Personal Growth Quotes

"I actually grew up in a house in which bees lived in one of the walls, and they lived there 18 years, in fact, so it wasn't a fleeting thing."

- Sue Monk Kidd

"If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it."

- Emma Thompson

"Some people come in your life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons."

- Mother Teresa

"Your grief path is yours alone, and no one else can walk it, and no one else can understand it."

- Terri Irwin

"There’s no such thing as “moving on.” We go forward, trying to find our footing, figuring out how to live—how to love—after such loss."

- Amy Trowbridge-Yates

"Learning patience can be a difficult experience, but once conquered you will find life is easier."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"The older I get, the more I value my ability to be patient."

- Clint Eastwood

"Sometimes things aren’t clear right away. That’s where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead."

- Mary Pierce

"Patience is not the ability to wait. Patience is to be calm no matter what happens, constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities, and have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Learning patience can be a difficult experience, but once conquered, you will find life is easier."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Patience can’t be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it."

- Eknath Easwaran

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

- Henry David Thoreau

"I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better."

- Jim Rohn

""Life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.""

- E.M. Bounds

""Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.""

- R.C. Sproul

"The reality is, my prayers don't change God. But, I am convinced prayer changes me. Praying boldly boots me out of that stale place of religious habit into authentic connection with God Himself."

- Lysa TerKeurst

"Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him the mind of Christ, the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and of prayer. If we really pray, we will become more like God, or else we will quit praying."

- E.M. Bounds

"Learning to walk sets you free. Learning to dance gives you the greatest freedom of all: to express with your whole self the person you are."

- Melissa Hayden

"Dancing allows me to explore myself in so many ways, to learn about my limitations and strengths, my ability to cope with adversity and to go farther than I thought I could. You find out what you’re made of."

- Andrew Asnes

"To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living."

- Alvin Ailey

"There comes a moment in a young artist’s life when he know she has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something."

- Mikhail Baryshnikov

"I consider myself an actress first, a dancer second, and a singer third. Why? Because the dancer needs a reason to move—that’s the actor informing the dancer. So I worked on my acting and gradually developed a singing voice."

- Liza Minnelli

"The journey between who you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place."

- Barbara de Angelis

"To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that’s hard enough."

- Alonzo King

"It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly."

- Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love, after the Bhagavad Gita

"The day she let go of the things that were weighing her down was the day she began to shine the brightest."

- Katrina Mayer

"The day she let go of the things that were weighing her down, was the day she began to shine the brightest."

- Katrina Mayer

"The warrior's path is one of self-discovery and personal growth."

- Unknown

"No matter your style or the quotes you’re sharing, there’s always a font out there to match the aesthetic you want to achieve."