Personal Development Quotes

I believe that when a person has hope in the future, believe in their ability to achieve and understand that God made them for a purpose, then they will, in the end, and achieve great things.

~ John Patrick Hickey

Similar to a how a flower grows incrementally, people also blossom in stages. As we age, we expand our knowledge of how the world works and how other people respond to our deeds. We also expand our language skills in order to communicate both our thoughts and feelings.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

We inhabit an internal world that is subject to diversification. Every day we undergo personal transformation based upon experiences, thoughts, and feelings.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

By talking to yourself every hour of the day, you can direct yourself to think thoughts of courage and happiness, thoughts of power and peace. By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for, you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing.

~ Dale Carnegie

Basic understanding of who were are is through Self Awareness. By understanding our thoughts we can dive deeper into them and get a better understanding of who we are in the process.

~ Matthew Donnelly

I also often ask my guests about what they consider to be their invisible weaknesses and shortcomings. I do this because these are the characteristics that define us no less than our strengths. What we feel sets us apart from other people is often the thing that shapes us as individuals. This may be especially true of writers and actors, many of whom first started to develop their observational skills as a result of being sidelined from typical childhood or adolescent activities because of an infirmity or a feeling of not fitting in. Or so I’ve come to believe from talking to so many writers and actors over the years.

~ Terry Gross

As the expert in knowing yourself, you get to decide what you want to explore in your internal landscape.

~ Lyssa Danehy Dehart

It is in building the best of our abilities that we ultimately destroy the worst of our liabilities.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Give to grow. Read to lead. Smile to celebrate.

~ Seema Brain Openers

The people who make you feel small, unworthy and valueless are toxic people. You can never expect to grow in life by being close to them. Leave them to grow in life.

~ Seema Brain Openers

To realize your potential you must look beyond the end of yourself, realizing that where you end is most likely where you actually begin.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The medal from an old grappling tournament will not serve me today, but the courage I developed in its acquisition will. By investing in yourself, by using all endeavors as a vehicle to shape who we are, we exist in the present moment with a lifetime of growth behind us. I have loved many vehicles throughout the years, Jiu Jitsu more than any other, but the vehicle has, and always will, be a distant second to the driver.

~ Chris Matakas

Only ever doing what feels comfortable is a form of suicide.

~ Oli Anderson

Am I a storm-waster? For it is within the fury of the very storms within which I cower that I find resources for my growth that are entirely absent on calmer days.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

So much of personal development and growth comes down to the decisions you make when you hit a wall. Do you spend your time feeling bad for yourself, or do you invest your time in continuing to build toward your dreams?

~ Andrea Goeglein

Reclined legs don't get fed, they get limp like boiled spaghetti. Walk it out!

~ T.f. Hodge

Life is full of lessons for the success-minded person who keeps his/her eyes open to what is going on.

~ John Patrick Hickey

We should invest on our personal development not only to outgrow challenges but also maximize every opportunity that comes on our way.

~ Assegid Habtewold

Mirrors have three purposes. To show you who you are. To show you who you were. And to show you who you want to be.

~ Dan Pearce

Happiness comes from striving to make tomorrow better than today and being at peace when yesterday was better than today as well.

~ Dan Pearce

Promises, like gardens need weeding from time to time to produce healthy results.

~ Soul Dancer

For business and life, if you are not experiencing growth, you’re possibly dying.

~ Nkem Paul

To say, “I’ve been converted and that’s that,” is to say you have decided to quit growing. If life is about anything, it is about growing. The day I quit changing and learning is the day I die.

~ Steve Goodier

People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

~ Timothy Ferriss

Energy work is priceless. It makes every day extraordinary and transforms the mundane to the holy.

~ Silvia Hartmann

And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.

~ Ralph Ellison

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

~ Kristi Bowman

Self-development is a contradiction in terms Personal development is the way.

~ Frank Ra (Exstatica)

Love is very important, nurse Igor. Love is a gateway emotion. Without it, you cannot fully comprehend and experience things like... vengeance, for instance. Or terror. Loss. Hate. Hate is all you need. Hate means never having to say you're sorry. You can't hate properly without ever having been in love. Because nothing will teach you hate as well as being in love. You can't understand a place without loving it. And it's the act of loving it that teaches you to hate it, as it chips away at your heart with its daily failures and disappointments.

~ Warren Ellis

The moment you doubt your truth is the moment you lose your angelic nature. But don’t worry, nothing is permanent.

~ Charbel Tadros

There is a big difference between listening to an interesting story and recognizing an important one.

~ Lyssa Danehy Dehart

There is an oak tree is inside the acorn seed, but the acorn seed will never become an oak tree unless it is willing to grow and develop

~ Saji Ijiyemi

In order to grow sometimes we must cease striving to meet other people’s expectations and begin establishing new goals that develop our personal potential. If we live a life to satisfy all the direct or implicit anticipations of other people, we end up living a life full of regret because we failed to develop into a complete manifestation of our being.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The oak tree is inside the acorn seed, but the acorn seed will never become the oak tree unless it is willing to grow and develop

~ Saji Ijiyemi

The chaos around you is none of your business: your business is how you feel about it.

~ Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

When people are doing their utmost to upset you, it's probably best to just laugh at them.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

I am sorry.I'm sorry that I feel as if you don't trust me enough to confide me. This is me being selfish even though this isn't about me, it's about you. I'm sorry that it makes me upset that in those times you thought about ending your life, I feel like I didn't cross your mind. I hate myself for thinking you didn't care enough to talk to me about those toxic thoughts that's trying to push you to end everything, because I know myself that's it is hard to share.I hate myself for thinking you didn't care enough to think about how horrible it is going to be for me once I learn what you've done.I'm sorry for feeling like this, it is selfish, I am selfish.I'm sorry for feeling like I'm not a good friend, I know that's now how you think, I'm sorry.I just love you and I'm hurt.

~ Mari

If you don't build a personal brand, someone else will brand you with the wrong label.

~ Richie Norton

A brand is a person that has a voice, evokes emotion and spreads a message.

~ Richie Norton

What you truly own, is what you have inside you. Everything else can be destroyed, robbed or wasted.

~ Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana