Top 87 Books Self Help Quotes
#1. We are highly susceptible to self destruction when we aren't doing what we really want with our lives.
James Dillehay
#2. I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.
Paulo Coelho
#3. I'm considering writing a self-help book and giving people 20 cents to read it. This way, I can be sure they all get new paradigms.
Ryan Lilly
#4. Life is very difficult. There's nothing to be ashamed of by reading self-help books. If you're stuck in a dark place it can be incredibly uplifting and hope providing to engage with those tools. So go out there and do it!!
Jim Dooley
#5. A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section.
Steve Maraboli
#6. You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
Samantha Morton
#7. Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.
Jane Siberry
#8. If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your're writing fiction.
Shannon L. Alder
#9. Let me tell you a few truths about being a stepmother you won't read in any self-help books or get from a therapist. It's emotionally draining to be a stepmother. Being a stepmother is the most difficult job on the planet because no matter what you do, you lose.
Sarah Jo Smith
#10. Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!
Chris Colfer
#11. Stop caring about what other people think of you, how they perceive you, or if they approve of you. Start to focus on your inner peace.
Tisha Marie Payton, MHR
#12. Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just is a dog.
Donald Miller
#13. My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.
Wayne Dyer
#14. 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.
Craig Ferguson
#15. The self-help books and websites haven't come up with a proper title for spouses living in the purgatory that exists before the courts have officially ratified your personal tragedy.
Jonathan Tropper
#16. 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.
Chris Pine
#17. Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.
Florence King
#18. Many self-help books give you these neat, tidy formulas that are really illusions. They dupe people into thinking, 'Well if I can just do that, then everything's going to be okay.' My work differs in that I don't offer quick solutions and simple explanations.
John Bradshaw
#19. When I die I hope it may be said:
'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'.
Shannon L. Alder
#20. 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.
Maggie Nelson
#21. I had to re-write "Philosophy" a lot. It was more obscure than what's in the book now, even! Some things I had to go back to and excise my former self, who was even more dense. I think you should teach whatever you want, Brian! That's the point of books like White Girls, to help free our thoughts!
Hilton Als
#22. 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.
Warren Farrell
#23. Where in the self-help section of Barnes and Noble does one find a guide on dealing with a supernatural stalker?
Cosmo Knox
#24. I don,t just want success for my self ,I want my success to benefit others .
Osman Gulum
Osman Gulum
#25. Go to any bookstore, and you'll see thousands of books on etiquette, which suggests there's a lot of self-help going on. There is hope.
Letitia Baldrige
#26. Self-Help Books of the Twentieth Century: Exploiting Hope and Fear," and
Margaret Atwood
#27. Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.
Hillary Clinton
#30. [ ... ] I'm about to get on a plane here, and I'm packing recovery literature. All I know is I'm going to be the guy reading the book on co-dependency. That's what I know about me.
Marc Maron
#31. You just have to say to yourself, "I am not willing to accept anything less than what I deserve! I am smart! I am Beautiful! I am a good woman and I deserve to be happy!" It all starts with you.
Amari Soul
#32. Everybody wants confidence but you don't find it in self help books. You find confidence in the Holy Spirit.
Rick Warren
#33. There are many self-help books by Ph.D.s, but I hold a different degree: an I.B.T.I.A.-I've Been Through It All. This degree comes not on parchment but gauze, and it entitles me to tell you that there is a way to get through any misfortune.
Joan Rivers
#35. If the self-help books worked, it would be a shrinking industry not a growing one.
Steve Maraboli
#36. We finish our own story. The details of our journey are still a mystery.
Steven Cuoco
#37. You cannot control anyone but yourself in this life, and that means you ultimately have the choice in whether you would like life's struggles to define you and keep you down, or would you like them to fuel you to be the very best version of you that you can be.
L.K. Elliott
#38. If you read stories, you will learn the valuable lessons of life situations, survival and build strength.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#39. Self Help: When you really stop and think about it, is there any other kind?
Evan Dorren
#40. I put the books I was returning on the appropriate desk, and I began looking at the shelves of new arrivals. Most of them were some permutation on self-help. Going by how popular these books were and how often they were checked out, everyone in Bon Temps should have become perfect by now.
Charlaine Harris
#41. 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.
Chris Pine
#42. Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.
Robin S. Sharma
#43. My life is more than a waiting period; it is an expedition. How I perceive it, and how I improve upon it is solely up to me.
Celeste Cooper
#44. Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses.
Harriet Lerner
#45. Use your will to conquer fears and weaknesses!
Tae Yun Kim
#46. The good thing about a self-help book is that if you misunderstand something then it won't mock you.
