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What are some best quotes on personal development & growth?
Personal development is a long-term investment in yourself and forms the basis of everything you do: your relationships, career and time management. In other words, it's taking on new challenges every day to build your confidence, self-esteem, and self-awareness.
There are many reasons people choose to develop their personality. Maybe they are doing it because of social stigma, or maybe they don't like their current situation and they want something better. Whatever the case may be, personal development is an essential part of every person's life.
Personal development helps you discover who you really are and who you wish to become.
Quotes on personal development can be a powerful tool for changing your life. They can inspire you, motivate you, and drive you towards success. Unfortunately, finding these type of quotes can be challenging.
Hence I have compiled a list of the top 53 motivational quotes that I keep in my journal to keep myself inspired.
These top 53 quotes about personal growth include quotes by Swami Vivekananda, John Maxwell, Jim Rohn, Elon Musk, James Cameron and more. And are not just for personal growth, but also for everyday life. Enjoy reading! ( You can read this post offline by downloading the PDF version.)
The Top 53 Quotes About Personal Growth And Success
1. "Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you’ve got to remember those inspirations." - James Cameron
2. "What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." - Jane Goodall
3. "It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree … make sure you understand the fundamental principles, i.e. the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves or there is nothing for them to hang on to." - Elon Musk
4. "Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don't have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow." - Carrie Fisher
5. "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." - Warren Buffett
6. "One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again." - Abraham Maslow
7. "Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them." - Albert Einstein
8. "What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided if we have the courage to dissect the elements."- Anais Nin
9. "The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development." - Robin Sharma
10. "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." - Albert Einstein
11. "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." - Fredrick Nietzsche
12. "Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are." - Bernice Johnson Reagon
13. "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart
14. "A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you." - C.S. Lewis
15. "People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do." - Rob Siltanen
16. "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success." - James Cameron
17. "Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound." - James Allen
18. "Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." - Maya Angelou
19. "The important thing is that we must be constantly moving forward, yes, the progressive realization of a predetermined goal. And our growth should never end." - Og Mandino
20. "It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default." - J.K. Rowling
21. "Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure." - Paulo Coelho
22. "Income seldom exceeds personal development." - Jim Rohn
23. "You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them." - Shonda Rhimes
24. "When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too." - Paulo Coelho
25. "You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow." - Idowu Koyenikan
26. "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison
27. "Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission." - Zig Ziglar
28. "Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart." - Roy T. Bennett
29. "What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. "It's what you practice in private that you will be rewarded for in public." - Tony Robbins
31. "If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?" - Miguel Ruiz
32. "It is never too late to be who you might have been." - George Eliot
33. "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." - Buckminster Fuller
34. "Be the change you want to see in this world." - Mahatma Gandhi
35. "Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experiences that reveal the human spirit." - E.E. Cummings
36. "We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it." - Rick Warren
37. "There's only one growth strategy: work hard." - William Hague
38. "The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential...these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence." - Confucius
39. "We imagine that as soon as we are torn out of our habitual path all is over, but it is only the beginning of something new and good. As long as there is life, there is happiness." - Leo Tolstoy
40. "I can't tell where the journey will end … But I know where to start." - Avicii (Tim Bergling)
41. "Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won’t be dissatisfied, you won’t be envious, you won’t be longing for somebody else’s things. On the contrary, you’ll be overwhelmed with what comes back." - Mitch Albom
42. "Never allow your mind to wander untamed like a wild animal that exists on the basis of survival of the fittest. Tame your mind with consistent focus on your goals and desires." - Stephen Richards
43. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
44. "When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you...never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." - Harriet Beecher Stowe
45. "Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still." - Chinese Proverb
46. "Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success." - Swami Vivekananda
47. "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will." - Vince Lombardi
48. "How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank
49. "If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave." - Fulton J. Sheen
50. "If there is no struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass
51. "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut
52. "Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life." - John Maxwell
53. "Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom." - Jim Rohn
Conclusion:
Each one of us can make each day more fulfilling by improving our personality and 'self'. These 53 quotes about personal growth and success illustrate that we are all capable of being better than who we are now. Hope you enjoyed reading!
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