self-help
noun
the act of providing for or helping or the ability to provide for or help oneself without assistance from others.
self-helpful
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a word derived from
self-help.
Example Sentences
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It is knowing how, generally, to make the most of yourself and of your opportunities, and have a nice world to live in, a thrifty, self-helpful, disciplined world.
From That Fortune by Charles Dudley Warner
Solitude had made him uncommunicative and secretive; anxiety and privation had made him self-helpful and self-reliant; lack of sympathy had made him calculating; but doing for others had made him kind-hearted and generous.
From The Boy Life of Napoleon Afterwards Emperor of the French by Eugenie Foa
Are they counselled to be active, self-helpful, self-reliant, alert, ingenious, energetic, aggressive?
From A New Atmosphere by Gail Hamilton
The self-helpful are not always the men who have achieved greatest success in what vulgarians call success.
From Increasing Personal Efficiency by Russell H. Conwell
The first conventions of the men of Ohio were self-helpful.
From The Early Negro Convention Movement The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 9 by John W. Cromwell
