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Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. -- Jim Rohn
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. -- Niels Bohr
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. -- Romain Gary
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. -- Muhammad Ali
But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented. -- Taylor Hackford
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. -- David Hume
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation. -- Jane Fonda
You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.' -- Florence Scovel Shinn
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen. -- Ellen Key
Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level. -- Alexander Haig
Affirmation plus action equals miracles. -- Cheryl Richardson
Little by little, one travels far -- J. R. R. Tolkien
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. -- Orison Swett Marden
I am the joy of life expressing and receiving in perfect rhythm. -- Louise Hay
There is a line between a definite maybe and an indefinite yes. -- Mason Cooley
An affirmation opens the door. It's a beginning point on the path to change. -- Louise Hay
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought. -- Napoleon Hill
Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth. -- Linda Chavez
Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted. -- Robert Collier
One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false. -- Robert Collier
I give myself permission to be all that I can be, and I deserve the very best in life. -- Louise Hay
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest. -- Muhammad Ali
Affirmation statements are going beyond the reality of the present into the creation of the future through the words you use in the now. -- Louise Hay
Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life. -- Albert Schweitzer
Affirmation literally means to validate or confirm. So when we think a thought over and over again, we are validating or confirming it as the truth. -- Robert Anthony
Affirmations are like seed planted in soil. Poor soil, poor growth. Rich soil, abundant growth. The more you choose to think thoughts that make you feel good, the quicker the affirmations work. -- Louise Hay
Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase and find that it helps you, that is a valid affirmation. -- Eric Maisel
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. -- Norman Vincent Peale
You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires. -- Robert Collier
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. -- Albert Schweitzer
An affirmation is simply a positive declaration of something you believe to be true or something you expect to become true and desire to live by. Affirmations transform your thinking, your attitudes, and finally, your behavior. Their impact on attitudes and behavior help to produce the results you desire. -- Paul J. Meyer
I'm an artist; affirmation is like catnip to me. -- Andrea Riseborough
To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer. -- Henri Nouwen
Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life. -- Alex Noble
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I've always looked for my affirmation through my peers, the people I race against, and within my team. -- Jimmie Johnson
If you want your dream more than you have to have people's affirmation, that's how you break through your border bullies. -- Bruce Wilkinson
I know what it's like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing. -- Shakira
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. -- Simone Weil
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
Christianity and Judaism are united above all in their common affirmation and implementation of the moral teaching of the Hebrew Bible, or 'Old Testament,' and the traditions of interpretation of that teaching. -- David Novak
It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through. -- Miranda Otto
The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences. -- Pierre Bourdieu
Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is not important for his body, ego, or personality. His constant affirmation of ego-consciousness is the source of all his problems. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come. -- Melody Beattie
The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they'll prove it to you every single day. -- Biz Stone
A home should be an intimate autobiography of the things that you like. One of the things I'm so keen on expressing is that, if you don't do it for yourself, if you're always seeking affirmation from outside, you'll never have a home. It'll just be a house. -- Alexandra Stoddard
However much some journalists may criticize me, I know that I look, feel, and behave several decades younger than my actual age, and much of that is because I believe you are what you think you are. This is called positive affirmation, and it's a really strong tool. -- Joan Collins
Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements. -- Wynton Marsalis
My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets! -- Wayne Dyer
He wanted AFFIRMATION rather than INFORMATION. -- Barbara W. Tuchman
Fear is an affirmation of your growth. -- Rhonda Britten
Man lives more by affirmation than by bread. -- Victor Hugo
An attitude of gratitude is life's most powerful affirmation -- Angie Karan Krezos
Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation. -- Leo Buscaglia
The Duke and Swing represent affirmation in the face of adversity. -- Wynton Marsalis
...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread. -- Victor Hugo
Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I am a moment illuminating eternity....I am affirmation...I am ecstasy. -- Alexander Scriabin
An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so. -- Shakti Gawain
Unlike a lot of people, I don't need the affirmation or anything. -- Bob Seger
Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who we are. -- Esther Perel
Develop an affirmation today, and start getting instant confirmation in all works of like. -- Richmond Akhigbe
