Quotes About Self-talk

If it doesn't do you any good, dump it. Take some action, push that lever, flush it away, and don't look back. Take small steps everyday of your life, and start taking control of what you say when you talk to yourself.

Ceasing negative imaging will always cause your

you can change your mood by changing how you think.

For example, in answer to "I never do anything right," you could write, "Forget that! I do some things right and some wrong, just like everyone else. I fouled up on my appointment, but let's not blow this up out of proportion.

If you talked to your friends the way you talk to yourself, you wouldn't have any.

He often talked to himself when he was overwhelmed with fear. He saw it as a more dignified reaction than wetting himself. And

Your Authentic Self emerges when you're unburdened by the rash judgments, negative self-talk, fears, and reactivity of your Imposters.

I figured if I told it to myself often enough, I would start believing it.

Your business is never really good or bad 'out there.' Your business is either good or bad right between your own two ears.

You can't afford the luxury of a negative thought

This is not good," I told the trees. Don't fight it. Acknowledge it. Talk to yourself. "Already covered," I said. "Unless you have something to add?" "No," I replied. "Do go on.

In some ways, negative self-talk can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Just as an athlete is more likely to make the shot after visualizing making it, she's also more likely to miss it after visualizing a miss. Your words, whether externally spoken or internally absorbed, shape your future.

I like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I've already made up my mind that I have the victory.

We're always trying to persuade ourselves of things.

May comments, "We're always trying to persuade ourselves of things." Are

Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy

we talk to ourselves more than we'll talk to any other person over the course of our lives but that our words aren't always kind or true or helpful—or even respectful. Most of what we say to ourselves we'd never say to people we love or care about, like our friends or children.

I poke at my skull with a finger. It didn't feel soft or anything. I didn't feel insane. But if you'd really lost it, would you have enough left to know? Crazy people never thought they were crazy. I've always talked to things, I said. And to myself. Good point, myself agreed with me. Unless that means you've been nuts all along. I don't need wiseass remarks, I told myself severely. There's work to do. So shut up.

If you weren't getting pretty close to crazy right now, would you be talking to yourself right now?

if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.

Every waking moments we talk to ourselves about the things we experience. Our self-talk, the thoughts we communicate to ourselves, in turn control the way we feel and act.

We all have voices in our heads which talks to us on an almost constant basis. Our voices give us messages continually, and what they say to us affects us.

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.

If you have an inner dialogue that disempowers you, it won't change until you yourself replace it with a positive, powerful, internal conversation.