Quotes About Self-help

P: ¿Cómo puedo ayudarme a mí mismo? R: Recordando: "El Sendero no ha de ser encontrado en lugar alguno mas en el servicio humano", de Saadi

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.

God helps them that help themselves.

A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

All the advice in the world will never help you until you help yourself.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

Not that thick book called The Purpose of Your Life. You get that one later. These are "How To" manuals. Each is called Getting By When You're Up The Creek Without a Paddle, Fighting Back When You're Sick of Getting Pushed Around, Love—What It is and How to Survive It, or How to Keep From Going Crazy When Everyone Around You Already Is.

Despite the third word of the title, this is not an instruction manual that will tell you anything useful about how to be happy. Those books are located in the self-help section two aisles over, and once you've bought one, done everything it says to do, and found yourself miserable anyway, you can always come back here to understand why.

No, the irony hasn't been lost on me: the happiness book has been making me miserable.

Well, I keep my book Heart Thoughts with me because it's easy to read a few short passages in one sitting. I also have Alan Cohen's A Deep Breath of Life nearby. And right now I'm rereading Florence Scovel Shinn's The Game of Life and How to Play It.

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

The poor need the motivation, the incentives, the skills, the education so they can help themselves.

Look at all the magazines: There's always 10 ways to be better at something.

Popular self-help teaches you to ask for help, accept help, set boundaries, say no. So you ask for help and the person you ask politely refuses. Because he or she has learned to set boundaries and say no.

Like many self-help books, The Deepest Blue is full of horrifyingly simplistic language and some admittedly good advice. Somehow the women in the book learn to say: That's my depression talking. It's not "me." As if we could scrape the color off the iris and still see.

88. Like many self-help books, The Deepest Blue is full of horrifyingly simplistic language and some admittedly good advice. Somehow the women in the book all learn to say: That's my depression talking. It's not "me." 89. As if we could scrape the color off the iris and still see. 90.

Every book is a self help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better...Reading is like a drug. When I am reading from these books it feels like I am thinking what is being read, and that gives me a rush. - Marc Maron, Attempting Normal

Every book is a self help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better...Reading is like a drug. When I am reading from these books it feels like I am thinking what is being read, and that gives me a rush.

The truth is, I can't read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie which we ascribe to heaven.

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.

The best person who can help you out of your problems is the one you see in the mirror.

Like it or not ,others will help you, but the biggest help comes from within.