Self Help Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

We cannot dim another person's light without first extinguishing our own. — Alaric Hutchinson

If you feel something should be changed, start the change with your thoughts and mind-set. Cause you may not change the surroundings but your thoughts will...

-Giridhar Alwar — Giridhar Alwar

Beware of anyone who says, "I love you" without hesitation; they've had a lot of practice saying it. — Benjamin DeHaven

May you find the confidence and courage to climb new heights. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Good, capable individuals unconsciously and consciously guard and nurture themselves and their spirits every day in all sorts of choices, large and small. Just as their lives are never static, they are rarely if ever fractured. Their morals and ethics are never cut off from the whole of their evolving beings. — Donald Van De Mark

Forging fake smiles to hide painful truths doesn't take away the hurt, but sometimes safeguards our emotions from those adamant not to understand. — Aisha Mirza

A good leader doesn't have to know everything. Nobody knows everything that's why you surround yourself with people who are experts in different areas.

"That's what makes a good leader. — Patience Johnson

You are pure awareness at center, human in appearance. — Robin Craig Clark

Future strong builds actions upon reflection,
questions, curiosity, seeking to understand root causes and systemic connections. — Bill Jensen

While it is easy to blame the hand of the abuser, when that hand no longer is raised against you, why do you continue to feel the burn of its touch? — Deborah Brodie

If you don't know what to do next take the oath that will enhance your soul and erase your ego, & from the quiet space inside yourself, you will know what to do. — Nikki Rowe

Improve yourself. Raise your attitude up to excellence for success. Get going now and create the reality. — Mark LaMoure

Do what you love and the rest will come. — Romi Grossberg

Under chronic stress, your body is more apt to enter a state of dis-ease. Unable to achieve its natural balance, it can't function the way it should. The ripple effects can be profound. And yet Western medicine has trained us to focus on symptomsrather than root causes like stress. Page 71 — Nick Ortner

What is given to you is what is needed; what you want, requires giving up what you don't need. — George Alexiou

Not knowing what to do with your life is a painful thing. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Future strong is relationship-driven and joyful.
Its best bet is on people. Its outcomes create joy
for others and ourselves. — Bill Jensen

Positive goals lead to positive actions for purposeful life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Wisdom is not guaranteed with age but is realized through one's sensitivity to humanity and the universe — I. Alan Appt

God is a creation of human brain — Durgesh Satpathy

Life is spiritual warfare. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Motivation is the first step in achieving your dreams! — Craig Mercier

There are 1,440 minutes in every day. How are you using yours? — Beverly K. Bachel

What will you do today so tomorrow becomes the legacy you wanted to leave? — Bill Jensen

Don't go through life with a closed mind. Allow innovations and creativity to flow. We should always challenge ourselves to excel in more ways than one. Be open to ideas or suggestions on how to improve. And, the chances of reaching your goals will increase enormously. — Amaka Imani Nkosazana

A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind. — Daisaku Ikeda

Make peace with your fears; after all, they are only imaginary friends. — Samer Chidiac

Happiness and achieving our dreams is a matter of believing it is possible and having a positive frame of mind. — Rob Martin

If you are fortunate enough to enjoy great success, you should never forget the spirit of the beginner, and not grow indolent and arrogant. — Kentetsu Takamori

The first step in any Journey, Is the belief that the road will open up in front of you even if you cant see it.... — Meg Gherson

Come, said my Soul
Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,)
That should I after death invisibly return,
Or, long, long hence, in other spheres,
There to some group of mates the chants resuming,
(Tallying Earth's soil, trees, winds, tumultuous waves,)
Ever with pleas'd smiles I may keep on,
Ever and ever yet the verses owning - as, first, I here and now,
Signing for Soul and Body, set to them my name, — Walt Whitman

To achieve something, you need to be a little selfish...!! — Akansh Malik

The best self is a good being. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life was not meant to be live alone. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The odds are, you highly underestimate how awesome you are. Stop doing that. — Rob Liano

