Self Help Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

  Theodore Martin

  Men, Years, Perfection

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• One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.

  Brian Tracy

  Past, People, Accomplishment

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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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• I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.

  Clarence Thomas

  Teaching, Self, Helping

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• 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

  Distance, Book, Feel Better

  Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal”, p.14, Spiegel & Grau

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• 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

  Book, Self, Degrees

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• So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.

  Deborah Norville

  Self, Ideas, Helping

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• I never read a self-help book except for the Bible.

  Jon Heder

  Book, Self, Helping

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• 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

  Stupid, Book, Reading

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• Youve 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

  Book, Self, People

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• 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

  Depressing, Book, Self

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• God himself helps those who dare.

  Ovid

  Helping, Dare

  Ovid (1946). “Ovid: Metamorphoses”

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• To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Death

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• By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Motivational, Track, Self Improvement

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• Wisdom and power follow endurance and patience.

  Muhammad

  Endurance, Personal Power

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