They Can Help Themselves Quotes

#1. Problems can only be solved by the people who have them. You have to try and coax them and love them into seeing ways in which they can help themselves.

John Harvey-Jones

#2. The poor need the motivation, the incentives, the skills, the education so they can help themselves.

John M. Perkins

#3. A lot of men tend to want "models"
I tell men, unless they look like a model themselves, they can't expect to land one.

Trisha Ventker

#4. Girls need to be strong and know how to stand up for themselves. Definitely having friends is a big part of it, so that they can help you through that, and a strong family.

Jenna Boyd

#5. When you love someone, you owe it to them to help them be the best version of themselves that they can be.

Colleen Hoover

#6. It is a rare and high privilege to be in a position to help people understand the differences that they can make not only in their own lives but in the lives of others by simply giving of themselves.

Helen Boosalis

#7. When we are shining in our inspiration, those around us shine, too. When someone sees us in an inspired moment, they can't help but to light up with inspiration themselves.

Elaina Marie

#8. If we really want children to grow into independent and resourceful adults, we should stop pouring their milk as soon as they have learned to pour it themselves and stop fastening their buttons as soon as they can fasten them without help.

Maria Montessori

#9. In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature . They can't help it.

Carl Sagan

#10. Sometimes legends find themselves remembered more for what they have not done than for their accomplishments. But those resume gaps can also help drive them to achieve even greater things in new arenas.

Don Yaeger

#11. The young can't help playacting; themselves incomplete, they are thrust by life into a completed world where they are compelled to act fully grown. They therefore adopt forms, patterns, models - those that are in fashion, that suit, that please - and enact them.

Milan Kundera

#12. By giving children lots of affection, you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away.

Wayne Dyer

#13. Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.

Maria Montessori

#14. There are some people who you've got to stay away from. They can't help themselves; they are just genetically programmed to screw you over.

Mindy Quigley

#15. One of the greatest things you can do to help others is not just to share and give what you have, but to help them discover what they have within themselves to help themselves.

Rita Zahara

#16. If we pick a fight, then we're just as bad as them. Combat should be used just to help people who can't defend themselves, period."
"Well, if I don't fight back and they pound on me, then I'm one of the people I should be defending.

Tamora Pierce

#17. Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world, and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills.

Charles Platt

#18. Telling the whole truth and nothing but is the ultimate taking care of yourself. I can't tell you how many clients of mine, once they clean up their lie list and resolve the big ones, cure themselves of their own depression.

Lauren Handel Zander

#19. Why not allow patrons to comment on directors' decisions, vote on costume design, listen to dancers' conversations, volunteer to help out in ways beyond just writing a check? They can see themselves as co-producers, not just bystanders.

Chris Elam

#20. Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few sentences are rocketing down the swiftest and most direct route to the all-you-can-eat comedian-and-talk-show-host buffet.

Henry Rollins

#21. People seem to have an impressive capacity to change themselves if you believe in them, if you tell them they can and give them some help in doing so.

William R. Miller

#22. Because of our library system anyone in America can educate themselves in any field they desire. If they are confused, librarians (that without exception in my forty-seven years experience with them) actually want to help; they take the time to try and get whatever is needed. For free. For anybody.

Nevada Barr

#23. Engaged, productive employees do not work in a vacuum. They need workplaces that help them bring out the best in themselves - mosh pits of creativity where energy and inspiration can flow freely.

Carson Tate

#24. Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.

Zaha Hadid

#25. "Save more tomorrow" is a nudge to help people do what they know they want to do, which is save more, but they can't bring themselves to save more now. Just like many of us are planning to go on diets next month, or maybe in two months, certainly not tonight.

Richard Thaler

#26. Self-esteem doesn't come simply from dressing well, but they are both something we can control. It's a missed opportunity when women say they don't have the money, figure, etc., because style is such a way to help cultivate the way women feel about themselves.

Stacy London

#27. God's people need to study the prophetic Scriptures so they can both be prepared themselves and help others prepare for His coming.

Tim LaHaye

#28. There are plenty of people dragging themselves miserably through the world, because they are clogged and fettered with work for which they have no fitness ... I can't help believing that nothing is better than to find one's work early and hold fast to it, and put all one's heart into it.

Sarah Orne Jewett

#29. I can afford to take a risk in my life. Only the insecure cannot afford to risk failure. The secure can be honest about themselves. They can admit failure. They are able to seek help and try again. They can change

John C. Maxwell

#30. See how people smile when they see a butterfly? They can't help themselves. Butterflies are joy with wings.

Mary Alice Monroe

#31. I've always been very bonded to animals - more so than most people. (laughs) I don't think that they can defend themselves, so we have to help them.

Jennie Garth

#32. This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody's doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.

John Darnielle

#33. Frightened people live in their own special hell. You could say they make it themselves, but they can't help it. It's the way they're built. They deserve sympathy and compassion.

Stephen King

#34. I'd like to be out in the city every day, listening to what people are saying and asking about what they need. I'd like to inspire others by doing as much as I can to help people who are trying to make a better life for themselves and others.

Chirlane McCray

#35. I think the single biggest turn off is people who think that they need money and they need all these people around them so if they get the money they can just buy all the things they need to help the company ... [without] hav[ing] to put in the work themselves.

Daymond John

#36. Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

Rush Limbaugh

#37. God rescues sinners, losers, victims - those who know they can't help themselves.

Preston Sprinkle

#38. I've been a therapist for more than forty years and certainly there is a place for "wise elders" in the healing process. But most people, most of the time, can heal themselves and those they love, with the help of their family, friends, and community.

Jed Diamond

#39. Because when you love someone, you owe it to them to help them be the best version of themselves that they can be. And as much as it crushes me to admit this, the best version of you doesn't include me.

Colleen Hoover

#40. Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Stephen Covey

#41. Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do ... The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.

Baltasar Gracian

#42. Animals have always been a passion of mine, being able to help them because they can't help themselves, and I think that people have treated them so badly over the years and it's just not fair. It's something I feel like I can help make a difference.

Shannon Elizabeth

#43. What I'm trying to tell you is that there are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.

W. Somerset Maugham

#44. My fans are sexy. Yes they are. They can't help themselves. It is just how they do.

Justin Bieber

#45. Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the precious habitat in which that beauty can flourish.

William Morris

#46. We make butterflies by feeding caterpillars, not by trying to paste wings on them. Kids need to like themselves the way they are, and we can help them develop a positive self-image.

Louise Hart

#47. There are people who are excitable by nature and allow themselves to become angry for the most trivial of reasons. Judo can help such people learn to control themselves. Through training, they quickly realize that anger is a waste of energy, that it has only negative effects on the self and others.

Kano Jigoro

#48. God helps those who realize that they can't help themselves.

Preston Sprinkle

#49. You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves.

Elizabeth Taylor

#50. The ECK books are simply to show people how to go inside themselves, into the pureness of their heart, where they can get answers directly from the Inner Master about things of a spiritual nature, insights to help them in their life.

Harold Klemp

#51. Making women the sexual gatekeepers and telling men they just can't help themselves not only drives home the point that women's sexuality is unnatural, but also sets up a disturbing dynamic in which women are expected to be responsible for men's sexual behavior.

Jessica Valenti

#52. Its imposible to have real friendship when no one feels like they can accept help or even talk about themselves.

Veronica Roth

#53. I don't want people who are in poverty, in pain, or suffering, to suffer because it's for their own good and they can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I want to help them. I want us all to help them.

Penn Jillette