Quotes about Self-help

The alternative teaching of the Gnostics had proposed that one should replace the very Jewish message of God's kingdom on earth as in heaven by a very non-Jewish message about a "kingdom" that turned out to be a new form of self-help spirituality. The

The best place to get help is from yourself.

Can you help me?" "Well," I said, "perhaps I can help you help yourself.

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

The gods help them that help themselves.

Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self.

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.

was a melancholy introvert who declined to join in philosophical discussions.)   The Concord circle of sympathetically-minded thinkers, writers, and social activists became known as Transcendentalists. What exactly is Transcendentalism? That's the question Emerson set out to answer at Boston's Masonic Temple in 1842. In addition to defining his own philosophy, this lecture planted the seeds of the modern self-help and personal development movements.

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.