Iyanla Vanzant

It is an honor and a privilege to be of service and support; however, I realize people are not putting their confidence in me. Instead, they are actually learning to trust themselves. My job is to affirm and support them in the process and teach them to do what I do when I need strength: I begin within.

American Author

Jewell Parker Rhodes

A grandparent can be simply affirming. A grandparent has been there, done that child-raising stuff, and has the wisdom of experience. And so in some ways, they're free to love without the anxiety of being the actual parents. They're free to give.

American Novelist

Judith Durham

When you, like if you sing a song and it gets into your brain that it becomes, it repeats and repeats like an affirmation so I find that quite empowering and quite important to keep my positive attitude to life.

Australian Musician

Norman Vincent Peale

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

American Clergyman

Henri Frederic Amiel

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

Swiss Philosopher

Khoudia Diop

Having support from family, friends - and now fans - definitely helps to affirm that I am worthy, loved, and beautiful. I hope everyone can see that in themselves and feel this way.

Senegalese Actress

John Gavin

We have affirmed the principle that a mature relationship between nations - as between individuals - can only flourish in an atmosphere of mutual respect.

American Actor

Ethan Canin

There once was this powerful, both capital and political, class who cared about supporting and affirming a solid middle class in this country.

Shakira

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.

Musician

Trace Lysette

Going to meetings for Time's Up has been deeply affirming for me.

American Actress

Use 'affirm' when expressing certainty about facts or beliefs in an objective manner.

Objective Confidence

'Affirm' is emotionally neutral, without excitement, anger, or other strong feelings.

Emotionally Neutral

Use 'affirm' to subtly reinforce or confirm a point already made.

Subtle Confirmation

Use 'affirm' when making a strong, clear statement without hesitation.

Strong Assertion

'Affirm' is often used to publicly assure others about a commitment or fact.

Public Assurance

In a legal context, 'affirm' gives a clear, indisputable declaration about one's rights or position.

Legal Clarity

Use 'affirm' in a legal setting to formally support or confirm judicial rulings or agreements.

Formal Proceedings

Use 'affirm' to offer support and boost someone's confidence.

Positive Reinforcement

Choose 'affirm' to give positive and encouraging feedback, rather than mere approval.

Uplifting Feedback

 I couldn't use my locker for weeks because the bolt on the lock reminded me of the one I had put on my lips when the homeless man on the corner looked at me with eyes up merely searching for an affirmation that he was worth seeing. I was more concerned with touching the screen on my Apple than actually feeding him one. When the woman at the fundraising gala said "I'm so proud of you.

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 We had teachers who taught us how to raise our hands in class, and not just to signal surrender, and that the only thing we should give up is the idea that we aren't worthy of this world. So when we say that black lives matter, it's not because others don't, it's simply because we must affirm that we are worthy of existing without fear, when so many things tell us we are not.

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 So hopefully you can see now that skimping on sleep not only harms your long-term health, but actually makes it less likely that you'll retain all that knowledge and practice from the previous night, all of which just goes to affirm the wisdom of the phrase, "Sleep on it." When you think about all the internal restructuring

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 But I've always operated under this idea that these little moments of humanness are not superfluous. They're not retreats from the world at all, but instead they're the reasons why we come to these spaces. They are important and vital and they affirm and they give us life.

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 violence around them and I see how recently grassroots groups have been increasingly desperate to reaffirm the spirit not just to themselves but to the outside world many so many are always tempted to leave a war zone and many do leave because they're burnt out they're

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 of civil strife and rampant iniquity. Yet he ended the speech by affirming the possibility of building a better world, to quote, “where no one will be able to decide for others how they die, where love will prove true and happiness be possible,

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 that no candidate for popular election dare affirm it in public. If I'm right, this means that high office in the greatest country in the world is barred to the very people best qualified to hold it -- the intelligentsia --

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 In my estimation, it takes at least three permission, community and curiosity. Permission births confidence, community nurtures it and curiosity affirms it. In education, we've got a saying,

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 blood on ice in the Arctic is not a sign of death it's an affirmation of life for me it was life in the Arctic it was a hunt so the polar bears are currently

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 Islamic mystics still gather to affirm their beliefs a crowd urges them to spin they enter a state of trance believing in this way that they

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Objective Confidence

Emotionally Neutral

Subtle Confirmation

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