Personal Growth Quotes

""I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: ‘I served in the United States Navy.’""

- President John F. Kennedy

"Life takes on meaning in the minute-by-minute reality in which we experience ourselves achieving ordinary things."

- Gary Kielhofner, DrPH, OTR, FAOTA

"Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another."

- Angela Duckworth

"We never lose our demons, Mordo. We only learn to live above them."

- Doctor Strange

"You are the product of all who came before you, the legacy of your family."

- Ying Nan

"Everyone fails at who they are supposed to be, Thor. The measure of a person, of a hero…is how well they succeed at being who they are."

- Frigga

"There were five defining moments in my life and as I look back, each provided a lesson which taught me how to live my life, and hopefully teach others as well. [One of them was the] last week of January 1945. Meeting the first Soviet officer after escaping from the Auschwitz death march. Seeing him made me realize what freedom means."

- Werner Coppel

"I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then"

- Lewis Carroll

"You're not the same as you were before, he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness."

- Lewis Carroll

"I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning, said Alice a little timidly; but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

- Lewis Carroll

"The things you learn from sports — setting goals, being part of a team, confidence — that's invaluable. It's not about trophies and ribbons. It's about being on time for practice, accepting challenges and being fearful of the elements."

- Summer Sanders

"To uncover your true potential, you must first find your own limits, and then you have to have the courage to blow past them."

- Picabo Street

"It's not always about being the best; it's about being my personal best and having fun and trying to always stay in a positive place."

- Jamie Anderson

"My sports made me a more focused, sharper, more determined and stronger person than I was before. It’s a mental game — the stronger you are the better you are."

- Kiran Khan

"Focus, discipline, hard work, goal setting and, of course, the thrill of finally achieving your goals. These are all lessons in life."

- Kristi Yamaguchi

"Mum says the best discoveries are when you find you can do something you thought you couldn’t."

- Chilli (Bluey’s Mom)

"The greatest game you can win is won within."

- Lou Holtz

"The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving."

- Ben Hogan

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself"

- Oscar Wilde

"We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are."

- Max de Pree

"And in the end, it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

"The key to martial arts is not just about victory or defeat but about inner growth."

- Shifu

"Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn’t make you who you are, it is the rest of your story that will define who you are."

- Shifu

"One of the beauties of teaching is that there is no limit to one’s growth as a teacher, just as there is no knowing beforehand how much your students can learn."

- Herbert Kohl

"Cancer is a journey, but you walk the road alone. There are many places to stop along the way and get nourishment – you just have to be willing to take it."

- Emily Hollenberg

"To feel fulfilment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, this is the most important thing."

- Alicia Keys

"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."

- Frank Herbert

"Surviving breast cancer redefined who and how I am, although I’m not sure I’d recommend it. Until then, I’d spent a lifetime being a caretaker for everyone around me. From then, I started to put myself first. I had voices at the back of my head telling me whatever I did wasn’t good enough. Now, finally, I’ve silenced them."

- Sheryl Crow

"Life is about moving on, accepting changes and looking forward to what makes you stronger and more complete"

"Progress Not Perfection"