Affirmation Quotes

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.

I don't believe. I know.

You become what you think about most of the time.

Realize now the power that your words command if you simply choose them wisely.

It's nice to have a lot of people supportive of what I'm doing.

You bet I did. I enjoyed it.

I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!

My praise is perhaps an unforgivable poison.

I don't hate people.

I am a prophet…I am a prophet … I am a prophet…

When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.

Be grateful for what you do have, and you will find it increases. I like to bless with love all that is in my life right now-my home, the heat, water, light, telephone, furniture, plumbing, appliances, clothing, transportation, jobs-the money I do have, friends, my ability to see and feel and taste and touch and walk and to enjoy this incredible planet.

Let's make this clear: I do not hate anybody.

A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.

I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.

I'm the parent of a queer child, and for my kid to know that they can always come to me and I'm going to love them no matter what is the biggest gift.

It's such an amazing thing to be loved for who you are.

Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise.

I think death is not simply the last few moments of life, death is something that runs throughout the whole of life. Each of our moments is not only the possibility of affirmation, but it's also we're saying farewell at each moment to something.

Our desire for interconnectedness, our desire to be seen, our desire to be acknowledged, our desire to be liked - these are all deep needs, these survival instincts we've evolved to function in a tribal society.

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

I think you need to love giving compliments as much as you love receiving them.

The Duke and Swing represent affirmation in the face of adversity.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.