Quotes on Help Yourself

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

You can be helping many people, but if you are not helping yourself, you have missed the one person you were born to heal.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you cannot help yourself, because you are compelled by his gun. Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the highwayman's gun.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

It will come with a rush and a roar and a shudder. It will come howling and laughing and shrieking and moaning. It will come so fast you can’t help yourself you will stretch out your arms to embrace it. You will feel it before it comes and you will tense yourself for acceptance and the earth which is your eternal bed will tremble at the moment of your union.

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep this principle in mind: Become genuinely interested in other people.

A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. Few things in life are better than seeing people realize their potential. If you invest in people by helping individuals improve themselves, showing them the way to their “right place”, they will never be the same again. And neither will you. It is impossible to help others without helping yourself.

Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.

In reality there are no others, and -helping yourself you help everybody else.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.