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Self-help aphorisms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Self-help great quotes, a self-guide series of thoughts and aphorisms that can certainly be useful for the personal growth and the achievement of your goals.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Victorian Age is important not only in itself but also in its effects and its consequences which still mark our present times. Victorian were certainly class-conscious, but the vast wealth produced by the Industrial Revolution enabled people of all classes to improve their social position. One of the most popular books of the 19th century was Samuel Smiles Self-Help, published in 1859, which claimed that success was the product of four virtues, thrift, character, self-help and duty. Dickens novels are also filled with characters aspiring to better themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

Self-help or self-improvement is a self-guided series of thoughts and actions that can certainly be useful for the personal growth, from an economic, intellectual or emotional point of view. Good quotes and aphorisms can function as a strong stimulus to think and meditate about the right actions to do for our betterment.<\/span><\/p>\n

From a psychological perspective the term self-help is associated with actions and interventions that a person can take on their own or with guided literature, as opposed to working with a clinician. Self-help can help you think about your goals with a big picture view. It encourages you to, for example, outline your short-term and long-term goals, and whether they are realistic and achievable. Self-help can also help you be more systematic in the way you approach the changes you want to see. For starters, making a list of the benefits of achieving your goals can be motivational, and setting a time frame for meeting both short-term and long-term goals helps, too.<\/span><\/p>\n

Self-help is the best help.<\/span>
\nAmerican Proverb (Sayings of American origin)<\/span><\/p>\n

Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.<\/span>
\nJean Fontaine<\/span><\/p>\n

The codfish lays ten thousand eggs. The homely hen lays one. Codfish never cackles to tell you what she has done. And so we scorn the codfish, while the humble hen we prize, which only goes to show you that it pays to advertise!<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.<\/span>
\nBruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Bruce<\/a>
Bruce Lee self-help quote<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that’s the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go. <\/span>
\nJason Mraz<\/span><\/p>\n

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.<\/span>
\nErnest Hemingway<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.<\/span>
\nJim Rohn<\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately the greatest help is self-help.<\/span>
\nBruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

You can\u2019t be happy unless you\u2019re unhappy sometimes.<\/span>
\nLauren Oliver<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m really wary of self-help books. <\/span>
\nDarin Strauss<\/span><\/p>\n

I do believe in self-help. <\/span>
\nClint Eastwood<\/span><\/p>\n

I do not believe in making the right decision, I make a decision and make it right.<\/span>
\nMuhammad Ali Jinnah<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s really a wonder that I haven\u2019t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.<\/span>
\nAnne Frank<\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t cry because it\u2019s over, smile because it happened.<\/span>
\nDr. Seuss<\/span><\/p>\n

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.<\/span>
\nTom Bodett<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve experienced several different healing methodologies over the years – counseling, self-help seminars, and I’ve read a lot – but none of them will work unless you really want to heal. <\/span>
\nLindsay Wagner<\/span><\/p>\n

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I’ve just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I’ve read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that. <\/span>
\nJenna Fischer<\/span><\/p>\n

What annoys me about most self-help books is that they have no tragic sense. They have no sense that life is fundamentally incomplete rather than accidentally incomplete. <\/span>
\nAlain de Botton<\/span><\/p>\n

A perfect poem you can’t pin down and say, ‘This is exactly what it meant to me.’ It’s not a self-help manual. <\/span>
\nAlice McDermott<\/span><\/p>\n

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The one genre I’m not really into: self-help books. <\/span>
\nMichiko Kakutani<\/span><\/p>\n

I went through a phase in my 20s when I was overdosing on self-help books, so it was really refreshing to read ‘The Alchemist’ because it was a novel, but it still had the same wisdom, wasn’t patronising and didn’t tell you how you should live your life. <\/span>
\nTamzin Outhwaite<\/span><\/p>\n

Self-help is something that I’ve always been into. I thought I was going to be a psychiatrist. <\/span>
\nCharlamagne tha God<\/span><\/p>\n

