Self Help Quotes - Page 4

• Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

  Les Brown

  Softball, Perfection, Excellence

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• The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.

  J. G. Holland

  Animal, Men, Self

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• One of the best places to start to turn your life around is by doing whatever appears on your mental "I should" list.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Lists

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 14, 2012

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• If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Giving Up, Self, Helping

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• The American people are doing their job today. They should be given a chance to show whether they wish to preserve the principles of individual and local responsibility and mutual self-help
  before they embark on what I believe to be a disastrous system. I feel sure they will succeed if given the opportunity.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Believe, Responsibility

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest.... But, in its less rigorous, popular forms, religion is about as intellectually challenging as the average self-help book. (Like personal development literature, mass market books about spirituality and religion celebrate emotionalism and denigrate reason. They elevate the "truths" of myths and parables over empiricism.) In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity but a frequent cause of it.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Book, Self, Average

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• The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific "truth." But what is the source of knowledge? Where do the laws that are to be tested come from? Experiment, itself, helps to produce these laws, in the sense that it gives us hints. But also needed is imagination to create from these hints the great generalizations--to guess at the wonderful, simple, but very strange patterns beneath them all, and then to experiment to check again whether we have made the right guess.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Math, Simple

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2015). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat”, p.45, Basic Books

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• Dance... enjoy each step along the way.

  Wayne Dyer

  Karma, Dance, Dancing

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• Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortablene ss directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being. See what I just did there? I saved you thousands of dollars on self-help books. If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.

  Amy Poehler

  Book, Feet, Self

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• Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today.

  Brendon Burchard

  Self, Coaching, Development

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• Do yourself and your family a favor: Decide right now that you will write a self-help book someday. I'm serious. A self-help book is a great way to capture what you think makes a good person, a good life and a good world. It's also a "forever document" that you can pass down to future generations. We need more people sharing positive messages and books with the world. Why not be one of those people?

  Brendon Burchard

  Good Life, Book, Writing

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• You have to be responsible for yourself, refer to yourself, develop yourself, help others, whatever it may be. So we shouldn't have an idea that the whole thing is to shatter ones ego.

  Robert Thurman

  Helping Others, Ideas, Ego

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Boxing is just to introduce me to the struggle. Like, when I speak I draw people in the States to teach them various things or to give them dignity, pride and self-help. I have to help the dope and prostitution problem.

  Muhammad Ali

  Struggle, Pride, Dope

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help.

  George Carlin

  Book, Reading, Self

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• Everybody wants confidence but you don't find it in self help books. You find confidence in the Holy Spirit.

  Rick Warren

  Book, Self, Want

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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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• It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one.

  Walter Kirn

  Self, Names, Wiping Out

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• Everything in life that's meaningful takes effort - takes vitality. You have to work at it. And God helps them who help themselves...help you.

  Jack LaLanne

  Meaningful, Effort, Vitality

  Source: aliveeastbay.com

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• Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed.

  Wendell Phillips

  Children, Government, Self

  Wendell Phillips (1863). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.307, Gale Cengage Learning

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• A self-help book can't really address a problem unless it's individualized. It's not going to talk about a globalized problem.

  Hank Azaria

  Book, Self, Addresses

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am embarrassed when people talk about the Covey Habits, and dislike the idea of being some sort of guru.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Success, Business

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• The new age self-help phenomenon is pretty mushy, but it's also very American. Our history is filled with traveling preachers and quack medicine and searches for the soul. I don't see this as a new thing. I think the new age is part of a phenomenon that's been there all along.

  James Hillman

  Thinking, Self, Medicine

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.

  Jim Rohn

  Business, Father, Taught

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 07, 2017

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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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