Peace Pilgrim Quotes

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

If you want people to take action, you must refrain from giving them the answers.

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."

I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people, I'll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. That is to say, I desire to be Radiant -- to Radiate Life!

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.

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've always believed that parents are not for leaning upon, but rather exist to make leaning unnecessary.

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.

In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on him .... How far the pupil will go is not the concern of the teacher and master. Hardly has he shown him the right way when he must let him go on alone. There is only one thing more he can do to help him endure his loneliness: he turns him away from himself, from the Master, by exhorting him to go further than he himself has done, and to "climb on the shoulders of his teacher."

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.

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.

Never allow others to think you always have the best answers. This will only make them dependent on you.

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

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.