100 Inspirational Quotes About Growth to Motivate Your Personal Journey

"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Ernest Hemingway

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

"Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead."

- Morihei Ueshiba

"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations."

- Anais Nin

"Your life does not get better by chance; it gets better by change."

- Jim Rohn

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

- Carl Bard

"Be the change you want to see in this world."

- Gandhi

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

- Will Durant

"What we think, we become."

- Buddha

"The only way that we can grow is if we change."

- C. JoyBell C.

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

- Jean Vanier

"Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together."

- James Cash Penney

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."

- Gail Sheehy

"Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Maya Angelou

"It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform."

- Roy T. Bennett

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anaïs Nin

"Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential."

- Bruce Lee

"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

"Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Don’t go through life, grow through life."

- Eric Butterworth

"The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself."

- C. JoyBell C.

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

- Albert Einstein

"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

"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

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"Permit yourself to change your mind when something is no longer working for you."

- Nedra Glover Tawwab

"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."

- Les Brown

"It is never too late to be who you might have been."

- George Eliot

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."

- Pele

"Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. You are worthy of all that you dream of and hope for."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Chinese Proverb

"Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become."

- Eli Cohen

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

- Zig Ziglar

"Growing up means learning what life is. When you're little, you have a set of ideals, standards, criteria, plans, outlooks, and you think that you have to sit around and wait for them to happen to you and then life will work. But life isn't like that, for anybody; you can't fall in love with a standard, you have to fall in love with a person. You can't live in a criteria, you have to live your life. You can't wait for your plans to materialize, because they may never materialize the way you think they will. You can't wait to watch your ideals and standards walk up to you, because you can't know what's yours until you have it. I always say, always take the first chance in case you never get a second one, but growing up takes that even one step further, growing up means that you have to hold on to what you have, when you have it, because what you have- that's yours- and all the ideals and criteria you have set in your head, those aren't yours, because those haven't happened to you."

- C. JoyBell C.

"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible."

- Charles Kingsley

"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow."

- Carrie Fisher

"Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life."

- Deborah Day

"Failure is not the opposite of success; it is a stepping stone towards it."

- Sundar Pichai

"Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way."

- Vera Wang

"We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it."

- Rick Warren

"You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experiences that reveals the human spirit."

- E.E. Cummings

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

"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

"Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound."

- James Allen

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Personal development is a major time-saver. The better you become, the less time it takes you to achieve your goals."

- Brian Tracy

"As you start to walk on the way, the way appears."

- Rumi

"Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself."

- Denis Waitley

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

"The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development."

- Robin Sharma

"There’s only one investment that will never go down — an investment in yourself."

- Frank Sonnenberg

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

- Bruce Lee

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

- Viktor Frankl

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

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

"We are either moving forward or moving backward. There is no such thing as standing still."

- Becky Williamson-Martin

"Treat yourself as you are, and you will remain as you are. Treat yourself as you could be, and you will become what you should be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Learn to work harder on yourself than on your job."

- Jim Rohn

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"With confidence, you have won before you have started."

- Marcus Garvey

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

- Albert Einstein

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."

- Tommy Lasorda

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

- Newt Gingrich

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

"If you don't give up on something you truly believe in, you will find a way."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

- Beverly Sills

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vidal Sassoon

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

- Og Mandino

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

"A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence."

- Jim Watkins

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

"It always seems impossible until it's done."

- Nelson Mandela

"The only way to grow is to challenge yourself."

- Ashley Tisdale

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."

- Elon Musk

"A setback is a setup for a comeback."

- T.D. Jakes

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

- Thomas Paine

"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."

- Moliere

"When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They're sent to promote, increase and strengthen you."

- Joel Osteen

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one."

- Elbert Hubbard

"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."

- Duke Ellington

"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything."

- John Wooden

"The harder you work, the luckier you get."

- Gary Player

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

- Thomas A. Edison

"There is no challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself."

- Michael F. Staley

"The best investment you can make is in yourself."

- Warren Buffett

"The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement."

- Helmut Schmidt

"Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better."

- Émile Coué

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."

- James A. Froude

"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."

- Brian Herbert

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

"The expert at anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."

- Marie Curie

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."

- Michelangelo

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something."

- Morihei Ueshiba

"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it."

- Estée Lauder

"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."

- Bruce Lee

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"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

"Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."

- Terry Pratchett

"Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it."

- Andy Rooney

"answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

- Viktor E. Frankl

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

- Christian D. Larson

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."

- Nikos Kazantzakis

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear."

- George Addair

"It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

- Edmund Hillary

"The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do."

- Swati Sharma

"You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"Don’t tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work."

- Arthur Rubinstein

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed no hope at all."

- Dale Carnegie

"The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better."

- Enid Blyton

"It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer."

- Albert Einstein

"Failure is success if we learn from it."

- Malcolm Forbes

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"Believe you can, and you are halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Sun Tzu

"The mind is everything. What you think, you become."

- Buddha

"I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."

- Thomas Edison

"All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them."

- Walt Disney

"Be the change you want to see in the world."

- Gandhi

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."

- H.G. Wells

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference."

- Robert Frost

"Paths are made by walking."

- Franz Kafka

"From error to error, one discovers the entire truth."

- Sigmund Freud

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."

- Isaac Newton

"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."

- Harry Golden

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"All things are difficult before they are easy."

- Thomas Fuller

"Experience is the teacher of all things."

- Julius Caesar

"Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination."

- William Longgood

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."

- Benjamin Spock

"By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better."

- Laverne Cox

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces."

- C. JoyBell C.

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

"My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing."

- Marcel Proust

"Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."

- John Wayne

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John Wooden

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward."

- Conrad Hall

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it."

- Jordan Belfort

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

- Shakespeare

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it. Rather, it’s that we aim too low and we reach it."

- Michelangelo

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

- John F. Kennedy

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t."

- Steve Maraboli

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."

- Wayne Dyer

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

"Change is made of choices, and choices are made of character."

- Amanda Gorman

"The only journey is the journey within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"Care about what other people think, and you will always be their prisoner."

- Lao Tzu

"I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end."

- Daphne du Maurier

"The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down."

- Stephen Richards

"You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it."

- Charles Buxton

"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."

- W.B. Yeats

"Creativity takes courage."

- Henri Matisse

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."

- Charlie Chaplin

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking."

- Voltaire

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

- Fulton J. Sheen

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."

- Angela Davis

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."

- Plato

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"Fall seven times and stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"Don’t give up."

- Robert Tew

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."

- Edward Abbey

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

- John Dewey

"People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

- Rob Siltanen

"A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers."

- Helen Keller

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it."

- Chinese Proverb

"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars."

- Latin proverb

"Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right."

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind."

"We are our choices."

"The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday."

"Mistakes are proof that you’re trying."

"The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it."

- Unknown

"Smart is something you become, not something you are."

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

"Mistakes are proof that you are trying."

"You have only failed if you have given up. Until then, it’s called learning."

"Never let success get to your head. Never let failure get to your heart."

"You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one."

"You're never too young to dream big."

"If plan A didn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters."

"Sometimes you don’t realise the weight of something you’ve been carrying until you feel the weight of its release."