These self help quotes will inspire you. Self-help, the action or process of bettering oneself or overcoming one’s problems without the aid of others or designed to assist people in achieving things for themselves.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging self help quotes, self help sayings, and self help proverbs.
Best Self Help Quotes
- “The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them” ~ Jim Rohn
- “Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.” ~ Moliere
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“Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait… and peace will appear.” ~ Guy Finley
- “In America we have the greatest chance for opportunity than anyone else in the past six and a half thousand years. Never in recorded history have so many different gifts from all over the world been deposited in one country.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “Nothing external to you has any power over you.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Refuse to ever use the term ‘failure’ again about yourself or anyone else. Remind yourself that wehn things didn’t go as planned you didn’t fail, you only produced a result.” ~ Wayne Dyer
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“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.” ~ Earl Nightingale
- “Radiate an energy of serenity and peace so that you have an uplifting effect on those you come into contact with.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.” ~ James Thurber
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“To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy … is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.” ~ Ralph Waldo Trine
- “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.” ~ George Carlin
- “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” ~ Louise Hay
- “You cannot help another who will not help him or herself. In the end, all souls must walk their path – and the reason they are walking a particular path may not be clear to us… or even to them at the level of ordinary human consciousness. Do what you can to help others, of course. Show love and caring whenever and wherever you can. But do not get caught up in someone else’s “story” to the point where you start writing it.” ~ Neale Donald Walsch
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“The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.” ~ Samuel Smiles
- “Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.” ~ George Lucas
- “Here is an affirmation for today: I feel passionately about my life, and this passion fills me with excitement and energy!” ~ Wayne Dyer , Self help quotes life
- “Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.” ~ Napoleon Hill
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“Today I will not wait for someone to come to my aid. I’m not helpless. Although help may come, I’m my own rescuer. My relationships will dramatically improve when I stop rescuing others and stop expecting others to rescue me.” ~ Melody Beattie
- “Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.” ~ John C. Maxwell
- “You are innately designed to use your personal power. When you don’t, you experience a sense of helplessness, paralysis, and depression-which is your clue that something is not working as it could. You, like all of us, deserve everything that is wonderful and exciting in life. And those feelings emerge only when you get in touch with your powerful self.” ~ Susan Jeffers , Self help quotes for depression
- “The loving personality seeks not to control, but to nurture, not to dominate, but to empower.” ~ Gary Zukav
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“With God, all things are possible.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “Be a good listener…It makes the person who’s speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge. Apologize for mistakes. Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone – profusely. But don’t apologize for being who you are.” ~ Danielle LaPorte
- “Act as if what you intend to manifest in life is already a reality. Eliminate thoughts of conditions, limitations, or the possibility of it not manifesting. If left undisturbed in your mind and in the mind of intention simultaneously, it will germinate in the physical world.” ~ Wayne Dyer
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“You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what every other oppressed person has advocated-the right to help myself in the absence of help from anywhere else.” ~ Marwan Barghouti
- “Love is contagious. When I share love, it comes back to me multiplied. Love opens every door.” ~ Louise Hay
- “There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.” ~ W. Clement Stone
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“Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.” ~ W. Clement Stone
- “Everything which you can conceive and accept is yours! Entertain no doubt. Refuse to accept worry or hurry or fear. That which knows and does everything is inside you and harkens to the slightest whisper.” ~ Uell Stanley Andersen
- “It’s okay to learn from every experience, and it’s okay to make mistakes.” ~ Louise Hay
- “That which offends you only weakens you. Being offended creates the same destructive energy that offended you in the first place- so transcend your ego and stay in peace.” ~ Wayne Dyer
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“I rejoice in what I have and I know that fresh new experiences are always ahead. I greet the new with open arms. I trust life to be wonderful.” ~ Louise Hay
- “When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it’s almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “You are a Divine creation, a Being of Light who showed up here as a human being at the exact moment you were supposed to. You are the Beloved, a miracle, a part of the eternal perfection.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “Love is your job description – no matter what you do for a living. If you ever feel unsure of what you’re supposed to do in a situation, here’s a good rule of thumb: always do what leads to greater love.” ~ Marci Shimoff
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“Be ready for love when it does come. Prepare the field and be ready to nourish love. Be loving, and you will be lovable. Be open and receptive to love.” ~ Louise Hay
- “Real change isn’t found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.” ~ Guy Finley
- “Helping others is like helping yourself.” ~ Henry Flagler
- “Feel the fear and do it anyway.” ~ Susan Jeffers
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“The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.” ~ Samuel Smiles
- “God helps those who help themselves.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “One of the bonuses about loving yourself is that you get to feel good.” ~ Louise Hay
- “Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge.” ~ Cheryl Richardson
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“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” ~ Robert Collier
- “Your past history and all of your hurts are no longer here in your physical reality. Don’t allow them to be here in your mind, muddying your present moments. Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much longer. But all are necessary, otherwise they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “If you want to move to a new level in your life, you must break through your comfort zone and practice doing things that are not comfortable.” ~ T. Harv Eker
- “If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore
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“Improve your business, your life, your relationships, your finances and your health. When you do the whole world improves.” ~ Mark Victor Hansen
- “We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don’t feel that anymore” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “Don’t set your goals too low. If you don’t need much, you won’t become much.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “Not getting what you want either means you don’t want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.” ~ Rudyard Kipling
- “The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.” ~ Annie Dillard
- “Don’t mistake movement for achievement. It’s easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?” ~ Jim Rohn
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“The truth is, I can’t read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better.” ~ Marc Maron
- “There are many self-help books by Ph.D.s, but I hold a different degree: an I.B.T.I.A.-I’ve Been Through It All. This degree comes not on parchment but gauze, and it entitles me to tell you that there is a way to get through any misfortune.” ~ Joan Rivers
- “Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature begin to well up of its own accord but its steady unchanging character itself helps spontaneously to repel all disturbing thoughts.” ~ Paul Brunton
- “I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.” ~ Napoleon Hill
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“We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin
- “Perhaps the best place to begin with an integral approach to business is with.. oneself. In the Big Three of self, culture, and world, integral mastery starts with self. How do body and mind and spirit operate in me? How does that necessarily impact my role in the world of business? And how can I become more conscious of these already operating realities in myself and in others?” ~ Ken Wilber
- “It’s easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It’s easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.” ~ Napoleon Hill
