Top 100 Quotes About Self Help
#1. 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
#2. If you believe in living a respectable life, you believe in self-help which is the best help!
B.R. Ambedkar
#3. 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
#4. I'm creating a self help show called Self Talk. I'll insult myself for an hour then open phone lines to a fitness coach & my mother-in-law.
Ryan Lilly
#5. 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
#6. Memory enhancement self-help programs abound and promise improved memory performance by the utilization of any number of seemingly unique techniques focused on the context of how information is encoded.
David Perlmutter
#7. Self-Help Books of the Twentieth Century: Exploiting Hope and Fear," and
Margaret Atwood
#8. Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.
Hillary Clinton
#9. I never read a self-help book except for the Bible.
Jon Heder
#10. To have luck and fail to act on it is tantamount to not having luck at all. In fact, it was worse. Barnes thought back to his self-help manuals. They all proclaimed with compelling force the necessity of recognizing opportunity then seizing it when it stuck.
Joseph G. Peterson
#13. The self-help movement that began in the latter half of the twentieth century suffers particularly from this flaw, for the personal and interpersonal skills it seeks to cultivate are almost always designed to get us more of what we think we want, rather than to bring about a change of heart.
C. Terry Warner
#14. As the great self-help coach Tony Robbins says, "If you don't know what you want, the chances that you'll get it are extremely low." If
Ben Horowitz
#15. If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help.
George Carlin
#16. 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.
Geoffrey Wood
#17. 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.
Dennis Miller
#18. Everybody wants confidence but you don't find it in self help books. You find confidence in the Holy Spirit.
Rick Warren
#19. Helen makes a mental note to pick up a self help book the next time she was out. This was getting ridiculous.
Solange Nicole
#20. A perfect poem you can't pin down and say, 'This is exactly what it meant to me.' It's not a self-help manual.
Alice McDermott
#21. 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
#22. Where in the self-help section of Barnes and Noble does one find a guide on dealing with a supernatural stalker?
Cosmo Knox
#23. If the self-help books worked, it would be a shrinking industry not a growing one.
Steve Maraboli
#24. Zen is all about self-study/knowledge and self-help!
Mika.
#25. The new age self-help phenomenon is pretty mushy, but it's also very American. Our history is filled with traveling preachers and quack medicine and searches for the soul. I don't see this as a new thing. I think the new age is part of a phenomenon that's been there all along.
James Hillman
#26. You see, I have come to believe in self-help, individual initiative, the love of what you do, and the full development of all individuals. I am constantly disappointed by how little we expect of ourselves and of the world.
Hanif Kureishi
#27. Anyone can read a self-help book and start preaching. It takes a lot of courage (and everything else) to change your life before becoming a life coach.
Maddy Malhotra
#28. Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today.
Brendon Burchard
#29. Self Help: When you really stop and think about it, is there any other kind?
Evan Dorren
#30. It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one.
Walter Kirn
#31. I'm not that into reading. If I'm gonna read, I'm gonna read some cool sci-fi book or something, not some stupid self-help book.
Jon Heder
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. I look at every book as a self-help book.
Marc Maron
#35. You won't find your soul in a textbook, self-help book, or buy it in a store. Sometimes, it's just a matter of looking past the anger, regret, and envy to see its smiling face.
Charles F. Glassman
#36. Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses.
Harriet Lerner
#37. I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.
Lindsay Wagner
#38. Self-help courses will only help you if they teach you to pay attention to life itself.
Richard Rohr
#39. Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class - or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.
Francine Prose
#40. Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just is a dog.
Donald Miller
#41. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self.
Rick Warren
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.
Brian K. Vaughan
#45. The desire to be loved, to feel loved, is behind every diet, pill, surgery, and lie. It is behind each act of violence and every affair as well as each organized religion and every method of self-help.
Vironika Tugaleva
#46. 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
#47. A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section.
Steve Maraboli
#48. 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
#49. Any self-help program that discourages me from thinking for myself, that is, from tweaking what I've learned to understand myself is suspect. Growth is all about thinking creatively, and I can't very well do that if I take on the role of parrot.
Dannye Williamsen
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. The point is, you are capable of change! Life is what you make of it! Use this self-help program to make it all you want it to be. Don't spend your life waiting for your luck to change. Make your own good luck by changing the way you respond. Go for it! The rewards are immeasurable.
Jonathan Berent
#54. We are not called to give lifestyle tips or the self-help plumbing that today's worldly men and women crave. The Bible says the gospel is the "power of God for salvation to everyone who believes." (Romans 1:16b), so we must proclaim it.
