Top 100 Self Help Book Quotes
#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. 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
#3. People hide the truth to protect those they love!
Craig Mercier
#4. The buying of a self-help book is the most desperate of all human acts. It means you've lost your mind completely: You've entrusted your mental health to a self-aggrandizing twit with a psychology degree and a yen for a yacht.
Cynthia Heimel
#5. Pearsall is not a doctor, or not, at least, one of the medical variety. He is a doctor of the variety that gets a Ph.D. and attaches it to his name on self-help book covers.
Mary Roach
#6. 3,2,1 ... Launch! A lot of preparation goes into launching a rocket ship. No short cuts or cheating will get that rocket to its destination. A lot of hard work and dedication goes into every launch. What are you doing to launch? Are you doing the proper work needed? Are you dedicated?
Robert D. Kintigh
#7. Do not work at Walmart expecting to receive your salary from Microsoft.
Patience Johnson
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. I made the same mistake that people have been making since the beginning of time, thinking that you can change yourself just by going somewhere else. Meu Deus, I sound like a self-help book.
Luiza Sauma
#11. 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
#12. To hell with what anyone thinks about your life, but you should know what you think about it.
Abby Fabiaschi
#13. You cannot simply tap your creative nature once and then expect to be done with it. It is a lifelong process: a continual commitment to being open to possibility, trusting your instincts, experimenting, taking risks, and revising.
Fran Sorin
#14. What if the longer we don't deal with the memories we are haunted by, the more these memories, like long-ignored cavities, become not only painfully sensitive, but require root canal?
Lauren Handel Zander
#15. See, don't just look. Your partner is so much more than their appearance. It's how kind their heart is, how lovely they smile, how much they care and have compassion, how generous and giving they are which becomes much more attractive.
Suzan Battah
#16. We are all colorless and invisible; until you color yourself love you will not be seen.
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Anthony Sinclair
#17. One Day, I Will Be Successful . . .
Un Dia Tendre Exito . . .
Haresh Buxani
#18. Jeremy tried to be an interesting person. The trouble was that he was the kind of person who, having decided to be an interesting person, would first of all try to find a book called How to Be An Interesting Person and then see whether there were any courses available.
Terry Pratchett
#19. It is imperative for our mental health that we surround ourselves with like minded people.
Rob Martin
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#24. The truth is, I can't read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better.
Marc Maron
#25. Life does not need to be perfect for us to enjoy a wonderful day - Page 105
Haresh Buxani
#26. Lift your eyes and look on the FIELDS (Jon 4:35),there are viable opportunities
Ikechukwu Joseph
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. The good thing about a self-help book is that if you misunderstand something then it won't mock you.
Stephen Richards
#30. You are a goddess. You are a catch. You are, like, the outcome of every self-help book ever written.
Georgia Clark
#32. Carlin does a rare thing for a self-help book: gives useful guidance by supplying readers with the tools necessary for change." --Barry Silverstein, "Foreword Reviews
Barry Silverstein
#33. Each store will fulfil some of your needs, but no individual store can meet all of your needs. Learning how to set realistic expectations now and in future relationships requires you to examine each of the existing stores to see what they can offer.
Janet Crain
#34. Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.
Kevin Smith
#35. Beware of opportunities that are inspired by inordinate ambition or greed and not God-inspired. They are road blocks and distractions on your way to godly fulfillments
Ikechukwu Joseph
#36. Always try to fix what is broken so that when the blessings come, you will be able to receive it. This generation does a lot of right things for wrong reasons.
Patience Johnson
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Rhonda Wilson
#38. Self-discovery means learning to live free!
Tae Yun Kim
#39. If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?
George Carlin
#44. My course, navigating the sea of life, begins with a goal sighted in the lens of my telescope.
Celeste Cooper
#45. Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy!
Tae Yun Kim
#46. The shaping of character mimics the smallest detail of habit; humans are creatures that learn from observation. Each little thing you do, and each thing you allow yourself to become desensitized to matters. They create you - whether you know it consciously or not.
Grace Sara
#47. I am fortunate to be a resemblance, rather than a replication of who I was yesterday.
Rob Martin
#48. My fear of abandonment is exceeded only by my terror of intimacy.
Ethlie Ann Vare
#49. Coming into your powers can be a very confusing time. Perhaps there is a book on the subject. If you like, we can go see Marian.
