Charles Handy Quotes

I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

As Aunt Naomi was listing all the things she was going to do to help this person, her friend stopped her in mid-sentence. "Naomi, girl," she said, "you need to resign as general manager of the universe. You need to learn that sometimes the best way to help a person is to let them help themselves. Otherwise, they never learn how. And they are always going to make their problems your problems."

So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others...before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.

You are not likely to bring out the best in people or nurture their creativity if every time you hear about their problems you instantly offer a solution Encourage people to look for their own solutions-and project the knowledge that they are capable of doing so.

Were I to solve problems for others they would remain stagnant; they would never grow. It would be a great injustice to them. My approach is to help with cause rather than effect. When I help others, it is by instilling within them the inspiration to work out problems by themselves. If you feed a man a meal, you only feed him for a day-but if you teach a man to grow food, you feed him for a lifetime.

You just have to have the guidance to lead you in the direction until you can do it yourself.

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

Is it important to have a crew behind me? No, it's important to have me behind them. That's how I look at it. You can't just roll with a situation like you're depending on somebody to help you. You're supposed to help the situation, whatever the situation is that you're in.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. - Lord Commander Mormont

The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.

I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.

Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.

I'm happy if I can help anybody. I'm more than happy to, but you have to find your own path.

If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to work, so he assists himself.

I want people to provide for themselves.

I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time.

I hope my books empower kids, and that they learn how to work out their problems themselves.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I try to develop others. I get a great deal of joy out of helping people who, over the years, I've spent a lot of time mentoring - and just trying to get them to another level.