(14 quotes found)
“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
“Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.”
Henry Ford
“We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves”
Mark Twain
“Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods loved him because men hated him.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you'd have a Servant that you like, serve your self”
Benjamin Franklin
“He that by the plough would thrive, himself must either hold or drive”
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
Maya Angelou
“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself”
“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.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike”
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