Self Help Quotes

“If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.”

“To help other people, you've got to be able to help yourself. You go to a psychiatrist, and they're on this Prozac, Effexor, and antidepressants, you may have picked the wrong person. If you go to somebody who's broke who's selling you financial services, that might not be a good thing. You go to somebody who's fat to help you lose weight... And a lot of people ironically do these types of things.”

“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.”

“The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of helping them to help themselves.”

“If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.”

“Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.”

“Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.”

“Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.”

“Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.”

“Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.”

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

“If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?”

“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.”

“I do believe in self-help.”

“You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.”

“Ultimately the greatest help is self-help.”

“I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”

“Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.”