Self-Help Quotes

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance. ~ Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world—to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want. ~ The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself. ~ The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it. ~ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare To me it seems that those who are happy in this world are better and more lovable people than those who are not. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler "Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, As self-neglecting." ~ Henry V by William Shakespeare "Where, you tend a rose, my lad,
A thistle cannot grow." ~ The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts--just mere thoughts--are as powerful as electric batteries--as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. ~ The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. ~ Paradise Lost by John Milton