Self-Help Quotes

"Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd,
Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is." ~ Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare Constantly just to herself, mind! This is the quality of true passion. ~ Sandra Belloni by George Meredith "Really it is very wholesome exercise, this trying to make one's words represent one's thoughts, instead of merely looking to their effect on others." ~ Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Gaskell "Here was I asking a blessing and neglecting the means, which is a mockery." ~ Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Gaskell That of all the propensities which teach mankind to torment themselves, that of causeless fear is the most irritating, busy, painful, and pitiable. ~ Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott "There are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent lightnesses and contradictions - not the less difficult to achieve, because they have no earthly chronicle or audience - done every day in nooks and corners, and in little households, and in men's and women's hearts - any one of which might reconcile the sternest man to such a world, and fill him with belief and hope in it." ~ The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens "The debts we owe ourselves are the hardest to pay." ~ Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith There is no influence like the influence of habit. ~ The Translation of a Savage by Gilbert Parker Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly. ~ Bleak House by Charles Dickens Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me; the guiding star and the loadstone which point the way. They point in but one direction. They point to me. ~ Anthem by Ayn Rand