147 Personal Growth Quotes

Personal growth is necessary if you want to stay away from mediocrity and from people who do not have any direction in life. It will serve as your guide in achieving your goals and building your future. We shouldn’t be investing in things that do not make us grow and learn but invest some time to ourselves instead. A great way to start thinking about who you want to become is through keeping any of these awesome personal growth quotes we’ve compiled for you.

Personal Growth Quotes

1. Absorb what is useful. Discard what is not. Add what is uniquely your own. – Bruce Lee

 

2. Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. – Viktor Frankl

 

3. Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw

 

4. The only journey is the journey within. – Rainer Maria Rilke

 

5. They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. –  Confucius

 

6. We must become the change we want to see. – Mahatma Gandhi

 

7. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. – Will Durant

 

8. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

9. What we think, we become. – Buddha

 

10. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill

 

11. A good criterion for measuring success in life is the number of people you have made happy. – Robert J. Lumsden

 

12. A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton

 

13. A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere. – La Rochefoucauld

 

14. Ability may take you to the top, but it takes character to stay there. – William Blake

 

15. Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. – Bruce Lee

 

16. Be humble always and identify with the common man; even when success and achievements want to make you proud. – Bishop Leonard Umumna

 

17. Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. – Dr. Seuss

 

18. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. – Helen Keller

 

19. Everybody wants to be somebody, nobody wants to grow. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

20. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. – Reinhold H. Niebuhr

 

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21. I do not think there is any other quality so essential to the success of any kind as the quality of perseverance.  It overcomes almost everything, even nature. – John D. Rockefeller

 

22. I don’t have to be what nobody else wants me to be and I am not afraid to be what I want to be. – Muhammad Ali

 

23. I praise loudly; I blame softly. – Queen Catherine II

 

24. I studied the lives of great men and women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work. – Harry S. Truman

 

25. I will speak ill of no one and speak all the good I know of everybody. – Andrew Jackson

 

26. Insist on yourself. Never imitate. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

27. It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude. – Zig Ziglar

 

28. I’ve never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. – Paul Harvey

 

29. Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. – Bruce Lee

 

30. Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want. – Jim Rohn

 

31. Optimists are right.  So are pessimists. It’s up to you to choose which you will be. – Harvey Mackay

 

32. People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you’re fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly. – Elizabeth Gilbert

 

33. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. – Vince Lombardi

 

34. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. – Jimmy Johnson

 

35. The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. – James Oppenheim

 

36. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. – William Arthur Ward

 

37. The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions. – Confucius

 

38. The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges. – Martin Luther King Jr.

 

39. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. – Socrates

 

40. What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others. – Confucius

 

41. We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. – John Dryden

 

42. What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. – Confucius

 

43. What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become. – Bruce Lee

 

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44. Personal development is the conscious choice to improve one’s life to become a better person and to grow as an individual.

 

45. Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. It will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you. – Robin Sharma

 

46. Look in the mirror that’s your competition.

 

47. What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

48.  Income seldom exceeds personal development. – Jim Rohn

 

49. Be the change you want to see in the world. – Gandhi

 

50. Personal development – the never-ending chance to improve not only yourself but also attract opportunities and affect others. – Jim Rohn

 

51. Personal development is essential for a positive mindset, self-motivational, increasing self-belief and raising your standards.

 

52. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. – Henry David Thoreau

 

53. Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. – Jim Rohn

 

54. Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end. – Robin Sharma

 

55. Personal development separates you from the crowd. – ATGW

 

56. If you want to get more, you must become more. – ATGW

 

57. Life gets better when we get better, life changes when we change. – ATGW

 

58. An investment in your personal development is the best investment you can make. – Jim Rohn

 

59. The best investment you can make is in yourself. – Warren Buffet

 

60. Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become. – Eli Cohen

 

61. You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. If you want to reach your goals and fulfill your potential, become intentional about your personal growth. It will change your life. – Jim Rohn

 

62. We can’t become what we want to be by remaining what we are. – Max DePree

 

63. People don’t grow by accident, they grow by design. Design yourself. Design your future. Success never just happens.

 

64. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain

 

