Self Help Quotes & Sayings That Inspire A Positive Change

Be bold enough to use your voice, brave enough to listen to your heart, and strong enough to live the life you’ve always imagined.

When you say yes to others make sure you are not saying no to yourself.

The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.

Forget about what everyone else thinks and says. If it makes you happy, do it.

I owe no explanations for my flaws. I don’t have to justify my mistakes, my past, or my insecurities. I am growing and learning. Let me live.

I’m just human, I have weaknesses, I make mistakes and I experience sadness; But I learn from all these things to make me a better person.

Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings & emotions.
– Will Smith

Be confident. Too many days are wasted comparing ourselves to others and wishing to be something we aren’t. Everybody has their own strengths and weaknesses, and it is only when you accept everything you are – and aren’t – that you will truly succeed.

Respectable character is developed by consistency in self discipline and self control.
– Anil Kumar Sinha

Get out of your comfort zone. Wake up the sleeping giant in you.
– Dr T.P.Chia

I am in competition with no one. I run my own race. I have no desire to play the game of being better than anyone, in any way, shape or form. I just aim to improve, to be better than I was before. That’s me and I’m free.

You cannot grow unless you are willing to change.

Self-disciplined people are more successful, healthier and happier in life.
– Dr T.P.Chia

You’ll never leave where you are until you decide where you’d rather be.

Don’t let anyone ever dull your sparkle.

God didn’t create you just for you to be used, abused and treated wrong. Let go of anyone that doesn’t respect you or care about you.

I have insecurities, of course, but I don’t hang out with anyone who points them out to me.
– Adele

Don’t let negative people stop you from changing your lifestyle. Take control of your life. It’s yours to live.

Never allow your mind to wander untamed like a wild animal that exists on the basis of survival of the fittest. Tame your mind with consistent focus on your goals and desires.
– Stephen Richards

Don’t just be who you are and what you are. Move, evolve, change, grow and become better each day.
– RVM

Don’t be victimized by negative emotions and thinking. Don’t be handicapped by stubbornness and inflexibility.
– Dr T.P.Chia

All we can do is take one step at a time, no matter how worn that step may be.

Listen to positive people and ignore negative ones. People that doubt, judge, and disrespect you are not worth your time and attention.

Don’t let yourself be controlled by three things: people, money, or past experiences.

The most important thing you can do for yourself is to avoid having negative behaviors and harmful habits.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Do one thing every day that scares you.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

You don’t need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be.
– Wayne Dyer

Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people’s opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions!
– Steve Maraboli

The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything – the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.
– Bill Murray

It only takes one person to change your life – you.
– Ruth Casey

I hope you win the war you tell no one about.

Never let anybody bring you down because you were not brought to this earth for criticism.

It is dangerous to think that there is no need to improve yourself.
– Dr T.P.Chia

One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a s**t.
– J.A. Konrath

Allow yourself to be a beginner. No one starts off being excellent.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
– Knute Rockne

You owe yourself a favor – know what you should do and what you should not do.
– Dr T.P.Chia

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces,never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.
– Flavia Weedn

Remove toxic people from your life. Free yourself.

Stop competing with others. Start competing with yourself.

If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.

Courage increases with confidence. Confidence grows with self-trust.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Don’t let self-doubt interfere with plans to improve your life.
– George Carlin

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip toe if you must, but take the step.

Don’t worry about what others think of you. It doesn’t matter as long as you have your own convictions and are proud of what you do.
– RVM

Time spent undistracted and alone, in self-examination, journaling, meditation, resolves the unresolved and takes us from mentally fat to fit.
– Naval Ravikant

The way you think about yourself determines your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people think about you. Many of those people are a reflection of how you think about yourself.
– Shannon L. Alder

The toughest competition is competing with yourself – to try to be better than what you have performed or achieved.
– Dr T.P.Chia

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
– J.K. Rowling

Stop giving your life away to other people.
– Steve Maraboli

Unless you try to do something beyond you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Don’t try to overhaul your life overnight. Instead, focus on making one small change at a time. Over time, those small changes will add up to big transformation. Don’t give up.

It’s better to be with people who celebrate you and not with people who tolerate you. Start by celebrating yourself and the beautiful person you already are and you won’t need others acceptance or approval.

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.
– Steve Maraboli

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.
– Brene Brown

Only make decisions that support your self- image, self- esteem, and self- worth.
– Oprah Winfrey

If someone is strong enough to bring you down, show them you are strong enough to get up.

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.
– Oprah Winfrey

Letting go of toxic people in your life is a big step in loving yourself.

Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.
– Eleanor Brownn

To get out of the comfort zone is to grow, learn and advance for a better future.
– Dr T.P.Chia

You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked, try approving of yourself and see what happens.
– Louise L. Hay

Swallow your pride and everything will be alright.

Don’t be lazy and irresponsible. Don’t be arrogant and boastful. Don’t be self-centered and unrealistic.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Sometimes what you’re most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free.

Patience and self-restraint strengthen you. Impatience and self-indulgence weaken you.
– Dr T.P.Chia

If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you’ve made, if they don’t realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.
– Steve Maraboli

If you don’t trust yourself, nothing great will happen to you.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is standing in the way of your success.

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
– Rumi

Words can make or break you. Be careful how you choose your words.

Spend a little more time trying to make something of yourself and a little less time trying to impress people.
– The Breakfast Club

Never say anything about yourself that you do not want to come true.
– Brian Tracy

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.
– Vironika Tugaleva

Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort.
– Deborah Day

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.
– Steven Wright

One’s own self is well hidden from one’s own self; of all mines of treasure, one’s own is the last to be dug up.
– Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas.
– Steve Maraboli

Don’t let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out!

Learn to question yourself: Why this anger or resentment? Where does this incessant need for attention come from? Under such scrutiny, your emotions will lose their hold on you. You will begin to think for yourself instead of reacting to what others give you.
– Robert Greene

Self-complacency prevents you from becoming smarter.
– Dr T.P.Chia

You have the ability to choose your reactions.
– Steve Maraboli

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The more you exercise your self-discipline, the stronger it becomes.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Don’t drift into self-pity because it doesn’t solve any problems. Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge and self-pity are disastrous modes of thoughts.
– Charlie Munger

There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that truth is this: you deserve all good things life has to offer.
– Rhonda Byrne

Perhaps the most liberating moment in my life was when I realized that my self-loathing was not a product of my inadequacy but, rather, a product of my thoughts.
– Vironika Tugaleva

Work on yourself. Build the confidence and gusto required to rise above your mental baggage.

No other love no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one’s heart better than unconditional self-love.
– Edmond Mbiaka

Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world making the most of one’s best.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
– Princess Diana

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.
– Sarah Dessen

You have dealt with so much and done the beat you can. Take a moment now to appreciate how strong you are.

When admiring other people’s gardens, don’t forget to tend to your own flowers.
– Sanober Khan

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.
– Oprah Winfrey

Your biggest enemy is yourself – so be your best friend!

An affirmation to say everyday:
The healing power of God is working in me right now. Every day I get better and better in every way.
– Joyce Meyer

Self-confidence creates a perfect personality.

When you build a relationship with your inner self, you will never be alone.
– Debasish Mridha

Not everyone will be permanent in your life. People come and go. But the person who is in the mirror will always be there with you. So love yourself.

The more you love yourself, the more you would improve your weaknesses and strengthen your strengths.
– Dr T.P.Chia

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
– Mark Twain

The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won’t be with others, but with yourself.
– Shannon L. Alder

Today is my tomorrow. It’s up to me to shape it, to take control and seize every opportunity. The power is in the choices I make each day. I shape me.

You have to first discover yourself before you could succeed in being your true self.
– Edmond Mbiaka

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
– Marcus Aurelius

Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself – what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.
– Warsan Shire

Don’t disrespect yourself by undermining your capabilities!

You are interesting, worthy and lovable. If you don’t believe that, nobody else will either.

Be your own hero!!!
It is cheaper than a movie ticket!!!!!!

The hunger for attention is an enemy of self-love.
– Edmond Mbiaka

The benefit of choosing self-responsibility, over blaming someone else, is that you have an in with the person who can do something about it.
– Alan Robert Neal

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.
– Brian Tracy

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
– Brian Tracy

Be good to yourself, love yourself.
– Anandmurti Gurumaa

The absence of self-love can never be replaced with the presence of people’s love for you.
– Edmond Mbiaka

No matter whether you believe in luck or chance, the final decision is from yourself.
– Stephen Richards

It’s scary to take a leap into the unknown, but staying in your comfort zone is not going to bring forth greatness.

Accepting yourself for who you are is the greatest thing of all. Who wants to live life always doubting themselves, trying to fix their flaws, or hide the true self. Embrace yourself or you’re never gonna truly be able to enjoy life.

The narrower the identity you choose for yourself, the more everything will seem to threaten you. For that reason, define yourself in the simplest and broadest terms possible.
– Mark Manson

The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.
– Stephen Richards

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
– Oprah Winfrey

In order to be the best that you can be, you must learn to be comfortable with being uncomfortable.

Love thyself & whole universe will shower love on you.
– Anandmurti Gurumaa

The best vehicle to get you from where you are to being rich is investments made in your own brain.

