Self Help Quotes - Page 8

• The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way.

  Herbert Hoover

  Successful, Numbers, Agency

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates

  Samuel Smiles

  Self, Roots, Growth

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.15

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• I learned how to believe in myself. Learned how to set goals, you know, self help books man. I just read every single one I can get a hold of, and I still do.

  Drew Carey

  Book, Believe, Men

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• If you have to learn it from a self-help book, you may be beyond help.

  Wes Smith

  Book, Self, May

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• I do believe in self-help.

  Clint Eastwood

  Believe, Self, Helping

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• The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

  John Galsworthy

  New Beginnings, Humans, Beginnings And Endings

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.4361, Delphi Classics

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  I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.

  Cary Grant

  Writing, Self Improvement, Wanted

  "Quotable Cary". www.pbs.org. May 25, 2005.

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• When a man has reverence for life, he will never do anything to harm, hinder or destroy life. Instead he bends every effort to help life to fulfill its highest destiny. He strives to maintain, enhance and assist life to make the most of itself.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Destiny, Effort, Reverence For Life

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• 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

  Book, Self, Noble

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• Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.

  Kevin Smith

  Book, Self, Helping

  Interview with Ashley Shaw, www.amc.com. 2012.

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• Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

  Bill Watterson

  Letting Go, Thinking, Play

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight; that he shall not be a mere passenger, but shall do his share in the work that each generation of us finds ready to hand; and, furthermore, that in doing his work he shall show, not only the capacity for sturdy self-help, but also self-respecting regard for the rights of others.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Rights, Self, Hands

  Speech, New York, N.Y., 11 Nov. 1902

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• How can there be self-help groups?

  Steven Wright

  Self, Groups, Helping

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• Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

  David Levithan

  Self, Bookstores, Helping

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.3, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

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• Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 28, 2015

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• Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

  Henry J. Kaiser

  Inspirational, Motivational, Opportunity

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Life And Love, Long

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 28, 2016

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• Trust the Universe. Trust and believe and have faith. I truly had no idea how I was going to bring the knowledge of The Secret onto the movie screen. I just held to the outcome of the vision, I saw the outcome clearly in my mind, I felt it with all my might, and everything that we needed to create The Secret came to us.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Wisdom, Business, Believe

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Conscious business.. business that is conscious of inner and outer worlds.. would therefore be business that takes into account body, mind, and spirit in self, culture, and nature. Put differently, conscious business would be mindful of the way that the spectrum of consciousness operates in the Big Three worlds of self and culture and nature.

  Ken Wilber

  God, Business, Self

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• In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem. There is the 'edge of history.' There would be a real New Age.

  Ken Wilber

  Real, Self Esteem, Ego

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.143, Shambhala Publications

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• Hold a true friend with both your hands.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

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• Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

  Robert J. LeRoy

  Motivational, Baseball, Men

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• Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Happiness, Squirrels, Self

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• People have one of two extreme reactions to my book. They either throw it across the room, or they rush out and buy 10 copies. The message I'm giving out, that what we think about becomes true for us, and negative thoughts mean good things don't happen, isn't always easy for some people to take.

  Louise Hay

  Book, Mean, Thinking

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