Personal Growth Quotes

If you want to do something that really changes someone's life, the best thing you can do is make the person you're trying to help a participant in the process. ~ John Stahl-Wert

Always grow with changes and not against them. ~ Debasish Mridha

If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be. ~ Robert Collier

Your life purpose is not just one thing, nor just what you love to do, nor a role, nor a legacy you leave. Your life purpose is who you are 24/7. ~ Diana Dentinger

What is considered impossible is someone else's opinion. What is possible is my decision. ~ Idowu Koyenikan

What you think of yourself in your mind is nobody's business. Make it count. ~ Majid Kazmi

Don't underestimate the power of humor and the ability to laugh at yourself to deliver peace and serenity. ~ Charles F. Glassman

If we don't currently have what we so desire, then we must become a different person. Beliefs and thought patterns is the road to victory. ~ Matthew Donnelly

Living on the verge is not about doing more, but about being more. It isn't about achieving more; it's about experiencing more. It's not about being someone different, as there 's no "better version of you" on the horizon. Everything you're searching for is available to you in this moment. Everything you need is right here on the verge. ~ Cara Bradley

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

Don't look for a life virtually free from discomfort, pain, pressure, challenge, or grief, for those are the tools a loving Father uses to stimulate our personal growth and understanding. ~ Richard G. Scott

Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it. ~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

There is always light in the midst of the Darkness, even if it's only a pinpoint in the distance. And when it seems as if there isn't, it's just an illusion. Just a lie that the Darkness wants you to believe. Break through the illusion. Remember that you're growing through it and towards the light. You are always growing towards the light. ~ Millie Florence

When things feel murky and unsure, fine tuning our hearing so as to distinguish the voice of our Innermost Self brings clarity. ~ Kristi Bowman

The greatest self are self-improvement, self-development and self-discovery. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Have you noticed how much lying we do in our relationships? We tell ourselves that it's not lying or it is excusable for purposes of self-defense. How little we realise that every lie digs us deeper into a painful delusion and we end up building war zones, not love boats. ~ Donna Goddard

Let's not kid ourselves, we find mutual love only when we know how to love. And the best place to start practicing the art of love is with the self--that body, mind, heart, and soul that we can most know and change.
The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourselves. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin....rather than embracing faulty thinking that encourages us to believe that females are inherently loving, we make the choice to become loving. Choosing love, we affirm our agency, our commitment to personal growth, our emotional openness. ~ Bell Hooks

Arrested personal growth serves industrial "growth". By suppressing the nature dimension of human development (through educational systems, social values, advertising, nature-eclipsing vocations and pastimes, city and suburb design, denatured medical and psychological practices, and other means), industrial growth society engenders an immature citizenry unable to imagine a life beyond consumerism and soul-suppressing jobs. ~ Bill Plotkin

I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy. ~ Lee Iacocca

I have seen far by seeing through the lens of Jiu Jitsu. I have exchanged a great deal of physical health for these insights, and these were trades worth making. My efforts were worth the return. I have sacrificed much in the name of this craft. Not for trophies or belts or prestige. For these fall away like dust. I pursued this art so fervently because it was not actually Jiu Jitsu I pursued. It was myself. ~ Chris Matakas

Love sticks around even when it has a lot to put up with. ~ Chip Ingram

You are either growing up or going down ~ Saji Ijiyemi

I can Be what I WILL to Be. Find A Way~ Make it Happen! ~ Darwun St. James

We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to develop our innate abilities can we live as free beings. But we are just as much determined by inner potential and outer opportunities as the Stone Age boy on the Rhine, the lion in Africa, or the apple tree in the garden. ~ Jostein Gaarder

There is no fault, only responsibility. ~ Rob Liano

Success-minded people know that the greatest enemy to today's success is yesterday's success. ~ John Patrick Hickey

The wisdom of hindsight would reveal that I had no clue how to find myself, no idea how to love myself, and no ability to be myself. Mix all of those three dilemmas, and you've created a cocktail that will knock anyone out.

Even though I couldn't name those specific issues that night, I did own where I was to the best of my ability. That's often all we can do in a crisis. So that night, I looked myself in the eyes and said, "It isn't supposed to be this way. ~ Stephen Lovegrove

Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit. ~ Helena Rubinstein

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

If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead. ~ Oswald Chambers

Feminist psychologists have suggested that a toxic friendship is often one in which a women's own personal growth and individuation is sacrificed at the expense of the demands of the other person. Sometimes choosing oneself rather than the friendship is important for future personal growth and individuation. But women have a difficult time separating from each other because emotional connection is so highly valued and broken friendships are seen as failures. ~ Irene S. Levine

You don't need to chase wealth, just become a real entrepreneur and the world is your oyster. ~ Amah Lambert

