Self Talk Quotes

We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves.

Stop using sentences in your material world that reflect what it is you do not want to be.

Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation, and marry the story of the truth and everything changes.

Imagine the word CANCEL being a huge rubber stamp in your mind. Stamp CANCEL on any self-defeating image you place in your head, and begin to think in a self-enhancing way.

Your mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mindacts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts.

Negative things you tell yourself are inCANTations, turn them into inCANtations.

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself

Often people talk about how they feel 'stuck' in a situation. You're never stuck! You may be a little frustrated, you may not have clear answers, but you're not stuck. The minute you represent the situation to yourself as being stuck, though, that's exactly how you'll feel. We must be very careful about the metaphors we allow ourselves to use.

Nobody can motivate himself in a positive direction by continually using negative words.

Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole thing.

If you want to change your life, change the questions you ask yourself each day!

Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you're still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company.

You are the most influential person you will talk to all day.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

There is power in words. What you say is what you get.

I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools.

Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.

Evidence is conclusive that your self-talk has a direct bearing on your performance.

That mean voice in your head is not you and not true.

If you tell yourself a lie long enough, you'll start to believe it.

Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're real quite lucky.

We bless and curse ourselves.

There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all, for he has gone away." "Well, that is his loss, not mine," answered the Rocket. "I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." "Then you should definitely lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-fly.

What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is the quality of communication.

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. The moment you fear, you are nobody. Be a hero. Always say, 'I have no fear'. Tell this to everybody-'Have no fear'.

Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it. For man holds an inward talk with himself, which it pays him to regulate.