I was inspired by self-help books. <\/span>
\nRudy Ruettiger<\/span><\/p>\n

Work-life balance is not just a buzzy, self-help term that real business people laugh at. You need it. <\/span>
\nStephanie Ruhle<\/span><\/p>\n

My interest in self-help began when I was a child in the Seventies. My mum had a book she would consult regularly: ‘Passages’ by Gail Sheehy, which deals with the challenging stages of growing up. <\/span>
\nSusanna Reid<\/span><\/p>\n

I didn’t intend ‘Hector’ to be a self-help book when I first started writing. I wrote it as a little tale about a psychiatrist, like me, who sets off around the world in order to discover the vital ingredients for happiness. <\/span>
\nFrancois Lelord<\/span><\/p>\n

One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking. <\/span>
\nJulian Baggini<\/span><\/p>\n

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.<\/span>
\nChuck Palahniuk<\/span><\/p>\n

Our thoughts make us what we are.<\/span>
\nDale Carnegie<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.<\/span>
\nDale Carnegie<\/span><\/p>\n

Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own.<\/span>
\nBruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.<\/span>
\nCorrie ten Boom<\/span><\/p>\n

If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it\u2019s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.<\/span>
\nDalai Lama XIV<\/span><\/p>\n

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

How would your life be different if\u2026You stopped worrying about things you can\u2019t control and started focusing on the things you can.<\/span>
\nSteve Maraboli<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not time to worry yet.<\/span>
\nHarper Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.<\/span>
\nAna Monnar<\/span><\/p>\n

The more we value things, the less we value ourselves.<\/span>
\nBruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Franklin<\/span><\/p>\n

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were.<\/span>
\nJodi Picoult<\/span><\/p>\n

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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. \u201cNever worry about your heart till it stops beating.<\/span>
\nE.B. White<\/span><\/p>\n

Worry is a misuse of the imagination.<\/span>
\nDan Zadra<\/span><\/p>\n

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear.<\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.<\/span>
\nElbert Hubbard<\/span><\/p>\n

Worrying about it takes precious time and attention away from your priorities and increases your feelings of dissatisfaction about life.<\/span>
\nChristina Winsey-Rudd<\/span><\/p>\n

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.<\/span>
\nWilliam James<\/span><\/p>\n

I try to only worry about things I have control over.<\/span>
\nSteve Nash<\/span><\/p>\n

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. if encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.<\/span>
\nArthur Somers Rache<\/span><\/p>\n

I have no regrets. I wouldn\u2019t have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.<\/span>
\nIngrid Bergman<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m not a great believer in self-help. <\/span>
\nDaniel Kahneman<\/span><\/p>\n

All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I don’t read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don’t read self-help books because I don’t believe in shortcuts and loopholes. <\/span>
\nIsabel Allende<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything I’ve ever taught in terms of self-help boils down to this – I cannot believe people keep paying me to say this – if something feels really good for you, you might want to do it. And if it feels really horrible, you might want to consider not doing it. Thank you, give me my $150. <\/span>
\nMartha Beck<\/span><\/p>\n

Don \u2018t hurry. Don\u2019t worry. You\u2019re only here for a short visit. So don\u2019t forget to stop and smell the roses.<\/span>
\nWalter Hagen<\/span><\/p>\n

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual. <\/span>
\nSamuel Smiles<\/span><\/p>\n

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge. <\/span>
\nPaulo Coelho<\/span><\/p>\n

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality. <\/span>
\nMohsin Hamid<\/span><\/p>\n

I dislike the word ‘self-help.’ Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help. <\/span>
\nDeepak Chopra<\/span><\/p>\n

Even though it doesn’t look like it, I run. On a treadmill. And I bounce around to all the songs on my iPod – the Pixies, Wagner, Richard and Linda Thompson, even books on tape. Just not self-help ones. <\/span>
\nBill Hader<\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span>
\nWalter Kirn<\/span><\/p>\n

How any person decides to emphasize strengths and mitigate weaknesses is something people have to figure out for themselves. I’m wary of the self-help literature that suggests there are certain rules. I’m very happy for people to look at my story and say it’s possible to achieve many things. <\/span>
\nDaniel Tammet<\/span><\/p>\n