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?' ~ Brian Tracy

Let's start with what we can be thankful for, and get our mind into that vibration, and then watch the good that starts to come, because one thought leads to another thought. -Bob Proctor ~ Bob Proctor

Research seems to indicate that there is a third and better alternative: We can recognize the in love experience for what it was - a temporary emotional high - and now pursue "real love" with our spouse. That kind of love is emotional in nature but not obsessional. It is a love that unites reason and emotion. It involves an act of the will and requires discipline, and it recognizes the need for personal growth. Our most basic emotional need is not to fall in love but to be genuinely loved by another, to know a love that grows out of reason and choice, not instinct. I need to be loved by someone who chooses to love me, who sees in me something worth loving.
That kind of love requires effort and discipline. It is the choice to expend energy in an effort to
benefit the other person, knowing that if his or her life is enriched by your effort, you too will find a sense of satisfaction - the satisfaction of having genuinely loved another ~ Gary Chapman

Don't look for false friends. Let true friends find you. ~ Patrick Grant

The ego is our pain, but it is what we know and we resist moving out of it. The effort it takes to grow out of painful patterns often feels more uncomfortable than remaining within them. Personal growth can be so painful because it can make us ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But the goal of personal growth is the journey out of dark emotional patterns which cause us pain to those which cause us peace. ~ Marianne Williamson

Don't quit because it's hard. Quit because it's not hard enough ~ Yoan Alexandrov

Life includes unforeseen incidents that prove critical to promote personal growth. Life rarely gives us what we want. We are lucky if life gives us what we need in order to fulfill the path that was in place at our birthing. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself. ~ Julia Cameron

Your struggle is a signal for change and an opportunity for growth. ~ Bruce Francois

Overcoming limiting beliefs depends on a person's willingness to challenge and replace their beliefs with contrasting ones which feel uncomfortable, unfamiliar and, potentially, threatening to their sense of self. ~ Kain Ramsay

You're going to find the people that make it work NEVER quit, quitting is NOT an option. ~ Bob Proctor

A person desires to achieve the apex of his or her potentiality. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

When you are in the highest vibrational state you will not feel the need to; over eat, over spend money, insist on having a certain relationship, or even become a millionaire because you have shifted into the abundance that you are and from this place you dont feel any lack at all. ~ Renae A. Sauter

Your personal writing can heal, grow, and transform your life. Give your words permission to change you. ~ Sandra Marinella

Anger is a sentry, stalking the edges of our boundaries and standing ready to defend them. ~ Jessica Moore

We should respect other people's decisions, even if they seem bad ones to us. Perhaps, we are wrong. Perhaps, we are not wrong but the decision is necessary for the person's growth. ~ Donna Goddard

The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

Never base your destiny on things you cannot control and have no power to change. ~ John Patrick Hickey

Burnout is the result of too much energy output and not enough energy self-invested. In other words, it's burning too much fuel than you've put in your tank. ~ Melissa Steginus

I fear that should I seek out the treasures around me, they might by comparison reveal that I have not cultivated the treasures within me. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Unforgiveness is a shadow of the past; it is behind you, but you always know it is there. Sorrow and bitterness covers your heart like the darkness covers the night. ~ Deborah Brodie

You are a projection of your mind. ~ Bruce Francois

For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool? ~ Stendhal

I've learned that each mistake was probably a reflection of something that I was (or others were) doing wrong, so if I could figure out what that was, I could learn how to be more effective. ~ Ray Dalio

Jiu Jitsu has shown me that we are not confined to the lot which we inherit. We are not bound to these fetters eternally. They are temporal. We can transcend them should we sincerely choose to. Sincere effort is in fact the rarest virtue among man. ~ Chris Matakas

I realize that I cannot say enough. So. Since I cannot say enough, at least I will avoid saying to much. ~ Patrick Rothfuss

Let's face it. It's taken years for you to learn to be the person you are, so you're not going to change overnight. But the good news in that you can unlearn those aspects that you want to change and chart a new path in life. And it's never too late to start, whether you're 20, 40, 60, or 80! ~ Kevin Leman

The only person we have the right or the power to forgive is ourselves. For everything else there is the Art of Acceptance. ~ Rebecca O'Dwyer Centred Woman

The idea of practicing love is deeply appealing to me, because built right in is an acceptance of imperfection. There is an acknowledgment to myself that I am going to mess this up, an understanding that there is room to grow. Each of my failures just affirms the truth that we are all starting over and rising again. ~ Anna White

We call it training. Not because we are training for Jiu Jitsu. We are training for life. ~ Chris Matakas

...trust in what you know, be patient with yourself, and take things one step at a time. ~ Melissa Steginus

Here is the truth: The journey to achievement is not a destination, it is only a stop over to the next goal. ~ John Patrick Hickey

I can feel my life changing and I'm not ready. ~ Jennifer Elisabeth

The more you teach your people to not need you, the greater your value. ~ John Stahl-Wert