65. There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. – Nelson Mandela

 

66. Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends. – Author-Poet Aberjhani

 

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67. I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We’re made to grow. You either evolve or you disappear. – Tupac Shakur

 

68. It’s very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you’re not perfect. – E.L. James

 

69. We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. – Helen Keller

 

70. It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace of life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things. – Donald Miller

 

71. A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul. – Jillian Michaels

 

72. Your inner strength is your outer foundation. – Allan Rufus

 

73. Before you find your soul mate, you must first discover your soul. – Charles F. Glassman

 

74. An awake heart is like a sky that pours light. – Hafiz

 

75. You don’t need to change the world; you need to change yourself. – Don Miguel Ruiz

 

76. I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man. – Arthur Schopenhauer

 

77. Know who you are, and be it. Know what you want, and go out and get it. – Carroll Bryant

 

78. When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes. – A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

 

79. The type of person you are is usually reflected in your business. To improve your business, first, improve yourself. – Idowu Koyenikan

 

80. You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow. – Idowu Koyenikan

 

81. Whenever I am in a difficult situation where there seems to be no way out, I think about all the times I have been in such situations and say to myself, “I did it before, so I can do it again. – Idowu Koyenikan

 

82. Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside. – Idowu Koyenikan

 

83. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity. – Carlos Castaneda

 

84. But if you forgive someone for something they did to you, it doesn’t mean you agree with what they did or believe it was right. Forgiving that person means you have chosen not to dwell on the matter anymore; you have moved on with your life. – Idowu Koyenikan,

 

85. Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness. – Deborah Day

 

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86. We wait for God to bless us while God waits for us to accept the blessing. – Betsy Thompson

 

87. If you don’t go after what you want, you could spend your entire life settling for what you can get. – Mo Stegall

 

88. It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack. – Germany Kent

 

89. When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before. – Cliff Fadiman

 

90. Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new. – Aberjhani

 

91. A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows. – Sydney J. Harris

 

92. If you choke your potential before it has an opportunity to become a possibility you will never reach your destiny. – Mo Stegall

 

93. When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars. – Idowu Koyenikan

 

94. An authentic and genuine life grows like a sturdy tree. And like a tree, it grows slowly. Every time you make a different and better decision, it grows a little. Every time you choose to do the right thing, even when nobody would find out otherwise, it grows a little. Every time you act with compassion, relinquish your right to strike back, take a courageous stand, admit fault or accept responsibility, it grows a little. – Steve Goodier

 

95. Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life. – Deborah Day

 

96. Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. – George Santayana

 

97. It may actually be more healthy to be disturbed, confused, or searching than confident, certain, and secure. – Mark Scandrette

 

98. If a tree’s strength is judged while it is still a seed, it is mistaken as weak. –  Idowu Koyenikan

 

99. Many times in life, we are held back from achieving our goals because we do not commit ourselves wholeheartedly. With an escape route in mind, we hold ourselves back from giving our all. – Idowu Koyenikan

 

100. The key to ultimate happiness and fulfillment lies within our own transformation. The more we learn and grow and evolve as individuals, the more we will find happiness and satisfaction in relationships, work and life. – Kristi Bowman

 

101. Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth. Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate. – Aberjhani

 

102. And it makes you think. Even things that have been the same for years and years can change. Maybe I can change. I can bring my own wall down, and let people in. – Rae Earl

 

103. But I was done trying to wake her up, to make her see. To save her. The only person I could save was myself. – Emme Rollins

 

104. Living is a process of developing oneself. Without experiencing pain from disconcerting periods of our lives, we would be a different person, perhaps a lesser person. – Kilroy J. Oldster

 

105. Self-transformation commences with a period of self-questioning. Questions lead to more questions, bewilderment leads to new discoveries, and growing personal awareness leads to transformation in how a person lives. Purposeful modification of the self only commences with revising our mind’s internal functions. Revamped internal functions eventually alter how we view our external environment. – Kilroy J. Oldster

 

106. The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves. – Bob Proctor

 

