Personal Growth Quotes

"Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding."

- Cheryl Strayed

"If you are always trying to be normal, you’ll never know how amazing you can be."

- Maya Angelou

"Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

- Lolly Daskal

"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

"enough accomplishment self-improvement"

- Cate Bligh

"When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young."

- Maya Angelou

"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 book should take you out of yourself and then stuff you back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit."

- David Sedaris

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading."

- William Styron

"Once you've read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you."

- Louis L'Amour

"Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

- Maya Angelou

"Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity."

- Stephen R. Covey

""We don’t grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves."

- Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system."

- Bruce Lee

"I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies."

- Bruce Lee

"Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own."

- Bruce Lee

"I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that, and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily, and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude."

- Bruce Lee

"The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we allow to gather in our head. All concepts of self-improvement, all actions and paths we take, relate solely to our abstract image of ourselves. Life is limited only by how we really see ourselves and feel about our being. A great deal of pure self-knowledge and inner understanding allows us to lay an all-important foundation for the structure of our life from which we can perceive and take the right avenues."

- Bruce Lee

"I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries... like I do."

- Henry Rollins

"Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best."

- Michael Johnson

"My times become slower and slower, but the experience of the race is unchanged: each race a drama, each race a challenge, each race stretching me in one way or another, and each race telling me more about myself and others."

- George Sheehan

"Doing less is often harder than doing more."

- Inspired by Carolyn Rubenstein

"Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives."

- Tony Robbins

"Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one’s body and train one’s mind."

- Anil Ambani

"Your current conditions do not reflect your ultimate potential, but rather the size and quality of goals upon which you currently are focusing."

- Tony Robbins

"Strive for progress, not perfection."

"Live, learn, love"

"Your potential is unlocked through the door of concentrated effort. Keep it locked on your goals."