Self Help Quotes - Page 5

• Self-help is the best help

  Aesop

  Life, Self, Fables

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.128, GENERAL PRESS

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• i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge energy -speed of light power- to break the gravitational pull. How many of us ever get free of our orbit? We tease ourselves with fancy notions of free will and self-help courses that direct our lives. We believe we can be our own miracles, and just a lottery win or Mr.right will make the world new.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Believe, Winning, Past

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• It is one thing to be a man's wife - quite another to be the mother of his children. In fact, once you become a mother, being a wife seems like a game you once played or a self-help book you were overly impressed with as a teenager that on second reading is puffy with common ideas. This was one of the many things I had learned since crossing over into the middle place - that sliver of time when childhood and parenthood overlap.

  Kelly Corrigan

  Mother, Children, Teenager

  Kelly Corrigan (2008). “The Middle Place”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Girl, Mom, Book

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• Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but all of this probably will not happen without personal growth.

  Jim Rohn

  Believe, Growth, Assets

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• I look at every book as a self-help book.

  Marc Maron

  Book, Self, Looks

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• To become financially independent you must turn part of your income into capital; turn capital into enterprise; turn enterprise into profit; turn profit into investment; and turn investment into financial independence.

  Jim Rohn

  Independent, Independence, Income

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 23, 2016

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• Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.

  Jim Rohn

  Philosophy, Work Out, Factors

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 05, 2017

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• Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.

  B. C. Forbes

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Men

  B. C. Forbes (2005). “Keys to Success”, p.7, Lulu.com

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• Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Loss, Self, Oneness

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). “Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”, p.76, Macmillan

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• We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.

  Napoleon Hill

  Thinking, Vibrations, Environment

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.47, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 04, 2016

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• I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wisdom, Determination, Goal

  Napoleon Hill, Judith Williamson (2016). “Do It Now!”, p.155, Jaico Publishing House

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• We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don't feel that anymore

  Oprah Winfrey

  Success, Business, Stress

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• Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't become much.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 12, 2016

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• Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, Motivational, Mean

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• Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?

  Jim Rohn

  Mistake, Positivity, Achievement

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 22, 2015

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• The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Way, Our Lives

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• We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Eye, Glimpse, Hostile

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.79, BookBaby

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• Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

  Oscar Wilde

  Kings, People, Birth

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.823, GENERAL PRESS

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• You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

  John Ruskin

  Knowledge, Helping Others, People

  John Ruskin (2015). “Sesame and Lilies”, p.93, John Ruskin

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• Improve your business, your life, your relationships, your finances and your health. When you do the whole world improves.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Business, Self Improvement, World

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• Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature begin to well up of its own accord but its steady unchanging character itself helps spontaneously to repel all disturbing thoughts.

  Paul Brunton

  Character, Meditation, Serenity

  Paul Brunton (1988). “Advanced contemplation: The peace within you”, Larson Pubn

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• Perhaps the best place to begin with an integral approach to business is with.. oneself. In the Big Three of self, culture, and world, integral mastery starts with self. How do body and mind and spirit operate in me? How does that necessarily impact my role in the world of business? And how can I become more conscious of these already operating realities in myself and in others?

  Ken Wilber

  Business, Reality, Self

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• Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Motivation, Self

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