Self Affirmation Quotes

“Give it to yourself. Validate yourself. Affirm yourself. Yes, it’s nice to get it from others, but we must build within ourselves the ability to self-affirm.”
― Josh Hatcher

“I'm proud of myself for doing my best. That's all anyone can ask of me.”
― Stefanie Weisman, The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College

“All forms of writing are an act of conception; writing must lead to creation. Each time that we write, we begin again. Writing is an act of self-affirmation. Each time that we place our thoughts onto paper, we receive a new opportunity to claim our reality. Writing is also an act of explication and deconstruction. Writing empowers us to shape and modify our fiery constitutions. Writing allows us to explore the essential ingredients that lead to a life of serenity by exhibiting compassion, love, patience, generosity, and forgiveness.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“I seek to use the tools of the mind to overcome a narcissistic self and attain self-mastery. I aspire to engage in self-cultivation by making practical usage of the process of enduring privations, overcoming challenges, and rejecting illicit temptations in order to gain fortitude, courage, and wisdom. I shall reflect upon grievous personal mistakes and embrace the concept of repentance as a lifelong growth process through which humankind conscientiously learns to make better choices by forsaking vice, immorality, and wickedness. I must also unreservedly embrace fate by perceiving everything that happens in life including suffering and loss as good, and affirm a life filled with indignity, sorrow, and tragedy. I can only discover happiness – a meaning, purpose, comprehensible truth, and essential value of existence – by living with dignity in the face of absurdity. When we affirm all aspects of being, we enjoy a tranquil existence.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster

“There is a power within and without. If you ask, it answers. It's just a matter of being calm and wise and listening. It takes years.”
― John Altman, In the Nick of Time - The Autobiography of John Altman, EastEnders' Nick Cotton

“I decided not to think about the shock-induced death of my family.”
― Kabi Nagata, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

“Affirm: I don't mean dole out vapid praise or flatter ourselves in the mirror, which research shows to be counterproductive. I mean that we should create opportunities, even small ones, for people to express who they are and what they value, and to feel valued. Contrary to popular wisdom, many self-affirmations take the form not of "I am good, or smart, or well liked" but "Here is what I am committed to and why," which "firms up" the self. We miss far too many opportunities to affirm people, which, ironically, is the most important when they may seem least worthy of affirmation: when they're threatened, stressed, or defensive.”
― Geoffrey L Cohen, Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides - Library Edition

“Self-affirmation, accepting the truthfulness of our being, is the highest virtue. Positing the self is an act of self-avowal. All acts of self-discovery commence with honestly facing personal trepidation while engaging in character building activities that promote internal transformation.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“C'est parce que j'aime ce qui est cool... Voilà pourquoi je m'habille de cette façon.”
― Sumiko Arai, 気になってる人が男じゃなかった VOL.1 [Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta, Vol. 1]

“To think that there's any mountain too high for me to CLIMB would be the universe playing mind games with me and I'm constantly positioning my mind to not fall for such a trick.”
― Chinonye J. Chidolue

“I agree that one should spend more time with individuals that bring out the best not stress, and sometimes that includes surrounding yourself with #reading books that nurture #positivethinking, putting out daily reminders, like Post-it Notes that self-affirm your #goals & tenacity for surpassing them, and surrounding yourself with nature that allows you to be still and self-love!”
― Nzondi, Oware Mosaic

“I am strong enough to know that I don't have to pretend, anymore, about who and what I am. I'm even strong enough to fail.”
― Stephanie Burgis

“Daily self-affirmations are a must for every entrepreneur.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“Imagine that every time you saw yourself reflected you took a nano-moment to remind yourself: ‘It’s wonderful to look uniquely like myself.”
― Ken Breniman, Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction