self-helpful

But if I did it right, it's kind of like a self-helpful book.

Transforming Guilt Into Personal Prose 2010

He was very serious, too serious, and perhaps that is not self-helpful.

Monday, January 31, 2005 As'ad 2005

If, on the other hand, the child is taught to be self-helpful, permitted to join in the work and play of other children, made to feel that, with greater effort, he may do just what they do, he will soon become cheerfully alert and hopefully alive to all the possibilities of his peculiar position.

Five Lectures on Blindness Kate M. Foley

That is to say, without compelling them to really do their own cooking, would it not be wise to have them eat soldiers 'bread or something no better, to accustom them to beat and brush their own clothes, to clean their own boots and shoes, and do other things equally useful and self-helpful?

The Boy Life of Napoleon Afterwards Emperor of the French Eugenie Foa

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.

The Boy Life of Napoleon Afterwards Emperor of the French Eugenie Foa

It was an education -- with here and there, to be sure, some rough places to pass over -- which was worth more to them than all the money millionaires bequeath their sons and daughters; an education which prepared them in after-life to be courageous and self-helpful.

Choice Readings for the Home Circle Anonymous

I do so because you are self-helpful; because you earn your living; because you are honest, simple, and ignorant (for a sensible woman, that is); because you speak and act to the point; because, in short, you are so unlike -- certain of your sisters.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various

At their Saturday industrial schools for children the children of the poor are taught to sew and be self-helpful.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement] 1840-1916 1913

Occasionally a group of college-bred girls came up without escort -- alert, self-helpful and serene.

The Spirit of Sweetwater Hamlin Garland 1900

There are a thousand excellent reasons why a man, in this self-helpful epoch, should decline to be dependent on another; but the most numerous and cogent considerations all bow to a necessity as stern as mine; and the banks were scarce open ere the draft was cashed.

The Wrecker 1898