Albert Ellis Quotes

• The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide problems are your own. You do not blame them on anyone or anything. You realize that you control your own destiny.

  Albert Ellis

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Destiny, Realize

• You largely constructed your depression. It wasn’t given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

  Albert Ellis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Largely, Given, Depression

• 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

  Tags in Themselves

• There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

  Albert Ellis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Back, Hold, Easy, Must

• Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it’s conditional.

  Albert Ellis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greatest, Sickness

• Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

  Albert Ellis

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Rational, World, Getting, Good, Bring

• People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

  Albert Ellis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Motives

• People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

  Albert Ellis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hardly, Bothering, Insights, Change

• People don’t just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.

  Albert Ellis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Get, Upset, Just, Contribute

• Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I’ve received over the years.

  Albert Ellis

• Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.

  Albert Ellis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Psychoanalysts, Angry, Been, Refused, Flying, Many

• In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.

  Albert Ellis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Affiliated, Belong, Insurance, Get, Few, Old

• If something is irrational, that means it won’t work. It’s usually unrealistic.

  Albert Ellis

  Tags in Irrational

• Let’s suppose somebody abused you s*xually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

  Albert Ellis

  Tags in Abused

• If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.

  Albert Ellis

  Tags in Establishment, Experiments

• I’m very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it-going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

  Albert Ellis

  Tags in According

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Quit, Finally, Psychoanalysis, Criticizing, After

• I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven’t got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.

  Albert Ellis

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Degree, Frankly, Time

• I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.

  Albert Ellis

  Tags in Psychoanalysis, Therapy, Foolishly, Directive

• 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.

  Albert Ellis

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Disturb, Overcome, School

Albert Ellis (35)

Birth:	27th September, 1913
Death:	24th July, 2007
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Writer

About

Albert Ellis was an American psychologist who in 1955 developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. He held M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in clinical psychology from Columbia University and American Board of Professional Psychology. He also founded and was the president emeritus of the New York City-based Albert Ellis Institute.He is generally considered to be one of the originators of the cognitive revolutionary paradigm shift in psychotherapy and the founder of cognitive-behavioral therapies. Based on a 1982 professional survey of U.S. and Canadian psychologists, he was considered as the second most influential psychotherapist in history.

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