Quotes About Self-talk

Still alive," he muttered to himself.

Too often we talk ourselves out of God's best. We allow doubts, fears, and discouraging things people have said to limit us and convince us to settle where we are. Negative voices always speak the loudest.

Sports psychology suggests - and we as players have been taught - that negative self-talk can diminish our chances for success and that the opposite is also true. Given the talent, we can also think and speak our way to success.

I try to tell myself something encouraging to get myself pumped for the day.

I definitely get down on myself. I needed to work on my self-talk. The same way you do footwork drills and cardio training, I had to do self-talk training.

I probably talk to myself more than I talk to anyone.

When you learn to talk people up, you will never talk yourself down.

Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up.

To become a leader you must have a positive mental attitude, which you can achieve with positive self-talk and looking at what is right with people instead of what is wrong with them.

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

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.

The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your 'cognitions,' or thoughts. A cognition refers to the way you look at things - your perceptions, mental attitudes, and beliefs. It includes the way you interpret things - what you say. about something or someone to yourself.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, 'I have failed three times,' and what happens when he says, 'I'm a failure.'

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, "I have failed three times," and what happens when he says, "I am a failure."

Words have power. The things that you say to yourself as a parent - the things that you say maybe even just one time to your children - they take it, and they take it into their real world and into their life and beyond.

Our moods and performance can often depend on whether this self-talk is positive or negative.

So if you identify as a ruminant, please write a new script for yourself. And repeat firmly after us: rumination is for cows!

My thoughts are loving and positive.

If an assemblage of words you're using is creating states that disempower you, get rid of those words and replace them with those that empower you!

toda la diferencia se reduce a la manera en que nos comunicamos con nosotros mismos y a las acciones que emprendemos.

More important, the level of success you experience internally—the happiness, joy, ecstasy, love, or anything else you desire—is the direct result of how you communicate to yourself. How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life—it is your interpretation of what is happening. Successful people's lives have shown us over and over again that the quality of our lives is determined not by what happens to us, but rather by what we do about what happens.

had been dragged under by a riptide of negative self-talk: I am not enough. I am rejected, no matter how hard I try and no matter what good I do. I am alone and not wanted. All fears that ending my marriage had stirred up and brought to the surface.

Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself.

Do speak positively. For, you can liberate yourself by speaking like that. Contrariwise, you can enslave yourself by speaking negatively.