Self- help is the best help.
– Aesop

Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The only love you should desperately search for, is the one that comes from you to you.
– Edmond Mbiaka

Body love is more than acceptance of self or the acceptance of the body. Body love is about self-worth in general. It’s more than our physical appearance.
– Mary Lambert

If you are reading this then I’m talking to you.

End your sadness. It’s time. You are too determined to call yourself “infixable”. Look around. Everyone is broken. If you continue to wear the label, then that’s all you will ever be.

I need you to try.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
– Jean Shinoda Bolen

Sometimes you gotta learn to love your weaknesses before you can learn to love yourself.

Sometimes being happy takes effort. Invest time and energy in yourself and your happiness.
– Amy Leigh Mercree

Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.
– Christopher Germer

It’s common to reject or punish yourself when you’ve been rejected by others. When you experience disappointment from the way your family or others treat you, that’s the time to take special care of yourself. What are you doing to nurture yourself- What are you doing to protect yourself- Find a healthy way to express your pain.
– Christina Enevoldsen

Spirituality increases the will-power, will-power increases the aptitude of a person, then aptitude increases the position of the human being in life.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
– Epictetus

There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don’t help them by doing the job yourself.
– Laurell K. Hamilton

Accept who you are; and revel in it.
– Mitch Albom

Taking good care of yourself means the people in your life receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
– Lucille Zimmerman

The harsh things we tell ourselves don’t drive us forward; they drive us crazy.
– Alan Robert Neal

Sometimes your biggest bully is you.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
– Walt Disney

When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs, and habits – anything that kept me small. Now I see it as self-loving.
– Kim McMillen

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.
– Barbara De Angelis

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.
– Warren Buffett

You willed yourself to where you are today, so will yourself out of it.
– Stephen Richards

You have two hands. One to help yourself, the second to help others.

When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.
– Stephen Richards

Getting over yourself offers exponential returns.
– Shane Parrish

You have to take care of yourself so you can manage the workload of a very, very full plate.
– Meghan Markle

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
– Aldous Huxley

To one’s enemies: ‘I hate myself more than you ever could.’
– Alain de Botton

We confront our worst behaviors when their cost exceeds our fear.
– Alan Robert Neal

There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn’t matter anymore.

Clutter is not just physical stuff. It’s old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self.
– Eleanor Brownn

You can never say you’ve improved when you haven’t committed change!

Believe in yourself to be a champion.

When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.
– Alan Cohen

The excellent person manages himself. He will not allow the environment to manage him.
– Rex Resurreccion

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
– Aldous Huxley

Why would you have fake friends when you have got yourself, no one will be better and stronger than you will ever be in a lifetime.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
– André Gide

Your skin is your skin. Your legs are your legs. Your hair is your hair. Your smile is your smile. Your past is your past. You can waste your life hating these things, but you may as well learn to accept them. Both routes are difficult and full of pain, but with acceptance, you will be happy one day, while with hatred, you never will.
– Vironika Tugaleva

Love thy neighbor yes, but love thyself first.
– Solange Nicole

We are so desperate to be in love with someone else that we forget to love ourself. What a tragedy!
– Jasz Gill

Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?
– Brigham Young

If you had a person in your life treating you the way you treat yourself, you would have gotten rid of them a long time ago.
– Cheri Huber

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
– Oliver Goldsmith

It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect.
– Nathaniel Branden

I don’t think it’s necessary to transform in all areas of your life. It’s sort of like cooking with lean beef. If you remove too much fat, it’s doesn’t taste as good.
– Alan Robert Neal

Time is my greatest asset, and I shall relate myself to it which provides that every seconds not devoted for sleep shall be used for self improvement.

She conveniently missed the distinction between self-improvement and self-involvement.
– Alan Robert Neal

The absence of unconditional self-love has led many people to sell themselves cheap.
– Edmond Mbiaka

For those of you who struggle with guilt regarding self-care, answer this question: What greater gift can you give to those you love than your own wholeness?
– Shannon Tanner

There’s no personal growth to be had by focusing on what others did wrong.
– Alan Robert Neal

If you want a quality, act as if you already have it.
– William James

Work on the problems you really have and not the ones you self-diagnosed during childhood.
– Alan Robert Neal

There are a lot of advantages to being self- taught. Quality of instruction is not one of them.
– Ted Leeson

We all have the tendency to believe self-doubt and self-criticism, but listening to this voice never gets us closer to our goals. Instead, try on the point of view of a mentor or good friend who believes in you, wants the best for your, and will encourage you when you feel discouraged.
– Kelly McGonigal

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