“When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.”

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British/American author and motivational speaker 1973

Carlos Gershenson (1978) Mexican researcher

Zire Notes (May 2004 - December 2006)

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”

Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)

“Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

Attributed to Karl Marx, a composer with the same name.
Misattributed

“It is pretty well established that there is an overconfidence effect. … You don't have the competence to assess your own competence. … you need competence in order to assess your own competence. … Everyone has the Dunning-Kruger effect.”

Steven Novella (1964) American neurologist, skepticist

SGU, Podcast #557, March 12th, 2016 http://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcast/sgu/557 <br class="br">The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, Podcast, 2010s

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”

Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…

“Everyone wants to feel loved, but when all you feel is alone it's tough to accomplish anything else.”

Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host

Source: The Christmas Sweater

“Recognizing and respecting differences in others, and treating everyone like you want them to treat you, will help make our world a better place for everyone. Care… be your best. You don't have to be handicapped to be different. Everyone is different!”

Kim Peek (1951–2009) American savant, model for the protagonist of the film "Rain Man"

Wisconsin Medical Society http://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/savant/kimpeek.cfm

“When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those
you love.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

“When you’re a charmer
you hate yourself
a victim of sideshow hypnosis
like everyone else.”

Aimee Mann (1960) American indie rock singer-songwriter (born 1960)

"Charmer"
Song lyrics, Charmer (2012)
Context: When you’re a charmer
the world applauds
they don’t know that secretly charmers
feel like they’re frauds When you’re a charmer
you hate yourself
a victim of sideshow hypnosis
like everyone else.

“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

E quando você quer alguma coisa, todo o Universo conspira para que você realize seu desejo.
Variant: And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 22; a variant of this has become attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen" — but no occurrence of this a statement has been located prior to in The Gift of Depression : Twenty-one Inspirational Stories Sharing Experience, Strength, and Hope (2001) by John F. Brown, p. 56

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