Personal Development Quotes

When we shift from trying to figure it out to feeling our way, insight arrives.

~ Jeanne Mcelvaney

Curiosity is a youthful beauty. Connected to joy and slipping around old beliefs, it urges us to investigate rather than assume.

~ Jeanne Mcelvaney

Take time to improve your knowledge and skills so that you can put a premium on yourself. You don't have to be content in being simply a good doer if you can also become a great teacher.

~ Jan Mckingley Hilado

There are times in every person’s life when they feel lonely, isolated, like maybe they don’t belong. For adoptees, this is often exacerbated by the circumstances. Because you were given up, you have a built-in scapegoat; you can blame everything that you feel on the fact that you were adopted. But, I want you to know that this is a fallacy. Finding your biological parents will not fill in the void that you feel. You will get answers to your questions, but no one can fill in the missing pieces except for you. Before you go on a search, take the time to get to know yourself very well. Heal the hurts you’ve experienced. Acknowledge the past and how it has affected you. Become a whole person who is seeking roots, not a damaged person who is seeking fulfillment.

~ Janet Louise Stephenson

No matter the nature of your individuality, you can nurture a better identity and have a mature positively rewarding life.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The great beauty of life is its mystery, the inability to know what course our life will take, and diligently work to transmute into our final form based upon a lifetime of constant discovery and enterprising effort. Accepting the unknown and unknowable eliminates regret.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Your decisions will determine your destination. “No decision” is the decision to be just how you were at where you had been.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You life matters. You are here for a reason. Your job is to determine why.

~ Michael Hyatt

Fate can not be proven or disproven so act knowing that destiny is a product of your every thought and every action.

~ Matthew Donnelly

The best things in life are the things you do by mistake.

~ Monika Zands

Doing things the right way now is the cost of your future.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

The virtuous man takes the middle road between the two extremes, making a point of being respectful of his own ideas without changing his personality or style.

~ Auliq Ice

Nothing great was ever achieved without a personal sacrifice. You have to pay the price to realize your goals.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

So many of us have settled for what is, rather than what could be.

~ Michael Hyatt

You need to see a future with such clarity and desirability that you will go through all the uncomfortable things like throws at you to attain it.

~ Michael Hyatt

What we believe about something often creates the outcome we experience.

~ Michael Hyatt

When you take your belief for granted,failure takes you for rides.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The world of books, the greatest possessions.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Gossip: a weed watered by wayward words.

~ Soul Dancer

See yourself as a long-term work in progress, not a short-term project of preservation.

~ Oli Anderson

There is nothing better in life than commitment to personal development and lifelong learning.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your journey on earth is personal journey of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his character, but no he saw also that by reason of it he had acquired that power of introspection which had given him so much delight. Without it he would never have had his keen appreciation of beauty, his passion for art and literature, and his interest in the varied spectacle of life. […] Then he saw that normal was the rarest thing in the world. Everyone had some defect of body or of mind […] The only reasonable thing was to accept the good of men and be patient with their faults.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

There are diverse styles of learning, problem solving, and a range of methodologies that a person can draw from in order to structure their thoughts or intentionally revise ingrained personal habits including both systematic and unsystematic approaches. Problems solving styles are reflective of personal differences in the manner that people prefer to position themselves in respect to the phenomena in the world and efficiently react to alterations in the external environment. Problem solving strategies encompass numerous variances in what manner a person approaches new concepts, how they manage their daily affairs, and respond effectively to new opportunities and complex challenges.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Everything that occurs to us in life is a resource, an experience that we can learn from and grow from.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

To become a better you, keep doing what you have been doing right and learn to correct what you have been doing wrongly.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When you don’t learn the best, you will teach the worst.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You are likely to keep repeating the same mistake all over again if you do not agree it’s a mistake.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

Your soul does not give you your dreams if you don’t have what it takes inside to achieve them.

~ Eileen Anglin

Forgiving someone else doesn't give them a free pass. It gives you a free pass to move on.

~ Charles F. Glassman

When I remove the layers that say I can't, I discover a burning ember that says I should, I can, and I will.

~ Charles F. Glassman

To become a better you, take note of what gets you offended quickly and never go there or let it come to you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You fall flat on your face, and it's not the first time you've done it, Never let your past press you down.

~ Auliq Ice

Forgiveness doesn’t make one person better, or the other guy smaller. Forgiving is just letting go. It’s turning back toward being what we really are.

~ Edward Fahey

Support is not always easy to come by if you wait for the world to see your worth. Discover your own worth and the world will indeed follow your lead. Its the law of cause and effect! It has to happen. Support yourself.

~ Sereda Aleta Dailey

Kindness: a waltz with forgiveness and hope.

~ Soul Dancer

To abandon the child ‘within’ means that the adult ‘without’ will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only name a handful of things that are that tragic.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Once upon a time, when I was young, his forgetting might have rendered my memory meaningless. I no longer require so much from life.

~ Abigail Thomas