Quotes About Self-help

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.

The gods help those who help themselves.

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm

There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

Labour grew out of popular movements of mutualism and self-help.

Leni wondered if one person could ever really save another, or if it was the kind of thing you had to do for yourself.

Therefore, instead of using the term spiritual disciplines, which points to a stance of independence and self-help, it would be better to use the term spiritual postures. These means of grace are ways to posture ourselves in the Spirit to God in Christ. Our "discipline" is really just a posturing.

I don't care who you are, is smart enough to just dole out advice. Just talk about your own experiences and what you did to help yourself.

I don't think of literary novels as self-help documents, although literature undoubtedly saved my life when I was young, enabling me to disappear into all manner of stories, to recognise feelings that I felt alone in.

There is no one more capable of helping you than yourself.

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

My interest in self-help began when I was a child in the Seventies. My mum had a book she would consult regularly: 'Passages' by Gail Sheehy, which deals with the challenging stages of growing up.

Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

I've found Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy (Collins) and The Feeling Good Handbook (Plume) to be extremely helpful and highly regarded books in the area of managing stress in productive ways. Many

Despite the usual reputation of self-help, the truth is that most self-help readers already have their lives together. People pick up books on time management because their lives are good, and yet they can see in that goodness that there is space for even more wonder.

Closure's a sham invented by talk-show hosts and self-help authors.

Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses.

Is a self help or personal development book ruining your life?

She thought of the self-help books preaching the importance of gratitude that millions of Americans bought each year. How many of them could muster gratitude for a cup of tea?

I worked at a nursing home though high school... There's a lost appreciation for a generation that has so much to tell us when we're so full of self-help books and doctors on TV.

Can you help me?" "Well," I said, "perhaps I can help you help yourself.

They are not saviours, and it is unfair to expect them to be. It's not them, but we, who have to solve our problems.

The best helping hand you will ever find is at the end of your own arm.