The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy. -- Paul Tillich
People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause. -- Andrew Cuomo
Self-affirmation cannot be found in love; it is a prior condition of genuine love. -- Jo Coudert
It's a great affirmation of the possibility of overcoming conflict through reason and good will. -- Mary Ann Glendon
Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. -- Wynton Marsalis
Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
A prayer and positive affirmation are the keys for a divine intervention in any situation. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Negative self-talk and negative affirmation can keep you anchored in old thought patterns and identities. -- Bryant McGill
For everyone, whatever his state--single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love. -- Josemaria Escriva
Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity. -- Mary Catherine Bateson
When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments. -- Zhuangzi
The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations. -- Chuck Hagel
A baby nursing at a mother's breast... is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature. -- David Suzuki
'If only' is the excuse of the loser; 'I can' is the affirmation of the winner. -- William Arthur Ward
The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
This isn't romance. This isn't a declaration of love or affirmation of friendship. This is something more. -- Melina Marchetta
The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love. -- Erich Fromm
It would not be necessary to make an affirmation more than once if one had perfect faith. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made. -- Charles Bradlaugh
There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry. -- Criss Jami
Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence. -- Aimee Mullins
Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain. -- Earl A Grollman
The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor. -- Jim Rohn
If you're depressed and called Morgan spend the first half of the day in Germany for some positive affirmation. -- Milton Jones
WHAT A TIRING WAY TO LIVE, WHEN YOUR SELF-WORTH IS CONSTANTLY RELYING ON THE AFFIRMATION AND APPROVAL OF OTHERS. -- Darlene Zschech
There is nothing more profoundly serious than real comedy, which is an affirmation of human communion, redemption and grace. -- Michael Malone
The minute you say "I can't", it is another wrong affirmation to your subconscious that you choose to lose. -- Tsem Tulku
A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional. -- Stephen Covey
Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing? -- Martin E. Marty
More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question. -- Mortimer Adler
Judgment is affirmation with the intention to thereby affirm competently enough, and indeed aptly. That distinguishes judgments from mere guesses. -- Ernest Sosa
It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love. -- Cornel West
The drop in pending home sales is an affirmation that we are experiencing a modest slowing in the housing sector. -- David Lereah
My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement. -- Martha Graham
Here is an affirmation for today: I feel passionately about my life, and this passion fills me with excitement and energy! -- Wayne Dyer
Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations -in contrast to depending on affirmation from others. -- Judith M Bardwick
There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours -- Ayn Rand
Have you thought that your willingness to forgive is really your affirmation of the power of God to do you good? -- Paula Rinehart
The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt. -- Wendy Kaminer
The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe . -- Paul Tillich
I know not what you mean by God; the word God is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation. -- Charles Bradlaugh
Now in these troubled times, even more than ever, we need an affirmation that there is goodness and beauty in the world. -- Bob Benson
Admittance into the true church of Christ is based on regeneration, not merely on an affirmation of a creed or doctrine. The -- John Bunyan
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Islam united all heresies persecuted in Byzantine Empire and synthesised them well into a conseffion that later became a symbol of Arab self-affirmation. -- Lev Gumilev
That which distinguishes the new thought from the old is not a denial of this Divine Reality, but an affirmation of its immediate availability. -- Ernest Holmes
Every thought we think and every word we speak is an affirmation of what we believe about life and it's the same with magnetism. -- Louise Hay
Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society. -- Emile Zola
We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside. -- Pankaj Mishra
One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it. -- Joseph Campbell
Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity. -- Leonard Cohen
In order to qualify as a judgment, an affirmation must aim at getting it right aptly, through competence, and not just through a lucky guess. -- Ernest Sosa
In Divine unity and the affirmation of it, Divine beauty and dominical perfection become apparent. If there was no unity, that pre-eternal treasury would remain hidden. -- Said Nursi
Faith is a state of mind which may be induced, or created, by affirmation or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind, through the principle of auto-suggestion . -- Napoleon Hill
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.] -- Niels Bohr
What we need are poems that interrogate the world of pronouns, open up possibilities of language and life; forms of politics that support and encourage self-affirmation. -- Judith Butler
An affirmation to say everyday: The healing power of God is working in me right now. Eveyr day I get better and better in every way. -- Joyce Meyer

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