Richard D. Phillips
#55. The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance ... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.
Marcus Garvey
#56. I didn't intend 'Hector' to be a self-help book when I first started writing. I wrote it as a little tale about a psychiatrist, like me, who sets off around the world in order to discover the vital ingredients for happiness.
Francois Lelord
#57. You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.
Bruce Lee
#58. relegated to a tireless search to find a church that preaches the Bible at all, as today's pulpits more commonly stream self-help infomercials which refuse to mention, let alone offer remedy for man's greatest issue: sin and man's need for redemption.
Jeff Kluttz
#59. One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking.
Julian Baggini
#60. To say what we should be or do and not link it with a clear exposition of what God has done about our failure to be or do perfectly as He wills is to reject the grace of God and to lead people to lust after self-help and self-improvemen t in a way that, to call a spade a spade, is godless.
Graeme Goldsworthy
#61. 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
#62. If we are not explicitly and regularly taught out of it, we will always turn the message of God's rescue operation into a message of self-help.
Michael S. Horton
#63. A self-help story about a man who overcomes circumstance by reminiscing over his own life's lessons. Inspired, he sets out at night on the gritty streets of New York City to capture the beauty of life thru his passion for photography.
Amazon
#64. 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
#65. I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.
Clarence Thomas
#66. 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
#67. If you have to learn it from a self-help book, you may be beyond help.
Wes Smith
#68. There is a lot of stigma and snobbiness about the self-help genre, and I can't vouch for everything out there, but for me, the idea of giving someone else the gift of inspiration and making them feel passionate and capable in an area of their life is the most incredible thing in the world.
Matthew Hussey
#69. 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
#70. Every religion, every program, every self-help book is about steps you have to take. Jesus is the only One who becomes the step - to take you.
Ann Voskamp
#72. 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
#74. 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
#75. There are two things essential if you want to enhance your Jedi self-confidence:
1/ belief that it is possible
2/ that self-help is the best help
Stephen Richards
#76. We must understand that the local church isn't a country club or a casual self-help group. It is God's holy temple, a congregation of redeemed saints and priests who are consecrated to God. It is God's lighthouse in a dark world. It is the pillar and support of the truth.
Alexander Strauch
#77. I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.
Jenna Fischer
#78. 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
#79. I am the first person to go to Barnes & Noble and buy the new self-help book. I like to fill out the surveys, then I get my friends' opinions on how I answered to see if I was being honest with myself or not.
Jessica Simpson
#80. Part of the problem with positive thinking, and many related approaches to happiness, is exactly this desire to reduce big questions to one-size-fits-all self-help tricks or ten point plans.
Oliver Burkeman
#81. 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
#82. Often, this cry for more practical preaching is the call of the old Adam for more self-help.
Michael S. Horton
#83. Jesus," he said, exasperated. "When we leave here, I'm stopping to buy you a self-help book.
Alison Bliss
#84. I began to fear that constant hoping might cause me to sacrifice today for the illusion of a better tomorrow. - The Last Self-Help Book You'll Ever Need
Paul Pearsall
#85. Boxing is just to introduce me to the struggle. Like, when I speak I draw people in the States to teach them various things or to give them dignity, pride and self-help. I have to help the dope and prostitution problem.
Muhammad Ali
#86. I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording artist - classics and romances, I just finished a sci-fi book, self help ... just all kinds of things.
Barbara Rosenblat
#87. Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help ...
Mahatma Gandhi
#88. 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
#89. Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.
Morarji Desai
#90. SELF HELP
Use the same amount of energy required to pull others down, to uplift yourself instead
Kamil Ali
Kamil Ali
#91. I'm going to include a self-help item here that is completely unrelated to this topic. I want you to eat some vegetables.
Phil Ebiner
#92. But with every step, I felt my anger falling way. Underneath that anger: fear. In the middle of one of her self-help phases, Ivy had once proclaimed that all anger was fear. I'd long since wondered what, if anything, was underneath all fear.
Maria Semple
#93. Pragmatism, consumerism, self-help moralism, and narcissism are simply the symptoms of a disease that is, at its heart, theological:
Michael S. Horton
#94. A self-help book can't really address a problem unless it's individualized. It's not going to talk about a globalized problem.
Hank Azaria
#95. This bastard was in a self-help program? For what? Square-jawed, cleft-chin sufferers? Handsome Bastards Anonymous?
Susan Juby
#96. 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
#97. The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.
J.G. Holland
#98. 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
#99. It's no secret that most memoirs are really self-help books in disguise.
Nathan Hill
#100. 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
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