Self Help Quotes - Page 10

• If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 27, 2015

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• It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.

  W. C. Fields

  Inspirational, Confidence, Self Esteem

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• You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

  Wayne Dyer

  Confidence, Lonely, Clever

  "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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• The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Regret, Men, Perfect

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• A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.

  James Allen

  Motivational, Strong, Men

  James Allen (2013). “As a Man Thinketh: The Book of Thoughts, Health and Body, Character, Purpose, Achievement, Visions and Ideals (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)”, p.23, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.

  Horace Mann

  Leadership, Helping Others, Highest

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• To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Thinking, Giving

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• To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.

  George Washington

  Helping, Impossible, Should

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.70, Rowman & Littlefield

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• During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

  Bernard Baruch

  Character, Technology, Thinking

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1970). “Baruch: My own story”

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• Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Life, Beautiful

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820). “Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems”, p.143

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• Men willingly believe what they wish.

  Julius Caesar

  Believe, Ignorance, Men

  Julius Caesar “Commentaries on the Gallic Wars”, Gottfried & Fritz

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• When you affirm your own Tightness in the universe, then you co operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You, being yourself, help others be themselves.

  Jane Roberts

  Being Yourself, Acceptance, Helping Others

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• I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying, 'How To Be Happy, by Stephen Fry: Guaranteed Success'. And people buy this huge book and it's all blank pages, and the first page would just say, 'Stop feeling sorry for yourself--and you will be happy.'

  Stephen Fry

  Sorry, Book, Self

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  To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Beauty

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• Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Truth, Lying, Deceiving Others

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

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• God will allow us to follow self-help, self-improvement programs until we have tried them all, until we finally come to the honest confession, ‘I can't do it. I can't be righteous in my own strength!’ It is then, when we admit our utter powerlessness, that we find hope. For it is then when the Lord intervenes to do a work that we could not do for ourselves.

  Chuck Smith

  Self, Helping, Honest

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• To say what we should be or do and not link it with a clear exposition of what God has done about our failure to be or do perfectly as He wills is to reject the grace of God and to lead people to lust after self-help and self-improvemen t in a way that, to call a spade a spade, is godless.

  Graeme Goldsworthy

  Self, People, Grace

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• One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

  Bernard Baruch

  Life, Positive, Forgiveness

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• Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.

  Eubie Blake

  Hate, Grateful, Good Luck

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• An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.

  Roger Ebert

  Philosophy, Book, Thinking

  Roger Ebert (2000). “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie”, p.207, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• And there is no use whatever, gentlemen, trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Helping Others, Help And Support, People

  "The Empire of Business".

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  The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Relationship, Happiness, Sympathy

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.58

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• Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

  Carrie Fisher

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another...The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness.

  M. Scott Peck

  Journey, Self, Answers

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