Personal Growth Quotes

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

- Kristi Yamaguchi

"Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior."

- Juvenal

"The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear."

- Daniel Defoe

"April is the month of rebirth, where old dreams bloom anew."

- Sharon Hinck

"The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step."

- Brandon Sanderson

"If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan and guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

- Jim Rohn

"Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become an architect of your future."

- Robin Sharma

"For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn't end."

- Michelle Obama

"Our lives are stories in which we write, direct and star in the leading role. Some chapters are happy while others bring lessons to learn, but we always have the power to be the heroes of our own adventures."

- Joelle Speranza

"We are not our best intentions. We are what we do."

- Amy Dickinson

"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today."

- Mikhail Gorbachev

"Every master was once a disaster."

- David T.S Wood

"Your focus should be on becoming a type of person you want to be, not a specific goal."

- James Clear

"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."

- Henry David Thoreau

"My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle."

- Patty Duke

"That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren’t ready, then you weren’t ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that."

- Norah Vincent

"You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously."

- Sophia Bush

"For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong."

- Bill W.

"a destination, but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going."

- Noam Shpancer

"When I’m not feeling my best I ask myself, "What are you gonna do about it?" I use the negativity to fuel the transformation into a better me."

- Beyonce

"May your journey be full of discovery, and may you find beauty in unexpected places."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be."

- Shakti Gawain

"We have to be whole people to find whole love."

- Cheryl Strayed

"You made my heart break and that made me who I am."

- Little Mix

""Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being.""

- Jean-Yves Leloup

""When love ends, don’t mourn the loss; celebrate the lessons it brought and the strength it ignited within you.""

- Dodinsky

"Keep growing"

"Recovery is not one and done. It is a lifelong journey that takes place one day, one step at a time."

"Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming."

- Unknown

"In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself."