Quotes About Self-talk

Because your voice is the most influential voice in your life! If you want to see where your life is headed, listen to the words that are coming out of your mouth.

Did your mom ever tell you, 'If you can't say something nice, don't say anything'? She was right–and talking nicely also applies when you're talking to yourself, even inside your head. (339)

He hesitated for a split second, then told himself not to think. "I'd rather go down swinging," he muttered as he shut the door. If he survived this little ordeal he'd have to ask Lewis if talking to yourself was a symptom of losing your mind.

Today, my rule is not to say anything to myself—even silently—that I wouldn't say to a friend.

requires changing the narrative. As Daytner explained to me, she doesn't tell herself I don't have time to do X, Y, or Z. She tells herself that she won't do X, Y, or Z because "it's not a priority.

when things weren't going well he carried on long muttered conversations with himself, but when he was particularly pleased about something he was inclined to break into a loud, tuneless humming.

I talk to myself. It's my worst habit. I often muse aloud, or, when people drive me crazy, I curse them aloud. I might do a ranting monologue about how pissed off I am about them, occasionally forgetting that they might still be in the room; now, that's weird!

By talking to yourself every hour of the day, you can direct yourself to think thoughts of courage and happiness, thoughts of power and peace. By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for, you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing.

What we communicate to ourselves matters--

Negative programming. We write the programs. And we can rewrite the programs. If we drop the negative self- talk. If we drop the negative self- beliefs. If we drop the negative world view. Then we drop the negative programs. Think about the word negative. It refers to negative energy. What we put our energy into we create more of. Focusing on the negative is like praying for what we don't want. If we stop putting energy into what we don't want, then we stop creating it.

Use Self-Talk for Managing Your Own Anger • I'll focus on dealing with the problem and stay calm. • This isn't about proving that I am right and they are wrong. I don't have to "win" this, I have to manage it. • I need to keep reminding myself about what the ultimate goal is here. • This isn't a disaster, it's a small problem to be solved.

He can talk to himself about his dreams, hopes and aspirations. He can convince himself that there is a place for him and an important work for him to do.

As you stumble and learn, stumble and learn again, resolve to talk to yourself as if you were your best friend. So no "What a #?%$@ idiot!" when your BFF smashes an egg on the floor, m'kay? Be cool, like the Fonz.

The power broker in your life is the voice that no one ever hears. How well you revisit the tone and content of your private voice is what determines the quality of your life. It is the master storyteller, and the stories we tell ourselves are our reality. For instance, how do you speak to yourself when you make a mistake that upsets you? Would you speak that way to a dear friend when they've made a mistake? If not, you have work to do. Trust me, we all have work to do.

Most "superheroes" are nothing of the sort. They're weird, neurotic creatures who do big things DESPITE lots of self-defeating habits and self-talk.

It's not onstage as often anymore, but whenever I got anxious, I used to talk a lot more, and I wouldn't even know what I was saying... it was so bad. If I just talk myself through something, even if it's just talking about nothing, it usually gets me out of it.

It all makes more sense when I'm out here alone, he smiled. I can talk myself into anything.

Is giving yourself a pep talk every day silly, superficial, childish? No, on the contrary, it is the very essence of sound psychology. "Our life is what our thoughts make it." These words are just as true today as they were eighteen centuries ago when Marcus Aurelius first wrote them in his book on Meditations: "Our life is what our thoughts make it.

many of the top masters in their fields long ago had to learn to stop listening to themselves and instead begin talking to themselves.

If you persist in identifying with current or prior performance by constantly thinking and talking about it, then where you have been, where you are, and where you are going will all be one and the same

goals are important to you and how you are going to accomplish them—the action plan! So before attempting to create your own self-talk, invest the time and mental effort, as

In order to be gentle and create an atmosphere of compassion for yourself, it's necessary to stop talking to yourself about how wrong everything is—or how right everything is, for that matter.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.