Discover Your Potential with These 77 Personal Growth Quotes
Success isn’t an easy recipe to write…and it’s an even harder one to follow.
And yet; the importance of self-development and personal growth can never be underestimated because they are both essential ingredients in the recipe for success.
To help you on your journey and grant you with the motivation to invest in yourself, here are a curated collection of personal growth quotes that will help you find your true potential.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.Albert Einstein
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.Ralph Waldo Emerson
As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.James Allen
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.Buddha
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.Lao Tzu
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
In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess.The Dalai Lama
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.Eckhart Tolle
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.Buddha
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.Swami Vivekananda
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.Proverb
Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.Vaibhav Shah
Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.Albert Einstein
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.Eleanor Roosevelt
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.David Brinkley
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.David Brinkley
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.Oscar Wilde
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.Bruce Feirstein
When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you.Lolly Daskal
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious – the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.Albert Einstein
You’ll be calm the day you learn to sit alone and do nothing.Maxime Lagacé
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.Marcus Aurelius
The next message you need is always right where you are.Ram Dass
Awakening is not changing who you are but discarding who you are not.Deepak Chopra
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.Swami Vivekananda
The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.Marianne Williamson
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.John Lennon
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.Carl Sagan
All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.Michael John Bobak
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.Vidal Sassoon
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.Bruce Lee
You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.Michael Jordan
Action is the foundational key to all success.Pablo Picasso
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.Abraham Lincoln
What hurts today makes you stronger tomorrow.Jay Cutler
If something stands between you and your success, move it. Never be denied.Dwayne Johnson
Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.John Wooden
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.Gandhi
Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.Arnold Schwarzenegger
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.Nelson Mandela
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance, they have traveled from the point where they started.Henry Ward Beecher
It's very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you're not perfect.E.L. James
You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow.Idowu Koyenikan
A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.Jillian Michaels
Your inner strength is your outer foundation.Allan Rufus
If pain doesn't lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.Katerina Stoykova Klemer
Let him who would move the world first move himself.Socrates
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.Leonardo Da Vinci
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.Gandhi
It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be.Sanhita Baruah
Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.Jordan B. Peterson
We must become what we wish to teach.Nathaniel Branden
The Golden Rule of Personal Growth
Whatever it is you are trying to succeed at, working hard, practicing self-discipline, all the while taking inspiration from some of the world’s greatest minds will play a major role in seeing you achieve your goals.