Top 76 Quotes About Helping Ourselves
#1. We come to realize that other people's welfare is just as important as our own. In helping them, we help ourselves. In helping ourselves, we help the world.
Pema Chodron
#2. When we grow in spiritual consciousness, we identify with all that is in the world there is no exploitation. It is ourselves we're helping, ourselves we're healing.
Govindappa Venkataswamy
#3. The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.
Gelek Rimpoche
#4. But, y'know, today I got a lot of help myself. There're tons of things we can't do ourselves, right? And that's why we're helped out. If someone, or something, can lend you a helping hand, great, I say! After all, we're all in this together!
Sakura Tsukuba
#5. Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
Horace Mann
#6. We have learned how to develop five-minute and even one-minute managers. But we would do better to ask ourselves what it takes to be an executive who helps build a better future.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#7. Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#8. To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.
Lewis Carroll
#9. Muse is going to be part of everyday life as an indispensable tool helping people overcome mental, physical and emotional barriers. It's going to allow us to free ourselves in ways we never thought possible.
Ariel Garten
#10. There is a natural and inviolable tendency in things to bloom into whatever they truly are in the core of their being. All we have to do is align ourselves with what wants to happen naturally and put in the effort that is our part in helping it happen.
David Richo
#11. When we serve others, we serve ourselves. Do not think, I will help others - think rather, I will help my own, my world, because I cannot otherwise be happy.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#12. Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
#13. Because when everything is said and done... the world runs on kindness. It simply has to, or we'd never be a able to bear ourselves. It might not seem so to you now, but it will when you're older." ~Ariel
Kathleen Glasgow
#14. If we can augment our gift giving by giving more of ourselves to those we love, all the time and in various ways, we will have a good chance of helping them and ourselves live happier, better lives.
Earl Nightingale
#15. Help does not come from anywhere outside - it comes only from within ourselves.
Abhijit Naskar
#16. Lent is a good time for sacrificing. Let us deny ourselves something every day to help others,
Pope Francis
#17. Selfishness is the root of all jealousy. When we are caught up thinking about ourselves, we can't think about anyone else.
Anna M. Aquino
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. What would the world look like if we asked ourselves the following more often; are our actions helping others find a way to feel more freer, more dignified and more beautiful?
Jacqueline Novogratz
#21. We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not ... You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world.
Chaim Weizmann
#22. Helping those less fortunate than us is a blessed opportunity to show thanks for the gifts of life that we ourselves enjoy.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#24. Nature compels us to recognize the fact of mutual dependence, each life necessarily helping the other lives who are linked to it. In the very fibers of our being, we bear within ourselves the fact of the solidarity of life.
Albert Schweitzer
#25. Psychoanalysis gets interesting when it shifts the focus from making us more intelligible to ourselves to helping us become more curious about how strange we really are. And so, I would argue, does art.
Maggie Nelson
#26. Leadership is not just a privilege, but a responsibility to which we commit ourselves to helping to elevate those around us.
Tanveer Naseer
#27. I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.
Benjamin Carson
#29. The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.
Elie Wiesel
#30. They wanted to teach us the meaning of x in relation to pi, as opposed to helping us better understand ourselves and each other. They wanted us to know when the Magna Carta was signed-never mind what it was-as opposed to discussing birth control.
Jay Asher
#31. Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?
William Blake
#32. Every time we help an animal, we are healing ourselves, over and over.
Elayne Boosler
#33. We must daily speak positivity into our life's surrounding ourselves with God fearing people along our journey, helping to lead us towards prosperity & the Promise Land.
Takina Cupp
#34. Adult women, all of us, have to come to grips with how we have been affected by gender norms, and how we have been silenced. We have to help our daughters. Understanding it within ourselves and helping our young girls stand up for themselves is one way.
Jane Fonda
#35. By helping others, we make ourselves better, and by helping others heal, we heal ourselves. I think we can do that on an individual level and a worldwide level. I hope people have a chance to give that a little bit of thought.
Charles Martin Smith
#36. That's what I've found through yoga: yoga helps us to sort of rewire the mind so that we can literally become more mindful of the conversation we're having on the back end, what we're telling ourselves.
MC Yogi
#37. The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
Honore De Balzac
#38. The U.S. has to realize it's got so much going for it. Let's just get ourselves to come together as a team - one team running the country, helping that country to get itself back on stable footing, which then cascades to the rest of the world.
