.

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

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

Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.

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

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

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.'

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

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

I always return to Paris, taking my selves along - past self, customary self, the self I never had.

The search for total knowledge starts from the Self and finds its fulfillment in coming back to the Self, finding that everything is the expression of the Self - everything is the expression of my own Self.

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

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

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

Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

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.

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

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

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

His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.

The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.

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

Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.

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

Thinking is the subtlest form of self-polemics, the art of a certain finesse in psychological self-vivisection and self-crucifixion (Hegel of course called the path of self-disillusion the via dolorosa or "highway of despair," in Baillie's fine and florid rendering, like Jesus' route to Golgotha).

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

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

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

There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice.

Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.

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

In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.