Stephen Richards
#47. Then I realize that words like "optimism" and "hope" which appear in all those self-help books that claim they'll make us more confident and better to cope with life, are just that: words.
Paulo Coelho
#48. 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.
Mike White
#49. After reading about ten of those self-help books, I saw that they were leading nowhere. They have an immediate effect, but that effect stops as soon as I close the book. They're just words, describing an ideal world that doesn't exist, not even for the people who wrote them.
Paulo Coelho
#50. Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being. See what I just did there? I saved you thousands of dollars on self-help books. If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.
Amy Poehler
#51. No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck.
Woody Allen
#52. It's no secret that most memoirs are really self-help books in disguise.
Nathan Hill
#53. Even though it doesn't look like it, I run. On a treadmill. And I bounce around to all the songs on my iPod - the Pixies, Wagner, Richard and Linda Thompson, even books on tape. Just not self-help ones.
Bill Hader
#54. When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more.
Vinny Guadagnino
#55. I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?
Harlan Coben
#56. Joseph's story just parted company with the volumes of self-help books and all the secret-to-success formulas that direct the struggler to an inner power ("dig deeper"). Joseph's story points elsewhere ("look higher").
Max Lucado
#57. Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing books for themselves.
Donalyn Miller
#58. -Those who never face oppositions always stop at propositions.
-Those who never confront obstacles live with delays and postponements
Ikechukwu Joseph
#59. Changing yourself is supposed to mean hope, at least according to the self-help books and magazine paradigms, but for me - and I suspect many others - it simply means finding new ways to feel inadequate.
Noelle Howey
#60. The apartment was tiny, but neat: the bed was made; a few books (business books and a self-help book, all in English and all from the library) were stacked on a nightstand.
Patrick Hoffman
#61. I learned how to believe in myself. Learned how to set goals, you know, self help books man. I just read every single one I can get a hold of, and I still do.
Drew Carey
#62. I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.
Isabel Allende
#63. I recommend anybody go to a bookstore, go down the self-help or new-age section, and just walk those aisles. See what book jumps out at you; there's a good chance it's a book you need in your life. That's basically how I find the books that I read.
Tom Araya
#64. How many books on manifesting will you buy before your realize that all you have manifested is a bunch of useless books? Do more than just wish; CREATE! Do more than just want; ACT!
Steve Maraboli
#65. Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.
Janice Dickinson
#66. 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)
Emma Thompson
#67. In my many years of working with people, I have never seen things change by chance, you have to work it out yourself ... life really sucks but YOU have what it takes to change it.
Nkem Paul
#68. You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.
Rita Mae Brown
#69. The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful ... or fun for that matter.
Dave Mustaine
#70. An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.
Roger Ebert
#71. instead of reading loads of self-help books, attending various seminars, listening to different preachers, we should just pick one thing. Something that feels true for us. Then practice it fiercely.
Kamal Ravikant
#72. Black is associated with power because all vibrational energies of all colors are drawn into one place, ready to be used. Wear black when you feel the need to draw energy to yourself for reviving your strength, energy, and will.
Tae Yun Kim
#73. Self-help isn't really self-help unless someone else is also helping you. We'd like to be that someone.
Kenneth Schwarz
#75. Once you fight the demons that live in your heart, the ones that live outside will never knock you door.
Birdy Fogh
#76. The meritocratic spectrum of self-determinist, self-help, books are as follows: on one end there's the _ steps towards a path to true bliss. On the other end of the spectrum there's the _ steps to cope with not reaching a path of true bliss.
Chester Elijah Branch
#77. Sometimes you only get one chance to rewrite the qualities of the character you played in a person's life story. Always take it. Never let the world read the wrong version of you.
Shannon L. Alder
#78. 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.
Maggie Nelson
#79. When you keep a strong image of what you want in your mind, and possess the conviction that it is yours by right, you send out powerful vibrations to the farthest reaches of the universe.
Stephen Richards
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Rhonda Wilson
#81. A few diaries could replace tons of self help books simply because their written in the first person ...
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#83. I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.
Jason Mraz
#85. Insull was a serious and driven young man. Born into a family of temperance crusaders, he spent his boyhood poring over books with titles like Lives of the Great Engineers and Self-Help.
Nicholas Carr
#86. you know those self-help books that give you permission to love yourself? This one gives you permission to love punctuation.
Lynne Truss
#87. I knew that if I had gone to the media or a publisher saying that I wanted my books and stories to be published to help other women start their own business~ that I would be rejected by them.
I know this because it has already happened to me many times.
Nina Montgomery
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