Yeah, right. Choices and Changes. A Modern Girl's Guide to Casting. My Mom Wants to Kill Me: A Self-Help Book For Teens.
Kami Garcia
#50. When the world kicks your ass, don't step in line.
book: stuff i think about
Sondra Faye
#51. Success is not the end of the journey. It is the beginning of the expression of your infinite potential.
Sakshi Chetana
#52. Being able to tell the truth about our own lack of personal integrity has integrity to it. The key to being able to deal with and lighten up about our own humanity is to get wholly honest about our dishonesty.
Lauren Handel Zander
#54. Peacefully and lovingly accepting who we are today requires honestly looking at our past.
Rob Martin
#56. Our state of mind, our state of being, and our outlook on life is contagious.
Rob Martin
#57. If we're not the one driving our dreams forward, who is? If we don't figure out how to change jobs, eat healthily, date, fall and stay in love, who will come save us? No one. But, then again, no one should, right? The are, after all, our dreams.
Lauren Handel Zander
#58. Our foibles, issues, lies, and idiosyncrasies are not the problem, I swear. Our hiding them is. It's what leaves us not trusting each other and not developing ourselves to become trustworthy.
Lauren Handel Zander
#59. 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
#60. 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
#62. Perhaps you're not finished with your story, and who knows if you'll ever finish it or not. Honestly, it's not that important.
Miguel Ruiz
#63. Jesus," he said, exasperated. "When we leave here, I'm stopping to buy you a self-help book.
Alison Bliss
#64. 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
#65. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. Where Eckhart Tolle meets Jack Kerouac meets Buddha. A free consciousness expanding book to kill Ego, sexual boredom & lack of excitement in life.
Gregor Reti
#71. Respect the past, and prepare for the future by taking action in the present.
Rob Martin
#72. Look. The world is full of liars, and it's time someone admitted it, shed a light on it, and lightened up about it.
Lauren Handel Zander
#73. 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
#74. Everything we encounter can have a positive influence in shaping our life when we adopt a lens of Gratitude.
Rob Martin
#75. 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
#76. No one gets out of this life alive.
So leave a footprint of your choice.
You are writing your epitaph.
You are writing it now!
Life is a process, not a goal.
Live it now, or you will miss it!
We have time to spend and no time to waste.
Charles Franklin
#77. 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
#78. As Samson demonstrated, going bald ruins lives.
Brendan Jack
#79. 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
#80. If you have to learn it from a self-help book, you may be beyond help.
Wes Smith
#81. 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
#82. We must therefore be willing to get shaken up, to submit ourselves to the dark blossomings of chaos, in order to reap the blessings of growth.
Gregg Levoy
#83. 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
#84. Sometimes our Biggest Nightmare turns out to be our Biggest Gift. And it all comes down to our attitude. Life will throw us curve balls and disappointments, even heartbreak. But ultimately we can choose if we're going to be Bitter or Better for the experience.
Kathryn Orford
#85. Ever notice how on a bad day you never deserve a salad? I mean how long do you think your bad mood would really last if you only fed your brat celery? How many bad days would your brat tolerate if it no longer got rewarded a drink, a cigarette, or an entire Netflix series on the couch for it.
Lauren Handel Zander
#86. 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
#89. May our spirit fill us with understanding of victory and defeat, the gift of collaboration, the wisdom to choose the right path, and opportunities that inspire hope.
Celeste Cooper
#91. You Have the Power to Fulfill Your Dreams!
Tae Yun Kim
#92. Polygamy simply says, "You are not enough.
Benyf
#94. Don't let hollow heroes distract you from saving yourself.
Nikki Rowe
#95. When confronted with challenge,I discover my inner strength.
Celeste Cooper
#96. Did you ever notice that most of us relate to our lives like we have no control or say over them? Especially in areas where we're not proud. We speak about ourselves like we're reporting on the weather, making sweeping generalizations...And boy do we ever believe our own 'forecasts.
Lauren Handel Zander
#97. Happiness and achieving our dreams is a matter of believing it is possible and having a positive frame of mind.
Rob Martin
#98. 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
#99. Don't be so focused on the past or future situations that you overlook the beauty of the present moment that is NOW.
Excerpt from "Living in Light, Love & Truth". (Page 29).
Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos
#100. Success in life is about being lucky - ask any failure!
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