Quotes About Giving Yourself Permission

#1. Give yourself permission to be happy. It doesn't matter what's going on around you, what matters is what's going on inside you.

Hal Elrod

#2. Stop giving yourself permission to fail;
start giving yourself permission to succeed.
You cannot win battles you have already lost in your mind.
You cannot lose battles you have already won in your heart.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. It is difficult to describe the peace that comes with giving yourself permission to know what you know. To have hard, complicated realities staring at you and be able to raise your head and look back at them with a steady gaze, scared maybe, grieved perhaps, but straight on and unwavering

Valerie Tarico

#4. It's important that we share our experiences with other people. Your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else. When you tell your story, you free yourself and give other people permission to acknowledge their own story

Iyanla Vanzant

#5. This Yes is about giving yourself the permission to shift the focus of what is a priority from what's good for you over to what makes you feel good.

Shonda Rhimes

#6. You just need that opening, that moment, when you finally decide to give yourself permission to change.

Tosca Reno

#7. Let others know when they have hurt or angered you. By not speaking up when someone insults or mistreats you, you are inadvertently giving permission for him or her to continue to treat you in the same way in the future.

Beverly Engel

#8. Not all writing is political or revolutionary, but the very act of giving yourself permission to write, to speak, to share the truth no matter whether the truth you understand is the truth others want to acknowledge, is brave, powerful, and important.

Dinty W. Moore

#9. When you recognize that failing doesn't make you a failure, you give yourself permission to try all sorts of things.

Lauren Fleshman

#10. You know, sometimes just giving yourself permission to feel any emotion without judgment or censorship can lessen the intensity of those negative emotions.

Augusten Burroughs

#11. It's about you, giving yourself permission to be who you are, without giving a rip about what anybody else is thinking about it.

Esther Hicks

#12. Give yourself permission to smile a lot today. In fact, why not make it a habit!

Iyanla Vanzant

#13. Give yourself permission to do what you've always wanted.

Chris Guillebeau

#14. If you decide that you cannot beat a temptation, what you are really doing is giving yourself permission to be irresponsible.

Gary Zukav

#15. Give people, including yourself, clear permission to make mistakes ... and to fix the problems. Since nobody's perfect, mistakes should be allowed. Cover-ups shouldn't. Cover-ups create twice the trouble.

Price Pritchett

#16. Sometimes to be creative you have to give yourself permission to not be outstanding.

James K.A. Smith

#17. Never give yourself permission to avoid doing what is right.

Mario Daniel Vega

#18. Figure out what depletes you creatively and get it out out of your life. (This doesn't apply to spouse and kids.) Give yourself permission to put garbage on the screen. A lot of days it's the only way you'll be able to keep going. You can clean it up later.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#19. If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.

Jet Li

#20. You give yourself permission to be the person you want to be, the artist you want to be, no matter what your circumstances!

Jill Eikenberry

#21. Just give yourself permission to tell the truth to yourself.

Iyanla Vanzant

#22. To have a friend and a comrade as your co-star, especially in a romantic comedy, is really important. It gives you the room. It's easier to give yourself and the other person permission to play.

Alex O'Loughlin

#23. Friendships offer more than happiness and a feeling of mutual camaraderie; in time they are most important while giving you permission to ultimately be yourself.

Steven Cuoco

#24. Give yourself permission to enjoy being gay. You do have to give yourself permission. You have been told you may not. Give yourself permission to be free.

Harry Hay

#25. Before you begin your day: Take a moment of silence and meditation, and give yourself permission to have all that you desire.

Debbie Ford

#26. Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

Pat Riley

#27. If your stories are all about your products and services, that's not storytelling. It's a brochure. Give yourself permission to make the story bigger.

Jay Baer

#28. It's not about finding your voice, it's about giving yourself permission to use your voice.

Kris Carr

#29. Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. there is no need to explain or make sense of it. just trust what you feel.

Sonia Choquette

#30. Give yourself permission to shoot for something that seems totally beyond your grasp. You may be surprised at your capabilities

Danica Patrick

#31. If you give yourself permission to feel the pain and the joy, without attaching to either, then you can be happy or sad with an underlying peace that just makes everything feel like it's going to be OK.

Richard Brancatisano

#32. Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.

Greg McKeown