Nonfiction Self Help Quotes

#1. How hideous, that there should be a pecking order in my grief.

Sonali Deraniyagala

#2. It is not always a bad thing for you to be challenged by life and to struggle; however, as you go through these times, you have to be careful not to lose yourself in the process.

Meghan Wier

#3. We're distracted and we let the door slam on the person behind us, we trip over curbs as we're texting, we're...sedentary, weighed down, collapsed over the laptop. ...We've forgotten how to move through life with grace.

Sarah L. Kaufman

#4. Your values form the foundation of your life. They also form the foundation of your dreams. And just as each person's values are unique, so are each person's dreams.

Beverly K. Bachel

#5. Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.

Marilyn Manson

#6. If you can find time for [other] activities, you can make time for your goals.

Beverly K. Bachel

#7. The more often you visualize your success and the more details you envision, the more motivated you'll feel.

Beverly K. Bachel

#8. Attitude plays a bigger role than you may imagine in determining your future success - bigger than talent, money, or popularity.

Beverly K. Bachel

#9. I got married and decided I wanted to do a dance record, and I didn't ever expect for it to be what it was or for the 'No Doubt' thing to be such a long break, but it was one of those things where you just had to sort of follow your inspiration.

Gwen Stefani

#10. Joni Mitchell seems destined to remain in a state of permanent dissatisfaction - always knowing what she would like to do, always more depressed when it's done.

Jon Landau

#11. Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

George Santayana

#12. We are paint streaked runners,
deafened by the cries of all the sad people.
It's a powerful sound that practically yanks the tears right out of you.
Sometimes, you just can't help but feel like a
very small
clam in
a very
big ocean.

Taylor Rhodes

#13. I'm a good person, but with many defects.

Enrique Iglesias

#14. You truly do have the power to reach your goals.

Beverly K. Bachel

#15. There are 1,440 minutes in every day. How are you using yours?

Beverly K. Bachel

#16. Don't ignore or drive away your God sent Davids for you will need them when the life threatening giant Goliaths go on rampage in your life

Ikechukwu Joseph

#17. A comic book publisher says he's trying to increase voter turnout in the presidential election by publishing comic books about John McCain and Barack Obama. Yeah, the publisher said that the election comic books are targeted at first-time voters and long-time virgins.

Conan O'Brien

#18. Your supporters can help you think in new ways, solve problems, and burst through barriers.

Beverly K. Bachel

#19. Has anyone ever been more lovesick than a zombie, that pale, dull metaphor for love, all animal craving and lurching, outstretched arms, his very existence a sonnet about how much he wants those brains?

Jess Walter

#20. The difference between the ordinary and extraordinary is the extra. Go the extra mile and enter your extraordinary success

Ikechukwu Joseph

#21. How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

#22. To me, the excitement is in ordering a fine shotgun, going through the process that everybody who has bought one has gone through for 100 years. You order it, you make a significant down payment, and then you wait three or four years for the gun to be custom-made for you.

Tom Selleck

#23. When going for your goals, staying motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible are daily deeds of daring.

Beverly K. Bachel

#24. You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.

Kurt Vonnegut

#25. To make your goals savvy, keep them both personal (meaningful to you and aligned with your values) and positive (so you feel good about what you're trying to accomplish.

Beverly K. Bachel

#26. It's up to you to make your dreams real.

Beverly K. Bachel

#27. You're unstoppable as long as you keep taking the next step.

Beverly K. Bachel

#28. For you and me, just knowing His presence is all around us can help lift us from the darkest night, embrace us in the loneliest hour, give us strength when we are tempted, and enable us to live confident and secure in His promises.

Diane Moody

#29. Ask yourself exactly what you want in your life - now and in the future. If you were given the opportunity to do or have anything, what would it be, and why?

Beverly K. Bachel

#30. Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

Chuck Palahniuk

#31. To be a success you need to have persistence of drive, persistence of vision, and persistence of action. You will be doing yourself a disservice by not staying resilient.

Meghan Wier

#32. The most meaningful hopes and dreams don't come from outside sources - they come from within.

Beverly K. Bachel

#33. I would say there's always a movement of music and fashion in youth culture - every decade inspires the new one.

Maripol

#34. No matter how much (or how little) help someone provides, always say thanks. Thank yous are simple but important.

Beverly K. Bachel

#35. A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them. And the agent is really necessary to represent all of the business interests of the author.

Larry Kirshbaum

#36. Learning the way of grace is about truth. It's reconciling the truth, of both our own infinite value and of others' infinite value - despite our depths of
brokenness.

James Prescott

#37. You have to get Real, to get Healed.

Thakore Coco O'Neal

#38. Grace isn't meant to be fair, grace is meant to be good

James Prescott

#39. The biggest regrets people have aren't about what they did, but what they didn't do.

Beverly K. Bachel