Inspiring Growth Quotes to Fuel Your Journey

"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

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

- Ernest Hemingway

"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

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Chinese Proverb

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

"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

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

- Malcolm X

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Vera Wang

"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

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

- Diane von Furstenberg

"The key to growth is acknowledging your fear of the unknown and jumping in anyway."

- Jen Sincero

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

- Stephen Richards

"You become mature when you become the authority of your own life."

- Joseph Campbell

"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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Fulton J. Sheen

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

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."

- Michael Cunningham

"Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people."

- Brian Weiss

"Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands."

- Roy T. Bennett

"People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you’re fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"If you are moving forward in your life, if you are progressing personally, professionally emotionally, spiritually–you will be happy."

- Tony Robbins

"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world."

- Helen Keller

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

- Maya Angelou

"Why are you going to choose failure when success is an option?"

- Jillian Michaels

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

- Eric Butterworth

"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle."

- Napoleon Hill

"I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must also step up the stairs."

- Vaclav Havel

"Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air, new lights, and new truths to enter."

- Amit Ray

"You can do anything you want, just not everything. Pick what you want, work harder than most to get it, and believe in yourself."

- Daina Trout

"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

"Individuals who believe their talents can be developed (through hard work, good strategies, and input from others) have a growth mindset. They tend to achieve more than those with a more fixed mindset (those who believe their talents are innate gifts)."

- Carol Dweck

"Whatever makes you uncomfortable is your biggest opportunity for growth."

- Bryant McGill

"The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul’s growth."

- Marianne Williamson

"Life does not always give you what you want but if you look closely you will see that it gives you what you need for your growth."

- Leon Brown

"The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

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

- Andy Rooney

"Love grows by practice; there is no other way."

- Eknath Easwaran

"One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him."

- Karl A Menninger

"Love can’t mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That’s the only real path to love."

- Leon Uris

"Love is not limited by our relationships but shapes how they flow. Relationships do not define us, but allow us to grow."

- Alan B Jones

"Love grows when you trust that the Universe is on your side."

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Chinese Proverb

"Personal growth is important in all of life's stages. You need to keep growing to deal effectively with others."

- James Stafford

"Real growth is when we flow in balance in all seasons and weather accepting all events and things with openness & gratitude."

- Raghu Ram Ananthoj

"Love yourself enough to create an environment in your life that is conducive to the nourishment of your personal growth. Allow yourself to let go of the people, thoughts, and situations that poison your well-being. Cultivate a vibrant surrounding and commit yourself to making choices that will help you release the greatest expression of your unique beauty and purpose."

- Steve Maraboli

"Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom."

- William George Jordan

"Change and growth is so painful. But it’s so necessary for us to evolve."

- Sarah McLachlan

"Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort."

- Peter McWilliams

"Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."

- Drew Barrymore

"Growth can be painful, change can be painful but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong."

- Charles H. Spurgeon

"Without the dark, there isn’t light. Without the pain, there is no relief."

- Jenny Lawson

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."

- Oprah Winfrey

"I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough."

- Marissa Mayer

"A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult."

- Melinda Gates

"Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me."

- Arianna Huffington

"What’s the greatest lesson a woman should learn? That since day one, she’s already had everything she needs within herself. It’s the world that convinced her she did not."

- Rupi Kaur

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship."

- Little Women

"Perfection is boring. Getting better is where all the fun is."

- Dragos Roua

"The best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself."

- Wallace Wattles

"Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you’ll never grow from it."

- Jim Rohn

"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think!"

- Albert Einstein

"Opportunities don’t happen, you create them."

- Chris Grosser

"I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work and be proud that I tried everything."

- Jon Stewart

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle."

- Steve Jobs

"There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Your career is like a garden. It can hold an assortment of life's energy that yields a bounty for you. You do not need to grow just one thing in your garden. You do not need to do just one thing in your career."

- Jennifer Ritchie Payette

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

- Tim Ferriss

"Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation."

- Clayton Christensen

"No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow if it doesn't."

- James Cash Penney

"Do not wait. The time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."

- George Hérbert

"To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart."

- Thomas Watson

"If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs."

- Dhirubhai Ambani

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

- Henry Ford

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says I’m possible."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."

- Babe Ruth

"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- William James

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking."

- William Butler Yeats

"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

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

- Booker T. Washington

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"Growth is uncomfortable; you have to embrace the discomfort if you want to expand."

- Jonathan Majors

"The journey is never ending. There's always gonna be growth, improvement, adversity; you just gotta take it all in and do what's right, continue to grow, continue to live in the moment."

- Antonio Brown

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

- Jean Vanier

"The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual."

- Samuel Smiles

"Growth is the only evidence of life."

- John Henry Newman

"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

"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."

- Shonda Rhimes

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

- Jane Goodall

"Everything about your life, about your body, grows! Your cells regenerate; your hair, your nails, everything grows for your entire life. And your soul needs exploration and growth."

- Mel Robbins

"The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership."

- Harvey S. Firestone

"The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice."

- George Eliot

"The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness."

- Lao Tzu

"Growth comes from chaos, not order."

- Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

- Calvin Coolidge

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Vidal Sassoon

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

- Gail Sheehy

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Morihei Ueshiba

"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

"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

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

- Warren Buffett

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Newt Gingrich

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Nelson Mandela

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

- Winston Churchill

"Flexibility is the key to stability."

- John Wooden

"The key to success is often the ability to adapt."

- Anthony Brandt

"Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher."

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Michael F. Staley

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Denis Waitley

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

- Émile Coué

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

- Confucius

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

- James A. Froude

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Brian Herbert

"Encourage children to be patient with themselves as they learn and grow. With dedication and hard work, they can become experts in their chosen fields and achieve their goals."

- Helen Hayes

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Tommy Lasorda

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"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

"You can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails."

- Thomas S. Monson

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

- Albert Einstein

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most adaptable to change."

- Charles Darwin

"Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win."

- Max McKeown

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

- Alan Watts

"The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings."

- Kakuzo Okakura

"Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later."

- Bob Goff

"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

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

- Jim Watkins

"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

"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

"Change is inevitable. Growth is optional."

- John C. Maxwell

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John Wooden

"A setback is a setup for a comeback."

- T.D. Jakes

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

- Charles Kingsley

"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

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

- Swati Sharma

"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

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

- C. JoyBell C.

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

- Helmut Schmidt

"The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists."

- Japanese Proverb

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

- James Cash Penney

"The only journey is the journey within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots."

- Victor Hugo

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

- Plato

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

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

- Unknown