Quotes About Self-affirmation

Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

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.

But then she faced herself squarely in her bathroom mirror. "Do not think about it." she said aloud, so stern she convinced even herself.

I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.'

When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It's not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It's up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside.

Be careful what you're inviting in. Prophesy victory over your life. If you're going to talk about yourself, talk about the way you want to be. Speak health, speak vitality, speak abundance.

Every day remind yourself of your own ability, of your good mind and affirm that you can make something really good out of your life.

I bet if you go through the rest of your life telling yourself, "I'm sparkling," you'll have a whole different energy and experience.

I have chosen my own title for my name and it will be that of my mother. I will henceforth be called Kanmani Raghava Lawrence in my forthcoming movies! Nothing can bring me more happiness than my mother's name. No title can be equal to this!

The first thing you put on in the morning is your lingerie, and you have to look at yourself and tell yourself that you're beautiful, and that's really hard to do when even a simple catalog can't confirm that you're wearing something appropriately or look good enough.

A person often saying 'I love you all' to the people is just ensuring and assuring merely oneself each time that s/he is being liked by all as much as s/he loves only oneself.

I tell myself, 'You're too fast, you're too strong, you're too quick. You can't be broken, you can't be beat. If you can't be broken, you can't be beat.' And I just beat it into my head.

aveva già raggiunto quel limite di età, al di là del quale l'uomo in divenire deve affermarsi non solo contro i propri umori, ma anche contro una gigantesca chimera del mondo, che gli fa sentire ad ogni minuto, soffocandolo, la nullità del suo lo appena desto.

Friedrich Nietzsche

As hard as it is, owning who you are and knowing what you want is the only sure path to affirmation... I want women to know they can get out of any situation if they return to their core source of strength: themselves.

You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.

Indians, indians, indians." She said it without capitalization. She called me "indian, indian, indian." And I said, Yes, I am. I am Indian. Indian, I am.

I was completely shocked - two Grammy nominations. I've said it out loud to myself about 100 times.

I'm still here, I tell myself. I'm still here.

I can say to myself, "You've been through that and you are alive and you have done all right.

Abandoning a lifelong belief that to name happiness is to dissipate it, she smiled at herself in the mirror and told herself silently, You are happy, Eleanor, you have finally been given a part of your measure of happiness

No dia em que for possível à mulher amar na totalidade, não na sua fraqueza, não para fugir de si mesma mas para se encontrar, não para se demitir mas para se afirmar, nesse dia o amor tornar-se-á para ela, como para o homem, fonte de vida e não perigo mortal

The day when it will be possible for the woman to love in her strength and not in her weakness, not to escape from herself but to find herself, not out of resignation but to affirm herself, love will become for her as for man the source of life and not a mortal danger.

No dia que for possível à mulher amar em sua força e não em sua fraqueza, não para fugir de si mesma, mas para se encontrar, não para se renunciar, mas para se afirmar, nesse dia o amor tornar-se-á para ela, como para o homem, fonte de vida e não perigo mortal.