Personal Growth Quotes

"It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs."

- Jillian Michaels

"Being a drug addict in recovery is actually a great place to be because you’re forced to be looking at the rancid layers of the onion that you’ve been carrying around for a lifetime. Whatever degree of struggle it offers me, I’m actually grateful for. It keeps me working towards change, it gives me the desire for change"

- Anthony Kiedis

"The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."

- Muhammad Ali

"With the start of January, embrace the journey of self-discovery and unleash your true potential."

- Maxime Lagacé

"Here’s to growing a little bit every single day but doing it in your own damn way."

- Mercedes Lucero

"I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list. Like for example, I'm still beyond obsessed with the winter season and I still start putting up strings of lights in September. I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers. But some new things I've fallen in love with -- mismatched everything. Mismatched chairs, mismatched colors, mismatched personalities. I love spraying perfumes I used to wear when I was in high school. It brings me back to the days of trying to get a close parking spot at school, trying to get noticed by soccer players, and trying to figure out how to avoid doing or saying anything uncool, and wishing every minute of every day that one day maybe I'd get a chance to win a Grammy. Or something crazy and out of reach like that. ;) I love old buildings with the paint chipping off the walls and my dad's stories about college. I love the freedom of living alone, but I also love things that make me feel seven again. Back then naivety was the norm and skepticism was a foreign language, and I just think every once in a while you need fries and a chocolate milkshake and your mom. I love picking up a cookbook and closing my eyes and opening it to a random page, then attempting to make that recipe. I've loved my fans from the very first day, but they've said things and done things recently that make me feel like they're my friends -- more now than ever before. I'll never go a day without thinking about our memories together."

- Taylor Swift

"It’s about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out."

- Jodi Picoult

"The years will rush by, and one day you will be watching your son as a man and feeling incredibly proud that he is caring, safe, making a contribution, and hopefully going far beyond you in the scope of his life."

- Steve Biddulph

""Children are not things to be molded but are people to be unfolded.""

- Jess Lair

"Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way."

- Emma Chase

"The best part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way."

- Emma Chase

"It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else."

- John Waters

"A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit."

- David Sedaris

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one."

- George R.R. Martin

"It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it."

- Oscar Wilde

"Thursday is the day to celebrate your successes and learn from your failures so you can lay the groundwork for great things to come."

- Miguel B. Sager

"I accumulated small but consistent habits that ultimately led to results that were unimaginable when I started."

- James Clear

"Manhood is about owning your flaws and choosing growth anyway."

"Small steps lead to big transformations—take that step today."

"I am growing, and I am going at my own pace."

"Sobriety is a journey, not a destination."

"I am becoming who I want to be."

"Growth is growth, no matter how small"

"We are all a work in progress"

"Road trips aren’t measured by mile markers, but by moments."

"The journey changes you; it should change you."

"Long drives are the best way to cleanse your mind and rediscover your passion for life."

"Every glance at the mirror is an opportunity to meet yourself anew."

"The first step to growth is recognizing the face that stares back at you."

"Mirrors reveal not just who we are, but who we can become."