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Quotes About Affirmation

lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry -the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids' flutter which says we are for each other: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
~ E.E. Cummings
You can probably identify your friends' gifts rather quickly
~ Edward T. Welch
Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will to live.
~ Albert Schweitzer
She was beautiful; my breath was taken; we were still lonely; she said yes.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
People have a capacity to keep going even when their world has been shattered. We all long for connection, for affirmation that our lives matter.
~ Alex Kotlowitz
Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.
~ Alex Noble
Some parents withdraw their love by simply refusing to respond to a child—that is, by making a point of ignoring him. They may not say it out loud, but the message they're sending is pretty clear: "If you do things I don't like, I won't pay any attention to you. I'll pretend you're not even here. If you want me to acknowledge you again, you'd better obey me.
~ Alfie Kohn
Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better.
~ Émile Coué
Food sovereignty is an affirmation of who we are as indigenous peoples and a way, one of the most surefooted ways, to restore our relationship with the world around us.
~ Winona LaDuke
Even just a little bit of praise can weaken you.
~ Javier Mascherano
I say things as if they've already happened, so as I'm getting ready I can think about it and feel it, how it's going to feel to win, and I see myself getting on the podium.
~ Mandy Bujold
My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good brotherly work.
~ Marilynne Robinson
I think that I've always represented self-empowerment, you being your best cheerleader, you always affirming yourself. I've always been about empowering people. It sounds very cliche in a way, but it's not.
~ BeBe Zahara Benet
I needed somebody to love me, and the people that I chose were my coaches. I would sacrifice my body to be successful for my coaches because I wanted them to love me, to respect me, to have positive feelings about me.
~ Steve Largent
I'm not a player who needs telling every day in training 'you're brilliant, you're this, you're that'... but it's always nice to hear comments from the manager and people around that you're doing well.
~ Phil Jones
I compliment people when I see something I really like and tell them, 'That was good. Keep doing what you're doing.' That's as much as advice as you will get out of me.
~ Jeff Hardy
Always compliment someone if you can, I think.
~ Lady Amelia Windsor
It's always the compliments from people you love that mean so much.
~ Maria Bamford
It's nice to get compliments from both girls and guys.
~ Jim Sarbh
It's hard for some parents to give their children compliments.
~ Carmen Cusack
You are committed to what you confess.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
~ Frank Gifford
It's funny; I think I'm at a level of recognizability - is that even a word? - where it's just really nice. I think when people are really famous, it can be hard for them because they feel like it's an invasion. But for me, it's just a few times every day when someone will say something sweet and validating, and it's just the best.
~ Zach Woods
affirmation and recognition. Sometimes people working with the Organizers will end up feeling unheard, used, and treated as things instead of being valued as persons. This may breed in them a sense of discouragement and depression (repressed anger) which affects their own performance. The Organizer may misread
~ Reginald Johnson