Sometimes you’re the only one that can save yourself; for…

“nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved.”

Alice Sebold book Lucky

Variant: You save yourself or you remain unsaved
Source: Lucky

“[Y]ou have to save yourself before you can save anyone else.”

Philipp Meyer book American Rust

American Rust (2009)

“Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of words
and not one of them can save me.”

Naomi Shihab Nye (1952) American writer

Source: Words Under the Words: Selected Poems

“The saving of anyone is something which is not in the power of man, but only of God. No one can be saved — in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved — in virtue of what God can do.”

Karl Barth book Church Dogmatics

2:2 
Church Dogmatics (1932–1968)
Context: The saving of anyone is something which is not in the power of man, but only of God. No one can be saved — in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved — in virtue of what God can do. The divine claim takes the form that it puts both the obedient and the disobedient together and compels them to realise this, to recognise their common status in face of the commanding God.