Quotes About Self-help

No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.

Procrastinators tend to buy self-help books about procrastination, then take them home, put them on a shelf, and never read them.

our professions, as presently organized, often discourage self-help, self-discovery, and self-reliance;

Somehow they fail to see that for someone aggravated by depression, self-help will be useless, indeed, it is precisely the self that needs to be forgotten.

It is often said that God helps those who help themselves. This is a roundabout way of saying that God doesn't exist, but if our belief in Him inspires us to do something ourselves – it helps. Antibiotics, unlike God, help even those who don't help themselves. They cure infections whether

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman where the Self Help section was. She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose.

quotes like this were a bunch of crap. I also didn't understand what the hell they were talking about. I mean, not that I cared. I was too cool. What little I knew about the self-help/ spiritual world I found to be unforgivably cheesy: it reeked of desperation, rah-rah churchiness

Those the brownies will not help, must learn to help themselves

Horror. I can't manage it. I become--well--horrified. Self-help books have a similar effect. When asked, Any literary genre you simply can't be bothered with? - (By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from the NYT Book Review, by Pamela Paul)

Contrary to what many self-help books would have you believe, adding a great number of obscure words to your vocabulary will not help you advance in the world. You will not gain new friends through this kind of endeavor, nor will it help you in the workplace.

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.

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.

I taught myself how to be a speaker on Google. I just Googled 'how to be a motivational speaker.'

I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

The gods help them that help themselves.

Bred in the doctrine of self-help, individual Canadians seemed tragically willing to accept responsibility for their plight. Some literally died rather than accept relief. Slowly guilt turn to despair and then, as the depth and duration of the Depression exceeded every memory, to deep but unfocused resentment.

There's not a party, a congressman, a senator, etc. elected that will fix your life. YOU have to fix YOUR life.

If you believe in living a respectable life, you believe in self-help which is the best help!

No!" said Sofia. "I read! Self-help can be very useful." She gave her sister a meaningful look. "Really?" said Carmen. "As useful as Rainbow Rowell? Or Douglas Adams? I doubt it.

Woodswoman: Living Alone in the Adirondack Wilderness and Linda devoured it, marveling at the independence and frugality of the author, ecologist Anne LaBastille, who was inspired by Walden and built her own cabin using just $600 worth of logs. Next she started Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality, an entrepreneurial self-help tome that she scoured for advice on building a fulfilling future.

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

'Focusing' is no conventional repackaging of self-help wisdom. It is at once a manual and a philosophy. It talks about the body's wisdom, the steps of the focusing technique, how to discover the richness in others by learning to listen.

Pain is important, and changing who you are is difficult, painful, and scary. Most of the self-help industry sees change as this euphoric, liberating thing and tells you that you can be happy all the time. I think the opposite.