Help Yourself Quotes - Page 5

• Forgiving is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Pain, Forgiving, Way

  Lewis B. Smedes, Jeff Crosby (2007). “Days of Grace Through the Year”, p.237, InterVarsity Press

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• If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep this principle in mind: Become genuinely interested in other people.

  Dale Carnegie

  Relationship, Real, Helping Others

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really think it's important to help yourself with the technology if you want to feel better, but I am absolutely against any kind of monstrous cuts of the body, lifting that is beyond recognition, this kind of stuff.

  Marina Abramovic

  Cutting, Feel Better, Technology

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• When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.

  Richard Armour

  Ice Cream, Helping, Sometimes

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• And we all get mired in the bullshit, the personality quirks, the personality disorders (ours and everyone else's), the jealousy, the disappointment, the blocks, the financial struggle, our egos, I do it too, I do it too, but if you can't remember it is all about the work and nothing else then I can't help you and you can't help yourself and you will lose. I promise you. You will lose.

  Jami Attenberg

  Disappointment, Block, Struggle

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• In a team sport like basketball, every time you help somebody else, you help yourself.

  Pete Carril

  Leadership, Basketball, Sports

  Pete Carril, Dan White (2004). “The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril”, p.70, U of Nebraska Press

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• Shopping with friends is a great way of still enjoying the thrill of the chase without having to make a purchase. It can also be a real bonding opportunity. Helping your friend find something nice is just as rewarding as helping yourself.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Real, Nice, Opportunity

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• If you have enough strength to help yourself, you have enough strength to help those in need. Never pass up an opportunity.

  Austin Carlile

  Opportunity, Needs, Helping

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• It's pretty irrefutable that you can help yourself. I just don't believe in ultimatums.

  Christopher

  Believe, Helping, Don't Believe

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• When I break My Silence, the impact of My Love will be universal and all life in creation will know, feel and receive of it. It will help every individual to break himself free from his own bondage in his own way. I am the Divine Beloved who loves you more than you can ever love yourself. The breaking of My Silence will help you to help yourself in knowing your real Self.

  Meher Baba

  Real, Love You, Knowing

  Meher Baba, A. C. S. Chari (1969). “84 Questions & Answers on Avatar Meher Baba”

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• I imagine the wave of water colliding with the rock and spilling over the tile floor, collecting around my shoes. Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but I feel like when you believe that something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can’t help yourself.

  Veronica Roth

  Believe, Rocks, Shoes

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• When you read my texts, you saw a curt, miserable git. And you told me so. Maybe you're right. But you know what I saw when I read yours? - Sam No. And I don't want to know. - Poppy I saw a girl who races to help others but doesn't help herself. And right now you need to help yourself. No one should walk up the aisle feeling inferior or in a different league or trying to be something they're not. - Sam

  Sophie Kinsella

  Girl, Helping Others, Race

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• Been meddling, have you?” Royce asked, looking around at the hive of activity. “You must admit they didn’t have much in the way of a defense plan,” Hadrian said, pausing to wipe the sweat from his forehead. Royce smiled at him. “You just can’t help yourself, can you?

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Sweat, Hadrian, Defense

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• Don't mind all those people who say that you should be back to normal in a month or two. Grieving is all part of helping yourself anyway.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Grieving, Two, People

  Cecelia Ahern (2004). “PS, I Love You: A Novel”, p.21, Hachette UK

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• I can't help you if you won't help yourself.

  Amy Winehouse

  Helping, Ifs, I Can

  Song: Help Yourself, Album: Frank, 2003

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• Ah, but being in love made you mean and crazy. Love made you act like a fool even when you knew you were acting like a fool and couldn't help yourself from acting like a fool.

  Sandra Brown

  Crazy, Mean, Being In Love

  Sandra Brown (1984). “Bittersweet rain”

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• It will come with a rush and a roar and a shudder. It will come howling and laughing and shrieking and moaning. It will come so fast you can’t help yourself you will stretch out your arms to embrace it. You will feel it before it comes and you will tense yourself for acceptance and the earth which is your eternal bed will tremble at the moment of your union.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Acceptance, Laughing, Earth

  Dalton Trumbo (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.153, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• I feel like you can will yourself into a good space. Things that are meant to happen, will. If you believe in yourself enough, you can help yourself learn. You can inspire yourself in ways to discipline yourself to a point where you CAN become good enough.

  Curtis Jackson

  Believe, Space, Discipline

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• If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself.

  Robert Towne

  Thinking, People, Ears

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• Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you just as the highwayman’s gun. You must live … You can’t work for yourself … The factories, machinery, and tools belong to the employing class, so you must hire yourself out to that class in order to work and live. Whatever you work at, whoever your employer may be, it always comes to the same: you must workfor him. You can’t help yourself. You are compelled.

  Alexander Berkman

  Gun, Order, Class

  Alexander Berkman (2010). “Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism”, p.17, Lulu.com

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• Sometimes healing comes after helping someone that is going through the same trauma you went through. Help yourself by helping others.

  Ace Antonio Hall

  Healing, Helping Others, Helping Someone

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• Recognize that being one of the only black people in an organization, or just in a meeting, automatically makes you very visible. Use this to help yourself. Look at it as an opportunity, and leverage that opportunity by making a visible contribution.

  Kenneth I. Chenault

  Leadership, Opportunity, Organization

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• One pattern to help yourself fight the mad dash for the mirage of being done is to think of a good day’s work. Look at the progress of the day towards the end and ask yourself: 'Have I done a good day’s work?'

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Good Day, Fighting, Thinking

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• A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. Few things in life are better than seeing people realize their potential. If you invest in people by helping individuals improve themselves, showing them the way to their “right place”, they will never be the same again. And neither will you. It is impossible to help others without helping yourself.

  John C. Maxwell

  Successful, Helping Others, Things In Life

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• Helping others is like helping yourself.

  Henry Flagler

  Inspirational, Helping Others, Self Help

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