I consider the indiscriminate propagation of self-help to be morally unacceptable… self-help is the opposite of autonomous or vernacular life. <\/span>
\nIvan Illich<\/span><\/p>\n

I go to a lot of self-help groups in the day, and then I can sleep pretty well at night. <\/span>
\nAndy Biersack<\/span><\/p>\n

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I never read a self-help book except for the Bible. <\/span>
\nJon Heder<\/span><\/p>\n

While I ridicule books of self-help, I’m also quite susceptible to them. They help simplify things. <\/span>
\nAmitava Kumar<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m not a fan of self-help books – how can something be ‘self-help’ if the book itself is purportedly helping you? <\/span>
\nHarlan Coben<\/span><\/p>\n

I can’t really stand self-help stuff myself. <\/span>
\nMark Manson<\/span><\/p>\n

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it. <\/span>
\nKevin Smith<\/span><\/p>\n

I have had moments where I’ve had mental-health issues and I’ve felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help. <\/span>
\nMike White<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m really into Deepak Chopra and self-help books. <\/span>
\nOrianthi<\/span><\/p>\n

I went to an extreme for literary purposes because I felt all the self-help books out there were so gooey and Pollyanna-ish and nauseating. It was making me angry. <\/span>
\nRobert Greene<\/span><\/p>\n

Many people come to self-help material because they feel like something is wrong with them or the way they are. The problem is that anything that tells you how to improve your life is also implying that there is something inherently wrong with you the way you are. <\/span>
\nMark Manson<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don’t read self-help books because I don’t believe in shortcuts and loopholes. <\/span>
\nIsabel Allende<\/span><\/p>\n

Many self-help books give you these neat, tidy formulas that are really illusions. They dupe people into thinking, “Well if I can just do that, then everything’s going to be okay.” My work differs in that I don’t offer quick solutions and simple explanations. <\/span>
\nJohn Bradshaw<\/span><\/p>\n

I recommend anybody go to a bookstore, go down the self-help or new-age section, and just walk those aisles. See what book jumps out at you; there’s a good chance it’s a book you need in your life. That’s basically how I find the books that I read. <\/span>
\nTom Araya<\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span>
\nJessica Simpson<\/span><\/p>\n

What I like about graduation speeches is that they’re an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It’s like a sanctioned self-help moment. <\/span>
\nBruce Eric Kaplan<\/span><\/p>\n

Go to any bookstore, and you’ll see thousands of books on etiquette, which suggests there’s a lot of self-help going on. There is hope. <\/span>
\nLetitia Baldrige<\/span><\/p>\n

The thing I love most about going to a book store is the self-help section is the biggest section because Americans know we’re screwed up. We know it. But we want to get better. <\/span>
\nHamza Yusuf<\/span><\/p>\n

Human beings have kicked around the concept of what individual happiness means for centuries, from the Bible to the ancient Greeks to the 1859 bestseller ‘Self-Help.’ <\/span>
\nMary Pilon<\/span><\/p>\n

“Focusing” is no conventional repackaging of self-help wisdom. It is at once a manual and a philosophy. It talks about the body’s wisdom, the steps of the focusing technique, how to discover the richness in others by learning to listen. <\/span>
\nMarilyn Ferguson<\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span>
\nGeorge Carlin<\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span>
\nJon Heder<\/span><\/p>\n

Like every other self-respecting academic, I’m distrustful of self-help books. <\/span>
\nAmitava Kumar<\/span><\/p>\n

In academe, we ought to temper our criticism of the idea of self-help because, in a more complex way, it is precisely what we offer our students through our teaching. <\/span>
\nAmitava Kumar<\/span><\/p>\n

I worked at a nursing home though high school… There’s a lost appreciation for a generation that has so much to tell us when we’re so full of self-help books and doctors on TV. <\/span>
\nBonnie Hunt<\/span><\/p>\n

I felt that no self-help book had been written for millennials yet, so my ultimate goal was to write it. <\/span>
\nMark Manson<\/span><\/p>\n

Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today. <\/span>
\nBrendon Burchard<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Self-help<\/a>
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Pain is important, and changing who you are is difficult, painful, and scary. Most of the self-help industry sees change as this euphoric, liberating thing and tells you that you can be happy all the time. I think the opposite. <\/span>
\nMark Manson<\/span><\/p>\n

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it’s at. <\/span>
\nJanice Dickinson<\/span><\/p>\n

I’d been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings. <\/span>
\nClarence Thomas<\/span><\/p>\n

So many self-help ideas are like meringue – you take a big bite, and there’s nothing there. <\/span>
\nDeborah Norville<\/span><\/p>\n

Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can. <\/span>
\nJane Siberry<\/span><\/p>\n

As a business consultant, I am a voracious reader of self-help books, case studies of thriving companies, and the biographies and autobiographies of the world’s most successful people. I relentlessly implement the best ideas into my businesses. <\/span>
\nClay Clark<\/span><\/p>\n

The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the part of every country; and second, maximum mutual aid. <\/span>
\nPaul Hoffman<\/span><\/p>\n

This is what he has been selling on the ‘The Apprentice’, through his self-help books, how to – you know, ‘Trump 101’ or the ‘Art of the Deal’ or, really, back to ‘Art of the Deal’. So almost the more he gets away with, the more he is reinforcing his brand. <\/span>
\nNaomi Klein<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve read, like, 10,000 self-help books. <\/span>
\nJen Sincero<\/span><\/p>\n

Labour grew out of popular movements of mutualism and self-help. <\/span>
\nLiz Kendall<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve never read a self help book… the most self-help I’ve read is on a beer mat. <\/span>
\nOphelia Lovibond<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t want to get all self-help on everyone. But I definitely think there was a period in my life where I thought I would feel the same way, forever. And every day felt like ‘Groundhog Day,’ where I was super, super depressed. <\/span>
\nPhoebe Bridgers<\/span><\/p>\n

We live in a very mollycoddled society where the slightest bit of discomfort is seen as wrong, but that discomfort is there for a reason. It’s supposed to trigger some form of action, some form of change, a realization of a truth – something, and I think the self-help world has you believing that you should be happy all the time. <\/span>
\nMatthew Hussey<\/span><\/p>\n

Memory enhancement self-help programs abound and promise improved memory performance by the utilization of any number of seemingly unique techniques focused on the context of how information is encoded. <\/span>
\nDavid Perlmutter<\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span>
\nVinny Guadagnino<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer: ‘The Power of Intention,’ which I loved. <\/span>
\nChris Pine<\/span><\/p>\n

I can’t get enough of self-help books of all kinds. <\/span>
\nBruce Eric Kaplan<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t think of literary novels as self-help documents, although literature undoubtedly saved my life when I was young, enabling me to disappear into all manner of stories, to recognise feelings that I felt alone in. <\/span>
\nBill Clegg<\/span><\/p>\n

My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I’m fascinated by Jung, by dream work. <\/span>
\nLaura Dern<\/span><\/p>\n

The self-help section of national bookstore chains in America is one of the largest sections. In a way, it’s nothing new, and in another way, very new. People have always searched for answers; that’s why we have religion. People have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality. <\/span>
\nHolly Hunter<\/span><\/p>\n

I actually really wish I had written ‘The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying’ as an unreliably narrated novel that is also a self-help book. <\/span>
\nElif Batuman<\/span><\/p>\n

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It’s a form of self-help. <\/span>
\nBrian K. Vaughan<\/span><\/p>\n

You can also find a lot of help and inspiration reading the following articles:<\/span><\/p>\n

Self-words quotes and aphorisms, quotations, ideas and thoughts, by famous writers and authors, from Self-Acceptance to Self-Interest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Self-words quotes and thoughts, aphorisms and ideas, by famous writers and authors, from Self-Knowledge to Selfishness.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Samuel Smiles book about Self-help<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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The Victorian Society<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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The Victorian literature<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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