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107. For years I was deathly afraid of my own weaknesses, but when I closed my eyes and let myself be vulnerable to them it allowed miracles to take place. Miracles that were only alive when I accessed my blind faith. – Bethany Brookbank

 

108. See yourself living in abundance and you will attract it. It always works, it works every time with every person. – Bob Proctor

 

109. Money is only used for two things. One, it’s to make you comfortable, and the more comfortable you are the more creative you will become. And the other purpose is it enables you to extend the service you provide far beyond your own presence. – Bob Proctor

 

110. Life is a university and you never graduate. Accept that whatever happens to you, no matter how terrible, is there to teach you. Your job is to learn and do what you have to. – Srikumar Rao

 

111. Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are. – Bernice Johnson Reagon

 

112. Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. – Bo Bennett

 

113. Epic things start with small humble steps. Pay respect to your beginnings. And if you’re just starting out, know that it’s ok to be sucky. To be small. To be messy and chaotic. Just make sure to never stop dreaming.  – Vishen Lakhiani

 

114. Every moment of one’s existence, one is growing into more or retreating into less. – Norman Mailer

 

115. Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. – Morihei Ueshiba

 

116. Change equals self-improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before. – Pat Summitt

 

117. Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth. – John C. Maxwell

 

118. The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, “I was wrong”. – Sydney J. Harris

 

119. I’ve never heard anyone say “I wish I hadn’t forgiven”. – Katerina Stoykova Klemer

 

120. Sometimes in life, we take a leap of faith. Remember, the leap is not about getting from one side to the other. It’s simply about taking the leap and trusting the air, the universal breath will support your wings so that you may soar. – Kristi Bowman

 

121. Where your fear is, there is your task. – C.G. Jung

 

122. Convince yourself every day that you are worthy of a good life. Let go of stress, breathe. Stay positive, all is well. – Germany Kent

 

123. Thoughts frame your portrait, action paints it. – Charles F. Glassman

 

124. When you trust your inner guidance and begin moving in the direction of your dreams (aligned with your individual gifts) you will be cloaked in an armor bestowed upon you by your guardian angel. – Charles F. Glassman

 

125. Reconnect to what makes you happy and brings you Joy. If there is something that used to make you happy which you have stopped doing, do it again. Seek to find deeper meaning and significance rather than living on the surface. – Susan C. Young

 

126. Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment. – Vera Farmiga

 

127. Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth. – Ian K. Smith

 

128. I’ve been committed to personal growth since I was a teenager, and I’m a believer in the idea that your thought is the only thing that matters. – Alice Ripley

 

129. Apart from writing books, my 40s have been about pursuing personal growth. Whatever were the mistakes of my earlier life, I’ve been committed to a pause, a regroup. I don’t want to make the same mistakes in the future. – Monique Roffey

 

130. My character, Charlotte, is very confident, and I try to be more like my character in real life. Not that I’m not confident, but I’ve really found my personal growth through work. – Charlotte Flair

 

131. Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth – more than any other American President. – Henry Louis Gates

 

132. People whose minds are not strengthened for endurance are by no means always unintelligent. They simply have never stopped to think that the use of the mind for the purpose of growth is a necessary part of a God-pleasing lifestyle. – Gordon MacDonald

 

133. Whatever we think about and thank about, we bring about. – Wayne Dyer

 

134. The biggest temptation is to settle for too little. – Thomas Merton

 

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135. The difference between success and mediocrity is all in the way you think. – Dean Francis

 

136. The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. – Michelangelo

 

137. The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. – Marcel Pagnol

 

138. The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

139. Nothing can stop the person with the right mental attitude from achieving his goals. Nothing on earth can help the person with the wrong mental attitude. – Thomas Jefferson

 

140. Our greatest battles are that with our own minds. – Jameson Fran

 

141. Real difficulties can be overcome; It is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. – Theodore N.Vail

 

142. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars. – Les Brown

 

143. Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. – Doug Larson

 

144. It is the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief.  And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. – Claude M. Bristol

 

145. It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. – Charles F. Kettering

 

146. No great improvements in a lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought. – John Stuart Mil

 

147. No man is ever whipped until he quits — in his own mind. – Napoleon Hill

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