Richard Branson Quotes

In order to help people, you have to first learn how to help yourself.

You can't really help people until you've helped yourself first.

You can be helping many people, but if you are not helping yourself, you have missed the one person you were born to heal.

I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.

I do the same thing for myself (as an actor) that I do for others.

As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

Self-care is the number one solution to helping somebody else. If you are being good to yourself and your body and your psyche, that that serves other people better because you will grow strong enough to life someone else up.

If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.

You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

I am unable to give my best if I don't have my best to give.

I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can't go on this way anymore, that the reason you're heavy is because you're ignoring all the stuff that's going on inside.

A lot of people want to go out there, help people, and save the world. Sadly, half the time they can't even help themselves.

You need to take care of you and fortify yourself and then move out to take care of others.

I realized that I needed to start taking better care of myself.

I have therapy. Every day. I read a bit of Freud; I try to be a better person. Every day.

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

To help others develop, start with yourself.

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

It seems to me that we spend an inordinate amount of time and attention on fixing ourselves when we could really be directing that out to serving others.

The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.

By surviving passages of doubt and depression on the vocational journey, I have become clear about at least one thing: self-care is never a selfish act -- it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others. Anytime we can listen to true self and give it the care it requires, we do so not only for ourselves but for the many others whose lives we touch.