Best Self Help Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help.”

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Author:Mike White

“God helps those who help themselves.”

Source: Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth

“With God, all things are possible.”

Source: Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering the Art of Manifesting

“If you have to learn it from a self-help book, you may be beyond help.”

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Author:Wes Smith

“To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.”

Giving Self Help Regret Letting Go Giving Up Charity

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“When it comes to achieving your dreams, the excuse "I don't know where to start" is no longer valid. Between the countless self-help books available on Amazon.com and the limitless supply of free articles found through Google, everything you need is just a click away. It's time you go figure it out!”

“The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)

“The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of helping them to help themselves.”

Way Needs Doe Self Helping Spirit Self Help Helping Others Brotherhood

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.”

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Author:Marcus Garvey

“The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight; that he shall not be a mere passenger, but shall do his share in the work that each generation of us finds ready to hand; and, furthermore, that in doing his work he shall show, not only the capacity for sturdy self-help, but also self-respecting regard for the rights of others.”

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Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates”

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Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.”

Love Giving Persons Book Self Helping Self Help Damn Don't Give A Damn Self Help Books I Don't Give A Damn Help Book

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.”

Happiness Attitude Morning Conditions Self Help Circumstances Happy Get Up Positive Attitude Resolve Happy Life Being Happy Conditioning Life Happiness Joy And Happiness Joy Happiness Happiness Is A Choice

Author:Ralph Waldo Trine

“I went to a bookstore the other day. I asked a woman behind the counter where the self-help books were. She said, ‘If I told you, that would defeat the whole purpose.’”

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Author:Brian Kiley

“The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue.”

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Author:Samuel Smiles

“There's so many problems in our world, so much negativity. Don't worry about the darkness - turn on the light and the darkness automatically goes. Ramp up the light of unity within - help do that for yourself, help do that for the world and then we're really doing something, we're doing something that brings that light of unity.”

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Author:David Lynch

“Self-help books for those who believe 'You can have it all' often advise, 'Follow your bliss and money will follow.' With the collapse of the stock markets the reality of trade-offs is more like, 'When you follow your bliss, it's money you'll miss.'”

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Author:Warren Farrell

“Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive in their image; this philistine romanticism established the bourgeois hero-prototype the penniless office-boy who works his way to economic fortune and this wins his way into the mercantile plutocracy.”

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Author:John Carroll

“I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.”

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Author:Cary Grant

“The buying of a self-help book is the most desperate of all human acts. It means you've lost your mind completely: You've entrusted your mental health to a self-aggrandizing twit with a psychology degree and a yen for a yacht.”

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Book:Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye

Source: Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye

“Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed.”

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Book:Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

“Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation, and domination of women. Instead, these books suggest that individual relationships between men and women can be changed solely by women making the right choices.”

Source: Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

“The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.”

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Author:J. G. Holland

“Loving the self, to me, begins with never ever criticizing ourselves for anything. Criticism locks us into the very pattern we are trying to change. Understanding and being gentle with ourselves helps us to move out of it. Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”

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Author:Louise Hay

“You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

Author:Bindi Irwin

“I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.”

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Author:Brian K. Vaughan

“The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.”

“A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is embraced in advertising, self-help books, and much more. . . . Yamada, who is both a scholar of Buddhism and a student of archery, offers refreshing insight into Western stereotypes of Japan and Japanese culture, and how these are received in Japan.”

“All self-help is Buddhism with a service mark”

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Author:Merlin Mann

“If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?”

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Author:George Carlin

“The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way.”

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Book:Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941

Source: Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941

“Deepak Chopra, look at him. He's probably the most successful self-help guru in the world. I don't think he's struggling for any marketing or exposure. You've just got to know where your audience is.”

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Author:KRS-One

“Very few women have become famous for being who they actually are, nuanced and imperfect. When honesty happens, it's usually couched in self-ridicule or self-help. Dunham doesn't apologize like that-she simply tells her story as if it might be interesting. The result is shocking and radical because it is utterly familiar. Not That Kind of Girl is hilarious, artful, and staggeringly intimate; I read it shivering with recognition.”

Ifs Kind Self Helping Stories Might Happens Girl Interesting Results Self Help Honesty Familiar Recognition Radical Intimate Imperfect Apologizing Shocking Ridicule Kind Of Girl

Author:Miranda July

“Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?”

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Author:Sydney J. Harris

“Ours is the one ever-present voice in our lives. Therefore, it is crucial that our self-talk instill confidence within us and is supportive, not submerging, and that our attitudes toward ourselves help keep our spirits afloat through acceptance and trust. We are our own most important and influential buoy.”

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Author:Sue Thoele

“Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.”

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Author:Mohsin Hamid

“Church is missing transcendence. My generation was raised on a religion of moral control. Do this. Don't do that. And a lot of self-help religion. Feel better. Get out of debt. Six ways to overcome your fears. Seven ways not to lust. Ultimately that message didn't work. It was empty. There was no transcendence. The omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful God of the universe wasn't the focus.”

“Everything in life that's meaningful takes effort - takes vitality. You have to work at it. And God helps them who help themselves...help you.”

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Author:Jack LaLanne

“There is a lot of stigma and snobbiness about the self-help genre, and I can't vouch for everything out there, but for me, the idea of giving someone else the gift of inspiration and making them feel passionate and capable in an area of their life is the most incredible thing in the world.”

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Author:Matthew Hussey

“Ultimately the greatest help is self-help.”

Self Helping Powerful Self Help

Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness.. an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.”

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Book:You Can be Happy No Matter what: Five Principles for Keeping Life in Perspective

Source: You Can be Happy No Matter what: Five Principles for Keeping Life in Perspective

“The only real help is self-help. Anything else is just designed to get you to the point where you can help yourself.”

Real Self Helping Self Help Help Yourself

Author:Seth

“I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it nearly mirrors the world itself. Aside from the packaging, there is nothing that cannot be found in most churches today that could not be satisfied by any number of secular programs and self-help groups.”

Source: Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church

“I don't ask myself, "Well, does God exist or does God not exist?" I choose to believe that God exists, and therefore I can say, "God, I can't do this by myself. Help me not to take a drink today. Help me not to take a drug today." And that works fine for me.”

Believe Wells Doe I Can Helping Today Asks Self Help Fine Drink Drug Help Me God Exists

Author:Stephen King

“I definitely have a spiritual outlook. I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer, 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved. I'm not a religious guy, in fact I'm probably agnostic but I thought what this writer had to say was really powerful.”

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Author:Chris Pine

“It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one.”

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Author:Walter Kirn

“Everybody wants confidence but you don't find it in self help books. You find confidence in the Holy Spirit.”

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Author:Rick Warren

“If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help.”

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Author:George Carlin

“Self help books are pointless. Here's something for you... Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and self help books are from Uranus.”

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Author:Craig Ferguson

“You have to be responsible for yourself, refer to yourself, develop yourself, help others, whatever it may be. So we shouldn't have an idea that the whole thing is to shatter ones ego.”

May Ideas Whole Helping Self Help Ego Responsible Helping Others Being Responsible

Author:Robert Thurman

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