Personal growth is an arduous task that is born of awareness, motivation and the change of perspective with which you see life. The following personal growth, self-improvement and success quotes are a very useful tool for reflection and learning, and a wonderful incentive to get started on the long and exciting road to success.
Motivational quotes about personal growth
Do you want to overcome your own limitations to discover your true potential? Have you started a process of liberation and personal growth, and do you need support? These quotes will help you think about who you really are and what you are capable of.
1All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow
2You only grow when you are alone.
Paul Newman
3In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.
H. Jackson Brown
4Don't judge yourself by your past; you no longer live there.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
5It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
André Gide
6Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Bernard Williams
7Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
Marcus Aurelius
8Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther King
9Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
Gabriel García Márquez
10The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Lao Tzu
11Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
12The first act of honoring the self is the assertion of consciousness.
Nathaniel Branden
13I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability.
Beverly D’Angelo
14There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan
15If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.
Mark Twain
16If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone
John Maxwell
17Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.
Tom Hopkins
18Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.
Jean Sibelius
19Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
Ovid
20Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.
Pandora Poikilos
21To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri L. Bergson
22There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley
23All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
J. R. R. Tolkien
24All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marden
25The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie
26Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller
27The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
Harvey S. Firestone
28Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli
29Happiness is the secret to all beauty.
Christian Dior
30What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized sooner.
Colette
31That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.
Rabindranath Tagore
32The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.
Wayne Dyer
33We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
34Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Voltaire
Inspiring success quotes
Success is something very relative: for some, it is to succeed in the professional field, for others to overcome their own limitations, and for many, it is found in immaterial things such as love and friendship. No matter what your personality is like, these quotes will inspire you.
35If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Seneca the Younger
36The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.
Stephen Richards
37Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
38Kites rise against, not with the wind.
John Neal
39There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Ernest Hemingway
40Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
Napoleon Bonaparte
41An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
42Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
Lloyd Jones
43The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
44Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
Mark Twain
45I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
46We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
47Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
48The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
Walter Chrysler
49Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
George Herbert
50In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Coco Chanel
51Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream, not theirs.
Dan Zadra
52Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King
53What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Ralph Marston
54Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather
55Do not sit around waiting for things to come to you. Fight for what you want, take responsibility for yourself.
Michel Tanus
56Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Henry Ford
57The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
58You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
Ted Turner
59Men are not made from easy victories, but based on great defeats.
Ernest Henry Shackleton
60Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Robert H. Schuller
61From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow
Aeschylus
62It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Confucius
63If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.
Muhammad Ali
64If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou
65There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho
66Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
W. Clement Stone
67Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.
Frank Ocean
68Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Ezra Pound
69We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
J. K. Rowling
70If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton
71If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Milton Berle
72Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
73The trouble is, you think you have time.
Buddha
74Enthusiasm moves the world.
Arthur Balfour
75Put all you are into the smallest thing you do.
Fernando Pessoa
76How could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?
Friedrich Nietzsche
77Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
Desiderius Erasmus
78Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
Napoleon Hill
Self-improvement quotes to make you think
When you don't find the strength you need to keep up with your change and evolution, self-improvement quotes are often very useful to think about who you are, what you need, where you come from and where you're going. Find out with the following quotes.
79No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
80Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
Eckhart Tolle
81Always remember... You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.
Christopher Robin
82When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.
Stephen Richards
83I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.
Michel de Montaigne
84The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.
Ellen Goodman
85The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.
J. M. Barrie
86To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
87Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
88It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Edmund Hillary
89Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.
Nelson Mandela
90Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
91The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Carl R. Rogers
92The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear, and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
William Jennings Bryan
93Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu
94Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will.
Robert Anthony
95What would you do if you weren't afraid?
Sheryl Sandberg
96Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
Brian Tracy
97If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas A. Edison
98When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor Frankl
99Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.
Brene Brown
100It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier