Affirmations and thoughts for growth

www.dedicatedfathers.org

Affirmations are solemn personal declarations that you hold and believe are true. While sometimes you may already believe in the truth of an affirmation, some affirmations can be used to change our thinking from that which is negative and self-defeating, into thinking that is positive and self-affirming. The affirmations and thoughts for growth found in this section are my personal affirmations which at one time were my salvation. Therefore, if you become discouragement and full of despair, you might want to read the following affirmations. In fact, you may want to do what I did, read them over and over again until you do actually start to believe in them.

Warning: Positive thoughts and positively impact your behaviors, positive behaviors can attract a multitude of people, out of a multitude of people, you just might discover the one person who can make your life full, joyful and fun again. Please feel free to add to this list as you come across those affirmations and thoughts for growth that are meaningful to you. We can never have enough positive self-talk, we already know the amount of negative stuff that gets in our brains every day.

Remember, if I do not affirm myself in my way, others surely will in their way.


“I would rather be criticized for doing that which I know to be right,
than to be praised for doing that which I know to be wrong.”
-Marvin L. Chapman

“Love is something that you can leave behind when you die. It’s that powerful.”
-John (Fire) Lame Dear, Rosebud Lakota

“Think you can, or think you can’t, either way you will be right.”
-Henry Ford

“We may misunderstand, but we do not mis-experience.”
-Vine Deloria, Jr., Standing Rock Sioux

“If you throw you head over the wall, your body will follow.”
-Quote found among father’s-in-law papers after he passed away

“Argument doesn’t pay, you don’t come home happy.”
-Oral Tradition, Hopi

“I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.”
-Booker T. Washington

“Crisis changes people and turns ordinary people into wiser or more
responsible ones.”
-Wilma P. Mankiller, Cherokee

“Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe
and enthusiastically act upon, must inevitably come to pass.”
-Paul J. Meyer

“Those who know how to play can easily leap over the adversaries of life.
And one who knows how to sing and laugh never brews mischief.”
-Proverb, Iglulik

“Try not to become a man of success, rather become a man of value.”
-Albert Einstein

“Not everything that is faced can be changed,
but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
-James Baldwin

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters,
compared to what lies within us.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Forgive the past. Live today with integrity, and the future will be kind to you.”
-Marlena Chapman

For more thoughts and affirmations visit www.unitedfathers.org
Please visit www.dedicatedfathers.org

By: Dedicated Fathers