Mary Callahan Erdoes
#39. If we want to be used for the benefit of mankind-helping the Lord with his mission-we must ourselves be in a position to be used by him.
Elaine A. Cannon
#40. Each one of us is finite, and if we can spread ourselves out in a way to inspire and help other people to be all they can be, I think that's so much more important than one person's glory.
Felicia Day
#41. A dojo [pracice hall] is a miniature cosmos where we make contact with ourselves - our fears, anxieties, reactions, and habits. It is an arena of confined conflict where we confront an opponent who is not an opponent but rather a partner engaged in helping us understand ourselves more fully.
Joe Hyams
#42. We're trained, in our culture, to take care of ourselves first. Even flight attendants tell you to put on your own oxygen mask before helping those around you. But they never tell you what happens afterwards. How do you live with yourself if you survive and the person next to you doesn't?
Tracy Weber
#43. It's going to be okay, Eric," Urte said, helping me sit up.
I shook my head. "Lying is my forte, Urte, not yours." (Eric.)
Shannon A. Thompson
#45. Success has nothing to do with what we accomplish for ourselves, but the amount of hard works we put forward to others
Diyar Harraz
#46. As we help others, we cannot help but help ourselves.
Ben Cohen
#47. God will never help us be anyone other than ourselves.
Joyce Meyer
#49. Ben Says: We can only help better humanity if we better ourselves first. Education, diligence, passion, charity~helping all we can, when we can...will go a long way towards making our world a better place.
Timothy Pina
Bullying Ben
Timothy Pina
#50. The Peace Panda Says: Change Ourselves First And Then We Can Start Helping To Change The World!
Timothy Pina
#51. We see ourselves as first helping to open up markets to competition.
Kenneth Lay
#52. So, it's important for us to acknowledge that we're prone to be conservative, and in turn surround ourselves with individuals who will help break down our conservatism.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#53. Obey the voice within - it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive
Kirk Douglas
#54. Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves.
Henry Ford
#56. Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.
Richard M. Nixon
#57. We in Los Angeles, who have ourselves been helped to stand up - to recover and rebuild after a disaster - want to help the families and communities of the Gulf Coast,.
Antonio Villaraigosa
#58. As we give of our time, talents and resources to tend the needs of the sick, offer food to the hungry and teach the dependent to stand on their own, we enrich ourselves spiritually beyond our ability to comprehend.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#59. The call now is for each of us to ask ourselves: are we doing all we can to help build the country of our dreams?
Nelson Mandela
#60. We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
Pema Chodron
#61. So most skeptics who criticize us are really just misinformed and kind of ignorant. They're just assuming something about us. We're quite critical ourselves, but we're here to help people.
Ryan Buell
#62. The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).
Friedrich Nietzsche
#63. If we stop thinking of ourselves and only of helping others, you will start to see a dramatic improvement in the suffering we are all going through.
Deepak Chopra
#64. When we help ourselves, we find moments of happiness. When we help others, we find lasting fulfillment.
Simon Sinek
#65. Purple puts us in touch with the part of ourselves that is regal. Purple is the queen in all women; it helps us keep our backs straight and heads held high.
Byllye Avery
#66. The help we give to others creates the ripple of good feeling we give to ourselves.
Gina Greenlee
#67. 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
#68. The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.
Dalai Lama
#69. We need to be our own guide. We can live a much more peaceful and happy life if we think about positive growth of ourselves and others, and its effects on the universe. -Hina Hashmi
Hina Hashmi
#70. I believe reading books is one of the best ways to gain real empathy for people different from ourselves, and helping boys develop empathy for girls is a cause worth fighting for.
Shannon Hale
#71. Women must commit to use our power-to on our own behalf so we can translate it into the power to help others and ourselves.
Gloria Feldt
#72. The job is, if we are willing to take it seriously, to help ourselves to be more perfectly what we are, to be more full, more actualizing, more realizing in fact, what we are in potentiality.
Abraham Maslow
#73. When we harm others we harm ourselves; when we help others we help ourselves.
Bryant McGill
#74. Finding voice is a socially responsible political act. We don't just do it for ourselves. And helping someone to find voice demands a spiritual partnership with that seeker. It's an exercise of compassion.
Mary Rose O'Reilley
#75. The healthiest and holiest people are the people who laugh at themselves the most. Failure helps us take God more seriously and ourselves less seriously.
Mark Batterson
#76. The more we help others, the more we help ourselves
Muhammad Ali
