Quote

Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.

Albert Ellis

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Albert Ellis
Age: 93 †
Born: 1913
Born: September 27
Died: 2007
Died: July 24
Behaviour Therapist
Cognitive Scientist
Non-Fiction Writer
Psychologist
Sex Educator
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Anything
Persons
Person
Intrinsic
Failure
Value
Values
Doesn

More quotes by Albert Ellis

Image
I teach people to be flexible, scientific and logical in their thinking and therefore to be less prone to brainwashing by the therapist.
Albert Ellis
Image
Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis.
Albert Ellis
Image
Humans can always accept themselves unconditionally.
Albert Ellis
Image
You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
Albert Ellis
Image
Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.
Albert Ellis
Image
To err is human to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.
Albert Ellis
Image
The easy way out is often just that-the 'easy' way out of the most rewarding lifestyle.
Albert Ellis
Image
Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.
Albert Ellis
Image
I'm one of the best-loved psychologists in the United States, but I'm also probably the most hated one.
Albert Ellis
Image
People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.
Albert Ellis
Image
I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.
Albert Ellis
Image
If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.
Albert Ellis
Image
I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs. In that sense, psychotherapy belongs in the schools.
Albert Ellis
Image
The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are not, nor probably ever will be, any absolute certainties, and should realize that it is not at all horrible, indeed—such a probabilistic, uncertain world.
Albert Ellis
Image
If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - about anything. Yes, anything.
Albert Ellis
Image
Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.
Albert Ellis
Image
Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.
Albert Ellis
Image
I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.
Albert Ellis
Image
If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and internalized sentences, they would find it quite possible to work calmly and concertedly at changing them.
Albert Ellis
Image
We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
Albert Ellis