Personal Growth Quotes

In my many years of working with people, I have never seen things change by chance, you have to work it out yourself.... life really sucks but YOU have what it takes to change it.

~ Nkem Paul

Growth or stagnation? There is no in-between. Life always seeks more of itself and death picks up the slack.

~ Christopher Babson

The leader acknowledges and eradicates the weeds in the garden, but keeps vision on the beauty they are creating and not on the weeds they are destroying

~ Christopher Babson

If you don’t know exactly where you are going (and why),that is exactly where you will end up.

~ Christopher Babson

If you don't know exactly what you want, that is exactly what you will get.

~ Christopher Babson

If you are going to find work worth doing - a vocation to fulfill and challenge you - you will have to encounter a reality bigger than yourself. It may not be what others say it should be or what you think, but it will come if you are looking for it... At times, the work you're called to do will be hard and confusing, but if you press in, you will see the purpose behind the pain. You will see how the whole experience is causing you to grow. And you will thank God for the whole journey.

~ Jeff Goins

Use the information you’ve been given as an individual, but NEVER let what you’ve heard or read or experienced in the past prevent you from answering the call on your life. You are responsible for your life. That includes the voice inside you and everything it calls you to do. Don’t ignore that voice to follow rules that don’t fit. When a jacket doesn’t fit anymore, it’s time to donate it. Same principle applies for rules which no longer serve you. You don’t have to curse the rules or condemn them. In fact, there might be someone else who would benefit from them at the exact moment you no longer need them. Just step into all that you can be and all that you can do.

~ Stephen Lovegrove

While you might think the choices that leave no regrets behind are the minimal ones and the casual ones and the safe ones, I believe the opposite is true. Regret happens when we are still left with “what if.” Regret is the result of leaving a story within you still untold, a song inside of you never sung, a touch unique to your personhood that never was felt by another. When you lay everything on the line because you believe that much that the life you have been given is the utmost calling to be answered, you don’t regret it.

~ Stephen Lovegrove

Where your soul meets your purpose is the azimuth known as your passion and from there you can plot points of inspiration and achievable goals.

~ Donavan Nelson Butler

I turned into a swamp of inactivity, and because of this no one was able to see the gems in my depths.

~ Osama Alomar

Is there a price too great to pay for your own happiness? What is the price that you are willing to pay for your own happiness?

~ Lenon Honor

Self-esteem is important because it sets up a powerful cycle of personal growth and willingness to take risks.

~ Ken Jennings

Modesty isn’t always a virtue, it can be a hindrance, a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Bad habits are like having a sumo wrestler in the back of your canoe rowing the opposite direction.

~ J. Loren Norris

Getting stuck in the past and whining about who had hurt us hampers our personal growth and submerges us in the sea of self-compassion.

~ Balroop Singh

The more we can embrace failure, the more we will be able to open to it and the more confident and resilient we will become.

~ Karen Kimsey-House

The elevator to success broke a long time ago, the problem is too many people are too lazy to take the stairs.

~ Jacob Maldonado

A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.

~ Jillian Michaels

It's important to undermine yourself and create a level of difficulty so the work doesn't come too easily. The more comfortable you get, the more money you earn, the more successful you are, the harder it is to create situations where you have to prove yourself and make yourself not just want it, but need it. The stakes should always feel high.

~ Carrie Brownstein

Every failure is an opportunity for your personal growth.

~ Sivaprakash Sidhu

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

Sometimes… Sometimes doubt is the opposite of faith, but sometimes doubt can be a pathway to faith. Sometimes weakness is the opposite of strength, but sometimes weakness can be the pathway to strength. Sometimes addiction is the opposite of sobriety, but sometimes addiction can be the pathway to sobriety. Sometimes infidelity is the opposite of fidelity, but sometimes infidelity can be a pathway to fidelity. Sometimes failure is the opposite of success, but sometimes failure can be the pathway to success.

~ David W. Jones

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

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

~ Nelson Mandela

There is darkness inside all of us, though mine is more dangerous than most. Still, we all have it—that part of our soul that is irreparably damaged by the very trials and tribulations of life. We are what we are because of it, or perhaps in spite of it. Some useit as a shield to hide behind, others as an excuse to do unconscionable things. But, truly, the darkness is simply a piece of the whole, neither good nor evil unless you make it so. Ittook a witch, a war, and a voodoo queen to teach me that.

~ Jenna Maclaine

A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.

~ Sydney J. Harris

And it makes you think. Even things that have been the same for years and years can change. Maybe I can change. I can bring my own wall down, and let people in.

~ Rae Earl

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

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

~ Cliff Fadiman

What I'm primarily saying,' he says, 'is that this is a time for knowledge assimilation, not backstabbing. We learned a lesson, you and I. We personally grew. Gratitude for this growth is an appropriate response. Gratitude, and being careful never to make the same mistake twice.

~ George Saunders

There is no condition so severe that you cannot reverse itby choosing different thoughts. However, choosing differentthoughts requires focus and practise. If you continue to focusas you have been, to think as you have been, and to believeas you have been, then nothing in your experience will change~ from 'Ask And It Is Given' ~

~ Mary Ann Hickman

The purpose of that apple tree is to grow a little new wood each year. That is what I plan to do.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Her stare fixed me. Without rancour and without regret; without triumph and without evil; as Desdemona once looked back on Venice. On the incomprehension, the baffled rage of Venice. I had taken myself to be in some way the traitor Iago punished, in an unwritten sixth act. Chained in hell. But I was also Venice; the state left behind; the thing journeyed from.

~ John Fowles

People whose minds are not strengthened for endurance are by no means always unintelligent. They simply have never stopped to think that the use of the mind for the purpose of growth is a necessary part of a God-pleasing lifestyle.

~ Gordon Macdonald

True sacrifice is merely self-control.

~ David W. Stevens

I may not know what my heart truly holds, but who does? I think we're all mysteries, even to ourselves.

~ Carolyn Ives Gilman

A person devoted to attaining self-realization would be foolish to ignore the well-intended advice of people whom care about them. Although it is essential for each of us to seek individual growth, other people can offer astute personal observations that might otherwise elude us.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The more people grow, the more they attain personal mastery. They become assets to the organization, not liabilities..

~ Assegid Habtewold

Personal essay writing that incites the mind and instigates personal growth involves examination and re-examination, a process of noticing and reflecting upon what a person perceives. Essayistic writing is an osmotic process wherein a person intuitively absorbs information and ideas, allows inchoate thoughts to gestate in the unconscious mind, and then consciously places the emergent strands of language and logic into an orderly and expressive format.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster