Helping Self Quotes

#1. Live according to the ethics of excellence, and you can always stand proud. Pride - not vanity, but dignity and self-respect - should carry a lot of weight in helping you make decisions. Let pride help you decide.

Price Pritchett

#2. In addition to helping me understand what love looks like between people, these definitions also forced me to acknowledge that cultivating self-love and self-acceptance is not optional. They aren't endeavors that I can look into if and when I have some spare time. They are priorities.

Brene Brown

#3. I'm a self-made man. Who else would help?

Oscar Levant

#4. To live is not to live for one's self; let us help one another.

Menander

#5. You can't let something that'll probably never happen ruin your life. You're only helping to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy

Raymond Khoury

#6. Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework
an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Betty Friedan

#7. With just a touch more self confidence and a liberal helping of ignorance I could have been a famous evangelist.

Robert A. Heinlein

#8. Religion is about integration, about successfully bringing the selfish ego into line with the centre of the personality where God exists, as a divine spark, in every human being. Religion is about helping man to live in harmony with his true self and to become the person God's designed him to be.

Susan Howatch

#9. The fact that our message and my lyrics can have a positive impact on someone's life is really astounding. It definitely makes me appreciate what I do even more because I'm not just doing it for self-gain, I'm doing it to help others.

Beau Bokan

#10. The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.

Horace Mann

#11. Helping other people can be a cure not just for those who are in need, but for your soul as well.

Marinela Reka

#12. Jimmy put in a word and told them that if I made it, I wouldn't be able to live with myself without paying them back. That I'd sooner die than owe anyone money for helping me.
Apparently Jimmy knew more about me at that point than I knew about myself.

Craig Ferguson

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

Marcus Garvey

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

Gary Hopkins

#15. Always help people increase their own self-esteem. Develop your skill in making other people feel important. There is hardly a higher compliment you can pay an individual than helping him to be useful and to find satisfaction in his usefulness.

Donald Laird

#16. If your heart, mind, and actions are selfish, they will ultimately divide you, others, or entire [establishments]. When motivation is pure and selfless, it will result in helping bring others together.

A.J. Darkholme

#17. I don't know about you,
but for me ... to be honest,
I would prioritize myself,
before helping other people.

Toba Beta

#18. Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

Sophocles

#19. The gods help them who help themselves.

Aesop

#20. Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#21. To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.

George Washington

#22. Help does not come from anywhere outside - it comes only from within ourselves.

Abhijit Naskar

#23. The best kind of politics is when you help people become their own best selves.

Paul Wellstone

#24. The only way to reach the mountain peaks of life is to forget about self and help other people reach greater heights.

Zig Ziglar

#25. This surrender isn't a one-time thing but is continually embraced over a lifetime. There will be an initial surrendering to God, breaking the self. God will keep this process current through circumstances, helping us to continue to deny ourselves.

Ryan Shaw

#26. A person must first learn how to walk on their own before you can guide them in the right direction.

Craig Mercier

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

B.R. Ambedkar

#28. Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#29. Lift up your two hands; remember one is for helping others while the other is for helping you. Give a helping hand to whoever needs help. I believe you need help too; give help to yourself!

Israelmore Ayivor

#30. The motivation I possessed to serve my country is what got me out of the small town of Lyons, Texas where I grew up, and into the world of service, love of country, helping others, and being an American soldier." (Page 90).

Kenneth A. Bracewell

#31. Self-improvement comes mainly from trying to help others.

John Templeton

#32. It's sometimes easier to help others rather than helping yourself. The trick is to listen to your "self" as a friend. This may be the simplest change you ever make in life, with the biggest impact.

Lorii Myers

#33. Are you a slave to your self-centered nature or does your divine nature guide your life? Do you kow that every moment of your life you're creating through thought? You create your own inner condition; you're helping create the conditions around you.

Peace Pilgrim

#34. The simple act of helping someone - with no desire (or possibility) of repayment is good for us and our self-image, and it may positively change the life or outlook of the receiver for the day!

Kevin Eikenberry

#35. It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.

Sam Levenson

#36. I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

Fred Rogers

#37. When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self - giving is a personal power - releasing factor.

Norman Vincent Peale

#38. You are not bound. You have got free will. You cannot change the experiences, the results of Prarabdha but you can change your future by right thinking and right action and thus make your will pure and irresistible. You can attain Self-realisatio n with the help of a dynamic will.

Sivananda

#39. Only a self capable of being jolted out of its mundane complacency is up to the task of both hearing what repair demands and helping to invent new responses to harms that no preexisting remedy fully comprehends.

Jill Stauffer

#40. At times we can be self-absorbed. Lord, help us to open our hearts to others and to serve those who are most vulnerable.

Pope Francis

#41. Most so-called women's work is not recognized as real activity. One reason for this attitude may be that such work is usually associated with helping others' development, rather than with self-enhancement or self-employment.

Jean Baker Miller

#42. Zen is all about self-study/knowledge and self-help!

Mika.

#43. If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain gained meaning was through its communication to others.

Diane Wood Middlebrook

#44. You, being yourself, help others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them.

Jane Roberts

#45. You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting.

Albert Ellis

#46. When I was bartering to gain clients, I was self-sabotaging my business. I wasn't making money, and the promised "exchange of advertising" wasn't helping to grow my business.

Kim Beasley

#47. I'm interested in helping women become courageous in being exactly who they are. Because the only way to change anything is to do it from your genuine self.