If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself. ~ Jim Rohn

There are two key areas that boil down life. Our relationships with people and the relationships with ourselves. ~ Matthew Donnelly

True love heals and affects spiritual growth. If we do not grow because of someone else's love, it's generally because it is a counterfeit form of love. ~ John Bradshaw

Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly. ~ Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

Nothing great could ever be achieved, without personal force, determined spirit and self-confidence. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

As I stood behind you, I sensed that God was telling me to pay for your groceries, so I did. Simple as that. ~ Clare De Graaf

Behind every trigger is a wound in our past. ~ Jessica Moore

The result of mindful awareness is the development of our virtues, which are the basic positive building blocks of our life. ~ Janet Gallagher Nestor

We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project. ~ Judith Wright

The moment you believe your experience is caused by other people, you are giving them your power. ~ Jeanne McElvaney

I want to do a good job living today. ~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer

If you're in permanent beta in your career, twenty years of experience actually is twenty years of experience because each year will be marked by new, enriching challenges and opportunities. Permanent beta is essentially a lifelong commitment to continuous personal growth. Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'. If ~ Reid Hoffman

Breakdowns create breakthroughs.

Breakthroughs create more breakthroughs.

More breakthroughs create friction because idiots be jealous or don't get it or protect their little corner and act out of spite.

So you breakdown for another breakthrough.

If you're about to break, go for broke.

If you're not breaking, you're not really living. ~ Richie Norton

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living. ~ Alice Sebold

Personal growth is not like the development of a skill. It does not take place in observable increments that can be measured and charted. Indeed, as we have seen, when we're growing in sensitivity, generosity, and compassion, we're not aware of it, because we're not focusing on ourselves. The recovery of emotional freedom simply does not have the quality, for most of us, of a controllable sequence of transformations. It's more a career of discovering futher and further weaknesses and shedding them in turn. ~ C. Terry Warner

The bible is a source of great inspiration to me. It is a textbook of metaphysics. Within the bible are keys to personal growth, and lessons in personal actualization. The bible is a spiritual masterpiece. ~ John Fante

You can spare yourself discomfort by keeping your distance, by remaining safely aloof, by maintaining what are largely superficial friendships. But if you do, you will deprive yourselves, and others, of one of the greatest opportunities for learning and for personal growth. - William Bowen ~ Peter Slevin

Never be limited by others' inability to think of you in terms big enough or dreams grand enough. Never allow yourself to define what is possible for you in your life by others' limited vision of what they believe is possible for them in theirs. ~ Judy M. Ford

Everybody is fighting a hard battle that you know nothing about, never give up with yours. ~ Auliq Ice

Before searching for happiness in others, we must first find it in ourselves. ~ Charles F. Glassman

In my own life, I have always viewed personal mastery as simply a medium through which I become capable of providing more service toward my fellow man. ~ Chris Matakas

The person who has a highly evolved will they think, they build an image and they focus on that image."


― Bob Proctor ~ Bob Proctor

In whatever we do, we should be investing in ourselves and not our jobs. Everything I have ever pursued has been for the sole goal of who I was becoming in its achievement. I competed and fought because of the man I became. This is the only worthwhile victory. You cannot take the trophies with you. ~ Chris Matakas

Be open to the possibility that there are other paths available to you in relating to yourself and to another. ~ Sharon Salzberg

You want to make sure that your purpose is something people can benefit from long after you're gone. ~ Bob Proctor

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away? ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope

Research on the human brain has shown it is predisposed to think in the terms of a story.36 This predisposition is continuously reinforced and strengthened throughout the life of your brain. Imaging studies have shown only a small, quarter-sized region of your brain lights up when someone tells you a series of facts. However, when someone tells you a story laced with those facts, or those facts in action, your entire brain lights up. Not only can you program your mind with a story - you can program someone else's mind. ~ Isaiah Hankel

Beyond the pain, anger and unforgiveness, there is only one thing; love. This is where the magic happens ~ Renae A. Sauter

Don't argue with a smart person. He won't drag you up to his level. ~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Learn to talk less and you will say more. ~ Benjamin Aubrey Myers

I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth. ~ Erykah Badu

Law firms can create environments for abusive relationships. This is especially true if an attorney has no self-direction, has no independent means of financial support, and has massive student loan indebtedness. You've basically made yourself an indentured servant. ~ Robin D. Hart

The love of fate corresponds to a willingness to accept ownership of one's actions, whether these are spontaneous or imposed from the outside. It is this acceptance that leads to personal growth, and provides the feeling of serene enjoyment which removes the burden of entropy from everyday life. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

If you can stare hard at your problems, they almost always shrink or disappear, because you almost always find a better way of dealing with them than if you don't face them head on. The more difficult the problem, the more important it is that you stare at it and deal with it. ~ Ray Dalio