Motivation enhances human worth and potential. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Just because you are alive, doesn't mean that life is going to hand you everything. If you keep believing life will somehow automatically improve on its own, then you're going to waste many years of your life in a state of disappointment. Life is a continuous experience of independent present moments and choices. So whatever situation you are in right now, just know that it can change if you want it to. The future is immediate! — Anonymous

You have not been given the task of creating something brand new from the vast world around you. All you are called to do is discover what is inside of you right now, the life you have been given. Once you find that, you can begin creating something external that aligns with and affirms your spark. — Stephen Lovegrove

You are a goddess. You are a catch. You are, like, the outcome of every self-help book ever written. — Georgia Clark

Compassion can be learned through example — Renae A. Sauter

To be future strong, you will face difficult hardships. Usually, there is no absolutely right or absolutely wrong choice. The key is to be intentional: Choosing the best hardships for your best future. — Bill Jensen

Prayer may not change our outer circumstances but inwardly it can change everything — Renae A. Sauter

Being able to tell the truth about our own lack of personal integrity has integrity to it. The key to being able to deal with and lighten up about our own humanity is to get wholly honest about our dishonesty. — Lauren Handel Zander

Vulnerability always comes with risks, but its rewards are deep. — Aisha Mirza

Let go of self-condemnation and guilt! — Tae Yun Kim

I am fortunate to be a resemblance, rather than a replication of who I was yesterday. — Rob Martin

Running away, avoiding life's battles or giving up robs you of the opportunity to grow and be stronger. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Carlin does a rare thing for a self-help book: gives useful guidance by supplying readers with the tools necessary for change." --Barry Silverstein, "Foreword Reviews — Barry Silverstein

Life is in a constant state of change and by evolving in the present with change - Matthew Donnelly — Matthew Donnelly

Heading back into your life to dust off and decipher old memories allows you to fully grasp how much power you have always held in your life. It helps you start to see that the way you have stored your memories and the role you played in them can be altered by you at any moment. Truly. At any moment in time. Hell, with one phone call. — Lauren Handel Zander

Do you think we find Jesus, or does He find us? — J.I. Willett

Make sure your beliefs match who you are: love. — Renae A. Sauter

Treat me as I am,
and that I shall remain.
Treat me as I wish to be,
and that I shall become. — Karl Schmidt

I know the Lord loves me. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is better to have a tender than harden human heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

BELINDA:Your children are a pain in the neck...
MASSIMO: They are mine when they misbehave -
BELINDA: Which is always.
MASSIMO: And yours when they behave like angels.
BELINDA: I'll be old by the time that happens. — Billy London

You were taught that love is supposed to be patient and kind, and not something that challenges you and changes you and makes you who you are. — Brianna Wiest

Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of another. — Mark Manson

Be firm with your decisions. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am my own self. — Lailah Gifty Akita

As long as you SIT, you Stay In Trouble. Once you STAND, you Shift Toward A New Direction, take a STEP, and Start To Embrace Purpose, then WALK to Welcome Abundance, Love and Knowledge. — Niquenya D. Fulbright

Disappointment over love affairs generally has the effect of driving men to drink, and women to ruin; and this, because most people never learn the art of transmuting their strongest emotions into dreams of a constructive nature. — Napoleon Hill

The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred. — Sharon Salzberg

Your supporters can help you think in new ways, solve problems, and burst through barriers. — Beverly K. Bachel

Have you ever felt your destiny unfolding, beloved? Have you experienced the intensity of the hunt, the fixation of attention that only fate can explain? Have you ever told yourself your feelings were
excessive, but known that something huge and pivotally important was carrying you along like a riptide? You can fight that current all you want; you know it will still have its way with you. Or you can
try swimming along with it, and grow amazed by your own power - until you pause and realize that you aren't moving but being moved. You're not in control, not at all, and that's what makes the feeling so
exquisitely exciting. — Martha N. Beck

Gratitude is a spiritual heaven. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Embracing personal vulnerability is required if you wish to work, play and succeed in the future. — Bill Jensen

Helping professionals, therapists, life coaches, healers can greatly assist you in changing your life for the better, but they pale in comparison to the power thats gained from developing a relationship with yourself. It's you that holds the power for change — Renae A. Sauter

Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.
Polly B. Berends — Polly Berrien Berends

