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Quotes About Affirmation

Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented, and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. Such attitudes are active and definite factors in creating satisfactory conditions. Watch your manner of speech then if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me." Spend several minutes each day visualising His presence. Then practise believing that affirmation. Go about your business on the assumption that what you have affirmed and visualised is true. Affirm it, visualise it, believe it, and it will actualise itself. The release of power which this procedure stimulates will astonish you.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, putting faith into action, big things happen.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
2. Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal powers comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me." Spend several minutes each day visualizing His presence. Then practice believing that affirmation. Go about your business on the assumption that what you have affirmed and visualized is true. Affirm it, visualize it, believe it, and it will actualize itself. The release of power which this procedure stimulates will astonish you.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Don't run down your job, Aunt Liberty; you're all right, all right.
~ O. Henry
Don't run down your job, Aunt Liberty; you're all right, all right.
~ O. Henry
each of us, at our core, longs to be loved, needed, understood, affirmed—to have intimate connections that leave us feeling more alive and human.
~ Oprah Winfrey
What follows 'I am' is what we're inviting into our life. Meaning when you use phrases like, I am exhausted, or, I am overwhelmed, you are inviting exactly that kind of energy into your life.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Every word we speak is an indestructible force, because it affirms a thought, a sentiment, an emotion, a motive, which never ceases to exert its power.
~ Orison Swett Marden
If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine. And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.
~ Orson Scott Card
unaffirmed people I have met often have an utter sense of helplessness because they believe there is nothing they themselves can do
~ Conrad W. Baars
not come to feel his own goodness, worth and lovableness because those significant persons in his life were not present to him with the full attention of their whole being.
~ Conrad W. Baars
the fate of the unaffirmed person gives us all the clues as to what this person can do and be in order to become more receptive to
~ Conrad W. Baars
To never let the other forget who they are—love is also about that.
~ Cornelia Funke
you certainly should
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
He felt […] as if he'd just gotten a letter, out of the blue, from somebody wise enough to know the truth, from everybody, or at least everybody who mattered. "Hello," the letter said. "Hello, Jeff Greene, I've been watching you and I like you and I want to know you better. This is just to say I'm glad you're alive in the world." The list of signatures, he thought, would include his own.
~ Cynthia Voigt
For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Affirmation, in contrast to flattery, requires seeing someone well enough to sense what to affirm, knowing someone well enough to be aware of what really matters. Flattery is usually an admittance of insensibility, a betrayal of trust. We say things we think we should say, but in reality we aren't thinking at all. What message does flattery send? "You don't matter enough for me to pay you much mind.
~ Dale Carnegie
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.
~ Dale Carnegie
He declared he never stepped in front of the footlights without first saying to himself over and over: I love my audience. I love my audience.
~ Dale Carnegie
Isn't it profound the influence one is afforded—even the smallest among us—when affirmation comes clean off our tongue and clear from our hearts? All great progress and problem solving with others begins when at least one party is willing to place what is already good on the table. From there it is much easier to know where to begin and how to lead the interaction to a mutually beneficial end.
~ Dale Carnegie
There is nothing I need so much as nourishment for my self-esteem.
~ Dale Carnegie
We all have an innate, unquenchable desire to know we are valued, to know we matter. Yet affirming this in each other is among the most challenging things to do in our day and age.
~ Dale Carnegie