Personal Growth Quotes

"I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger."

- Samuel L. Jackson

"Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower."

- Shigenori Kameoka

"And that’s what it’s like for me in recovery at times. Afraid to take on responsibility, new sponsees or something, or allowing myself to stand up and shine… I’ve got new tools, I’ve got new hope, new love, new respect for myself."

- James Hetfield

"I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake, and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger."

- Samuel L. Jackson

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

- Ernest Hemingway

"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

"We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Chinese Proverb

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"Growth is uncomfortable; you have to embrace the discomfort if you want to expand."

- Jonathan Majors

"The journey is never ending. There's always gonna be growth, improvement, adversity; you just gotta take it all in and do what's right, continue to grow, continue to live in the moment."

- Antonio Brown

"Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness."

- Jean Vanier

"The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual."

- Samuel Smiles

"Growth is the only evidence of life."

- John Henry Newman

"You have to begin to tell the story of your life as you now want it to be and discontinue the tales of how it has been or of how it is."

- Esther and Jerry Hicks

"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Everything about your life, about your body, grows! Your cells regenerate; your hair, your nails, everything grows for your entire life. And your soul needs exploration and growth."

- Mel Robbins

"The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice."

- George Eliot

"The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness."

- Lao Tzu

"Growth comes from chaos, not order."

- Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

"You become mature when you become the authority of your own life."

- Joseph Campbell

"You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making."

- Stephen Richards

"If you don’t behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave."

- Fulton J. Sheen

"Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are."

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

"The important thing is that we must be constantly moving forward – yes, the progressive realization of a predetermined goal. And our growth should never end."

- Og Mandino

"Personal growth is important in all of life's stages. You need to keep growing to deal effectively with others."

- James Stafford

"Encourage children to be patient with themselves as they learn and grow. With dedication and hard work, they can become experts in their chosen fields and achieve their goals."

- Helen Hayes

"Personal growth takes flight on the dragonfly's wings of resilience"

"Be addicted to improving yourself."

- Anonymous