Paul Kurtz Quotes

I cant save you, you have to save yourself.

In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

Nobody else will ever be able to save me if I’m not fighting as hard as I can to save myself.

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

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.

My characters are turned upside down and trying to reinvent themselves but don't need a white knight. They can save themselves in a crisis.

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."

Take responsiblilty for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you.

Today I will not wait for someone to come to my aid. I'm not helpless. Although help may come, I'm my own rescuer. My relationships will dramatically improve when I stop rescuing others and stop expecting others to rescue me.

It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

You can't save a person who doesn't want to be saved. It was like Mr. Eddie always told the new gardeners: Everybody's got to kill their own snakes.

It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they have to bust out of their own coffins and do the saving themselves.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

No one is coming to save you.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

All I've ever needed is myself.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

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