Elizabeth Lesser

#48. Self-care is the number one solution to helping somebody else. If you are being good to yourself and your body and your psyche, that that serves other people better because you will grow strong enough to life someone else up.

Mary Lambert

#49. Crisis can go on to a critical point or turning point where deciding factors plays their games. It is a point to surrender or survive, stay alive or die. You can rise above the storm.

Ikechukwu Joseph

#50. I love to put on frequency music or binaural beats to keep myself centered. It helps me with mental clarity, and it gives me a moment to breathe and be present.

Syesha Mercado

#51. There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and that is the faculty of self-improvement - a faculty which, with the help of circumstance, progressively develops all our other faculties.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#52. 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.

Theodore Roosevelt

#53. How dare you talk of helping the world? God alone can do that. First you must be made free from all sense of self; then the Divine Mother will give you a task to do.

Ramakrishna

#54. I seen women take this kind a' help from a man with a look a' relief on their faces. I wondered if these women knew how much easier their lives would be if they did all this stuff for themselves.

Beth Lewis

#55. We are all so self-obsessed, not really helping others as we should, spreading the love so to speak.

Princess Superstar

#56. I have found that the best cure for self pity is to do something to help someone else.

Carl Orr

#57. We hope to help you discover Your Self; inspire you to live more passionate and sensitive life; helping you listen to your Soul, finding your-own space in this matrix of life, making a genuine contribution to humanity.

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#58. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#59. 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

#60. You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

Criss Jami

#61. Who is the self that you are helping?

Muni Natarajan

#62. The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

Calvin Coolidge

#63. Like the ripples from a stone tossed into the pond from the water's edge, the effects of our choices extend infinitely outward. Even the smallest of acts reverberates in the ears of unwritten histories.

Justin Young

#64. Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.

Randy Pausch

#65. I invest because I love helping entrepreneurs and watching them learn and succeed. In my opinion your motives are driven by self serving factors around ego satisfaction and "making a buck". My motives and values are very different.

Ron Conway

#66. Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

Morarji Desai

#67. When you reach out to those in need, do not be surprised if the essential meaning of something occurs.

Stephen Richards

#68. The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

Samuel Smiles

#69. Non nobis solum nati sumus.
(Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#70. Self-love helps me make positive changes easily

Louise Hay

#71. You have a deeper, wiser, loving self that you can always ask for help.

Annette Funicello

#72. The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#73. We are but a speck in the Universe
Oh, but what a lucky speck to be ...

Kehinde Sonola

#74. Your ability to see will never broaden when you only see yourself.

Shannon L. Alder

#75. Helping professionals, therapists, life coaches, healers can greatly assist you in changing your life for the better, but they pale in comparison to the power thats gained from developing a relationship with yourself. It's you that holds the power for change

Renae A. Sauter

#76. We should teach, particularly ourselves, that nobody is a nobody. We are someone, and with God's help we can accomplish all things.

Marvin J. Ashton

#77. Educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve - as Coach Graham taught me - is if we develop a real ability to assess ourselves. If we can't accurately do that, how can we tell if we're getting better or worse?

Randy Pausch

#78. It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others.

Terry Fox

#79. I would encourage them never to forget that they were not always vegans. The self-righteousness of the recently converted hurts, it does not help, other animals.

Tom Regan

#80. Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.

Karl Rahner

#81. The truth is that if we are consumed with finding ways to help others, there will be little room left in our minds or our hearts for self-pity, self-loathing or unhappiness with the world in which we live.

David S. Baxter

#82. I don't think in terms of that bizarre tautology 'value for money' in my literary and journalistic work - and nor will I in my academic role. However, if I don't believe I'm helping my students towards a fuller and more empowering relationship with the world, then I'll resign.

Will Self

#83. God heard us. He sent help. He sent you.

Marianne Williamson

#84. We don't need any self-help. We need our selves to stop helping those who don't let us be our true selves.

Saurabh Sharma

#85. Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

Jean De La Fontaine

#86. Our most intense joy comes not from personal feats, but from helping other persons achieve their goals. We become suppler human beings when we find true joy in witnessing other people's successes and unabashedly share in their joyful accomplishments.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#87. Self-help isn't really self-help unless someone else is also helping you. We'd like to be that someone.

Kenneth Schwarz

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

Seth

#89. Lucid dreaming has considerable potential for promoting personal growth and self-development, enhancing self-confidence, improving mental and physical health, facilitating creative problem solving and helping you to progress on the path to self-mastery.

Stephen LaBerge

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

George Carlin

#91. I can help you, Jorge. I can give you back your self. I can give you your will.' He held out his hand, palm open. 'Free will has to be taken,' I said.

Mark Lawrence

#92. When you marry you marry the known and unknown man or woman

Ikechukwu Joseph

#93. Ultimately the greatest help is self-help.

Bruce Lee

#94. I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.

Louis C.K.

#95. Before World War I, self-improvement meant being less self-involved, less vain: helping others, focusing on schoolwork, becoming better read, and cultivating empathy. Author

Peggy Orenstein

#96. One of the great underlying principles governing our life is service. Most of us have to work, but do we serve? Do we work in a spirit of service? Do we work for Life and our fellows? Or do we merely work for self, in order to make a living?

Henry Thomas Hamblin

#97. Self-deception helps us deceive.

David Livingstone

#98. Walk through life eager and open to self-improvemen t and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

#99. Before you can give anyone a hand up, first you must get yourself up there to do so ...

Stephen Richards