Benjamin Jowett Quotes

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

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

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It's experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

Show people a positive path that enables them to make progress on their own terms. Give them options and alternatives that empower them.

It is only by giving people the tools to empower themselves will they be able to achieve their potential.

How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I do believe in self-help.

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

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

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.

If you have to rely on yourself, you try harder, and when you try harder, you feel bigger.

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

Grow up and let anyone try to contend with the adult you.

If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

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

Let us first obtain ourselves…Give us ourselves and all that belongs to us will follow.

It was important to me and, I think, important to my parents that I be on my own and figure things out on my own and kind of forge my own path, and I'm really grateful for that.

For six years, I was really on my own and did not have a coach.