Self-Help Quotes

"One gets a bad habit of being unhappy." ~ The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last. ~ Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens Newman cast a despairing glance at his small store of fuel, but, not having the courage to say no -- a word which in all his life he never had said at the right time, either to himself or anyone else -- gave way to the proposed arrangement. ~ Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens For, what other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! ~ The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne "All a man can betray is his conscience." ~ Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad "And, above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning." ~ The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope "I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." ~ Daniel Deronda by George Eliot "What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!" ~ Persuasion by Jane Austen Who has not in his great grief felt a longing to look upon the outward features of the universal Mother; to lie on the mountains and watch the clouds drive across the sky and hear the rollers break in thunder on the shore, to let his poor struggling life mingle for a while in her life; to feel the slow beat of her eternal heart, and to forget his woes . . . ~ Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. ~ The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne