Affirmation Quotes

An affirmation opens the door. It’s a beginning point on the path to change.

Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

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.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

As we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict. … We have to affirm our own life. We have to affirm our own death. And we have to affirm love, both given and received.

It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person’s feeling of self worth, even an opponent’s. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.

Now in these troubled times, even more than ever, we need an affirmation that there is goodness and beauty in the world.