Personal Growth Quotes

• "You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him .” - Leo Aikman
• "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going .” - Jim Rohn
• "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
• "There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots, the other is wings . " - Hodding Carter
• "What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them .” - Denis Waitley
• "To admit you were wrong is to declare you are wiser now than before.” -  Author Unknown
• "Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out. " - Lee Iacocca
• "God ever works with those who work with will.” -  Aeschylus
• “But until a person can say deeply and honestly, “I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,” that person cannot say, “I choose otherwise.” - Stephen R. Covey
• "As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone, I would devote myself to my soul. " - Toyohiko Kagawa
• “What holds most people back isn’t the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves. You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.” – Russell Simmons – Do You!
• "When you give someone a book, you don't give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possibility of a whole new life. " - Christopher Morley
• "If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. " - Lord Chesterfield
• “The top players in every field think differently when all the marbles are on the line. Great performers focus on what they are doing, and nothing else…They let it happen, let it go. They couldn’t care less about the results.” - John Eliot
• "Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.” -  Abd-el-Kadar
• "It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.” -  Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton
• "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots. " - Edward Bulwer Lytton
• "If you want to feel proud of yourself, you've got to do things you can be proud of.Feelings follow actions . " - Oseola McCarty
• "Everybody wants to be somebody;nobody wants to grow.” -  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• "Gratitude connects us to others and feeling gratitude allows us to be our best selves. When we are truly grateful, we can count on living the life we want.” -  M.J. Ryan
• "The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said .” - Peter Drucker
• "Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will and his personal responsibility. " - Albert Schweitzer
• “We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.” - Epictetus
• "The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.” -  Cicero
• "The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness . " - Lionel Barrymore
• "There are many things in life that will catch your eye,but only a few that will catch your heart. Pursue them. " - Author Unknown
• "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step .” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• "The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch .” - Jim Rohn
• "The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice .” - George Eliot
• "In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing. " - Philip Gilbert Hamilton
• "A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline . " - Harvey Mackay
• "You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.” -  Charles F. Kettering
• "What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself. " - Hecato, Greek philosopher
• "The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self. " - Montaigne
• “We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before “arriving.” – Napoleon Hill
• "Please understand my friend, that where you find yourself tomorrow is a function of the positive decisions and actions you take today.” -  Akin A. Awolaja
• "You'll never plough a field turning it over in your mind . " - Irish proverb
• "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. " - Benjamin Franklin
• "The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. - Socrates
• "If you know peace, then you thrive; if you know contentment, then you are rich.” -  Su Shi
• "The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.” -  Ben Stein
• "Lack and limitation can only exist when we make room for them in our mind . " - Bob Proctor
• "Anger is one letter short of danger! . " - Denis Waitley
• "Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push - a smile. A word of optimism and hope, a 'you can do it!' when things are tough . " - Richard De Vos
• "The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.” -  Okakura Kakuzo
• “Don’t Take Anything Personally. Nothings others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.” – Don Miguel Ruiz
• "If you don't take charge of shaping your own destiny, others will apply their agenda to you. " - Eric Allenbaugh
• "Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass.It's about learning how to dance in the rain. " - Author Unknown