30 Motivating Growth Mindset Quotes

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Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are acculated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called life!
Allan Rufus

Have a growth mindset. You’ll get better if you’re willing to learn.
Tom Bilyeu​

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Confucius

A growth mindset is perseverant, patient, and playful. A fixed mindset is lazy, impatient, and fearful.
Maxime Lagacé​

But if you really want to move forward in life and grow through what you go through, then you have to face the ugly… While your brain would much rather compartmentalize or suppress any uncomfortable emotions, that’s not helpful.
Karen M. Allen​

Bad chapters can still create a story that ends well. Let your past be part of your story, not your identity.
Trent Shelton

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong.
N.R. Narayana Murthy

You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow.
Idowu Koyenikan

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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

Challenges are an opportunity to test you and rise to the next level.
Angelica Montrose

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy

Look for the good in every situation, seek the valuable lesson in every setback, look for the solution to every problem. Think and talk continually about your goals.
Brian Tracy

Happy is he who makes daily progress and who considers not what he did yesterday but what advance he can make today.
St. Jerome

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.
John C. Maxwell

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
George Whitefield

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When we stop growing, we stop living and start existing.
Warren Wiersbe

Don’t go through life, grow through life.
Eric Butterworth

Be patient with yourself. You are growing stronger every day.
Robert Tew

The man who views the world at 50 the same he did at 20 has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Babe Ruth

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.
Roy T. Bennett

Life keeps throwing me stones. And I keep finding the diamonds.
Ana Claudia Antunes

Sometimes in life we take a leap of faith. Remember, the leap is not about getting from one side to the other. It’s simply about taking the leap... and trusting the air, the universal breath, will support your wings so that you may soar.
Kristi Bowman

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Will Durant

Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
Herbert Otto

Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.
Doug Firebaugh