Self-help quotes

“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”
Audrey Hepburn

“If you need somethin', you'd best find it yourself, or even better, learn to do without.”
Robert Duvall - Hub

“Jack Devlin-What were you trying to do? Save the world?
Angela Bennett-No. Not the world, just myself.”
Sandra Bullock - Angela Bennett
Jeremy Northam - Jack Devlin

“There’s only one rule: you save your own ass.”
Sean Penn - Kleinfeld

“- Brooke: I never went to college. I'm an autodidact. Do you know what that means?
- Tracy: Yes.
- Brooke: That word is one of the things that I self-taught myself.”
Greta Gerwig - Brooke
Lola Kirke - Tracy

“- Sybylla Melvyn: They're fortunate, aren't they? Every day they get their food.
- Aunt Gussie: As long as I remember.
- Sybylla Melvyn: They never have to look for water in a dried-up creek. Scratch for a living, like all our countrymen, forced on the road to beg.
- Aunt Gussie: Perhaps they're meant to counterbalance the ugly things in life.”

Judy Davis - Sybylla Melvyn
Patricia Kennedy - Aunt Gussie

“There will be no rescue, no intervention for us. We can only save ourselves.”
Don Cheadle - Paul Rusesabagina

“Forgiveness doesn't have to wait. I'm free to forgive myself and so are you. It's a beautiful thing. It really is.”
John Carroll Lynch - Pruitt

“Sometimes you say things that aren't all the way true, but you say them anyways because you want to be true. You know, maybe, maybe that's good enough. Just tell me everything's gonna be okay.”
Jena Malone - Becky Pollard

“In America everyday people make what they will of themselves. I’m going to do something.”
Jennifer Lawrence - Joy

“- Molly Ivors: I didn't think you were a West Briton!
- Gabriel Conroy: And what do you mean, a West Briton?
- Molly Ivors: Someone who looks to England for our salvation instead of depending on ourselves alone.”
Maria McDermottroe - Molly Ivors
Donal McCann - Gabriel

“Some day you're gonna get in a situation where you can't call for help. You'll have to depend on yourself, and you'll let yourself down. I'm not calling because I don't want your mother to think we can't make it home on our own. Call it male pride. Good, old fashioned, pig-headed, working-class, pre-fax machine/car phone, masculine pride. No...” (continue)(continue reading)

Ed O'Neill - Dutch Dooley

“- Nurse Maggie Lesser: Dr. Slattery.
- Dr. Eddie Slattery: Yes. I'm going to the bathroom. I'm going to pee. I don't need a second opinion for that too. I know how to hold it and everything. Do I need a second opinion for that?
- Dr. Foster: No.”
Sylvia Miles - Nurse Maggie Lesser
Richard Pryor - Dr. Eddie Slattery

“A man will say just about anything when he's sportin' badger-food for a pecker.”
Vincent D'Onofrio - Pooh-Bear

“A man makes his own way. No one gives it to you. You have to take it.”
Jack Nicholson - Frank Costello

“In any case I guess I learned that if you are in the business of saving lives you had better start with your own. And, of course, always call 911.”
David Duchovny - Dr. Eugene Sands

“I think love should be irresistible, like a drug, you know? I think when it happens you should just not be able to help yourself.”
Sara Foster - Amy

“Her father dies, and I'm like, baby come on we're going to the nursing home. And she see's all these old men like pick me pick me. She wanted a black one, but I was like keep it simple, that's my motto.”
Ron White - Himself

“I'm sure God has His tricks, but getting out of places no one else can, that's one of mine.”
Vin Diesel - Riddick

“Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone.”

Clint Eastwood - Walt Kowalsky

“I'm a Texas woman, which means I don't need the help of a man to keep things running.”

Rachel Griffiths - Lorri Morris

“- David Jacobs: You're a liar! You lied about everything. You lied about your father being out west, 'cause he's not out west! You didn't even tell me your real name!
- Jack Kelly: So? What you wanna do about it Dave?
- David Jacobs: I don't understand you.
- Jack Kelly: Oh, so let me spell it out for ya. You see, I ain't got nobody tucking me...” (continue)(continue reading)
David Moscow - David Jacobs
Christian Bale - Jack Kelly

“When you're convinced of your own absolute superiority, you don't need help from mere mortals like me. You can fuck things up all by yourself.”
Daniel Brocklebank - Martin

“- Yelena: I want immunity from prosecution, asylum in the U.S., and citizenship.
- Xander Cage: How bout a condo in South Beach and a richboyfriend?
- Yelena: Those I can get for myself.”
Asia Argento - Yelena
Vin Diesel - Xander Cage

“When you get to the end of a rope, tie a knot.”
Shirley MacLaine - Mary Kay