Making changes requires making new and different choices, choices that are more conscious, and more life-supporting. Continuing to do what we have been doing so far is also a choice, but not one that will bring any meaningful improvement. I would suggest that before we can intelligently make new choices, a thorough re-evaluation is in order. We need to look more carefully at what we value, what we have, and what we desire to make sure these are really important to us and represent what we truly want. — Ilchi Lee

Respect the past, and prepare for the future by taking action in the present. — Rob Martin

We do not need "No Objection Certificate" from anyone to be happy. — Saurabh Sharma

Self love is number one. As you radiate it out to others; it will radiate back to you. — Renae A. Sauter

What a blessing, what a treasured friend that despair turned out to be. It continually crushed my ongoing attempts at manufacturing optimism, slowing me down, leveling me so I could return to love and begin again and again. — Lori Cash Richards

Although life is filled with twists and turns, only you have the ability to make positive changes to your life. You can do it. One day at a time! ~ Taken from "Words of Wisdom for Warriors" by EM.EM.Genesis — E.M. E.M. Genesis

Every time you get angry with yourself for where you are in your process of growth, it's the equivalent of chopping off the head of the rose because it hasn't bloomed yet. Now you have to go through that part of the process again. Anger will set you back every time and slow down your growth. However, self-compassion and self-encouragement are like water and sunshine; they help the growth process happen faster and easier. It's up to you how you want to proceed, but if you can break the habit of getting angry with yourself and replace it with some compassion and encouragement, then you will bloom like you have never bloomed before. — Emily Maroutian

Self-love is having appreciation for oneself, respecting oneself, and caring for oneself, and the actions that help us mature also help it grow. — Tisha Marie Payton, MHR

Every second you think meaningless, makes your minutes less productive and take you hours behind — Ankit Goel

Don't take to heart, any negative criticism. Focus on positive thoughts — Lailah Gifty Akita

You don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own — Kerry E. Wagner

Without challenge we become too comfortable with life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

At the very moment when we refuse to follow our conscience and refuse to be truthful, we become all the more aware of the presence of conscience and the absolute truthfulness inside. — Ilchi Lee

May you have a joyful and grateful spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Far too much horrific wast of human capacity is disguised as order, predictability, and minimizing uncertainty. — Bill Jensen

Future strong cultures and relationships are built upon intense 'I have your back' bonds. — Bill Jensen

So although there is no phoenix here, there is, nonetheless, a fierce, stubborn, wildly insightful, arrogantly honest, crazily committed, and caring human, who will take the heat, the brunt of whatever silver spoon joke you may have, so I can help you have everything you want in your life. And I mean everything. — Lauren Handel Zander

Attitude plays a bigger role than you may imagine in determining your future success - bigger than talent, money, or popularity. — Beverly K. Bachel

The truth will set you free (The Bible) — Robert Baohm

Peacefully and lovingly accepting who we are today requires honestly looking at our past. — Rob Martin

The most meaningful hopes and dreams don't come from outside sources - they come from within. — Beverly K. Bachel

Any self-help program that discourages me from thinking for myself, that is, from tweaking what I've learned to understand myself is suspect. Growth is all about thinking creatively, and I can't very well do that if I take on the role of parrot. — Dannye Williamsen

Pray, read and mediate on the Scripture. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not envy any one. Their travel path is different from yours. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life only gets better with every bright light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You will experience 100 transformative moments every year. — Bill Jensen

Most corporate infrastructures are massive time-wasters and demoralizing energy suckers. — Bill Jensen

Never let your Enemies become your Advocates." by A. K. Hasan — A.K. Hasan

Emotions are like muscles. Most of them go highly unattended, it's usually the weaker, undefined ones that cause injury to the rest, and there is most certainly memory response in play. — Erica Goros

By our ideas on how others 'ought to be' we rob ourselves of the chance to know them for who they already are. - See beyond the limits of your expectations. — Russell Kyle

What I'm willing to admit is that my mind, as it serves my heart, becomes a very creative place, capable of surprising ingenuity and masterful reframes. And in this incredibly creative place, my world works for me, not against me. — Lori Cash Richards