Inspiring Quotes About Growth: A Collection to Ignite Your Journey

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

- Edith Wharton

"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

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

- Nedra Glover Tawwab

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

- Chinese Proverb

"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

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

- Jean Vanier

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

- James Allen

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

- Robin Sharma

"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

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

- Frank Sonnenberg

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Viktor Frankl

"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

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

- Frederick Douglass

"What holds most people back isn’t the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves. You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be."

- Russell Simmons

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

- Napoleon Hill

"Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness."

- Eckhart Tolle

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

- Stephen Richards

"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

"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

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

- Shonda Rhimes

"If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want."

- Kevin Ngo

"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

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."

- Vince Lombardi

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity."

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Diane von Furstenberg

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

- Les Brown

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world."

- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."

- Buddah

"It’s your life; you don’t need someone’s permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

"If the people in your circle aren’t contributing to your growth, then you’re not in a circle… you’re in a cage."

- Kianu Starr

"Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success."

- Stephen Covey

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

- Maya Angelou

"Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering."

- Don Miguel Ruiz

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"I don’t have to be what nobody else wants me to be and I am not afraid to be what I want to be."

- Muhammad Ali

"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great."

- Mark Twain

"Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing."

- Brian Weiss

"The more you believed in yourself, the more you could trust yourself. The more you trust yourself, the less you compare yourself to others."

- Roy T. Bennett

"As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking."

- James Allen

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

- Jane Goodall

"We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough."

- Helen Keller

"Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong."

- Ella Fitzgerald

"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."

- John D. Rockefeller

"If you can’t fly, then run if you can’t run, then walk if you can’t walk, then crawl whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Anne Frank

"Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement."

- W. Clement Stone

"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

"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 that 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.

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

- Andy Rooney

"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

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

- Edward Abbey

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

- Jen Sincero

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

- George Eliot

"Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength."

- Sigmund Freud

"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."

- C. JoyBell C.

"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."

- C. JoyBell C.

"The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud --- the obstacles of life and its suffering."

- Goldie Hawn

"A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller."

- Paul Klee

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

- Marcel Proust

"I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"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 person in life that you will always be with the most, is yourself. Because even when you are with others, you are still with yourself, too!"

- C. JoyBell C.

"You try something, it doesn't work, and maybe people even criticize you. In a fixed mindset, you say, 'I tried this, it's over.' In a growth mindset, you look for what you've learned."

- Carol Dweck

"Embarrassment is where growth happens."

- Jaylen Brown

"All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth."

- Paramahansa Yogananda

"Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly."

- Jeff Buckley

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Napoleon Hill

"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

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

- Lao Tzu

"Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don't want to suffer. We don't want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we're living our lives in a very comfortable area. There's no growth in that."

- David Goggins

"Growth comes from chaos, not order."

- Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

"There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder."

- Ronald Reagan

"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."

- Ellen Glasgow

"Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong."

- N. R. Narayana Murthy

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

- Harvey S. Firestone

"Growth is the only evidence of life."

- John Henry Newman

"As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you're doing good in my book."

- Frank Ocean

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

- Samuel Smiles

"Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring."

- Edith Widder

"Growth hacking is a mindset, and those who have it will reap incredible gains."

- Ryan Holiday

"Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession."

- Bo Bennett

"Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers."

- Cesar Chavez

"Workers will need different skills to thrive in the workplace of the future. We’ll see a growing demand for advanced technological skills such as programming. Social, emotional, and higher cognitive skills — such as creativity, critical thinking, and complex information processing — will also be in demand. Growing occupations, meanwhile, will include those with difficult-to-automate activities, such as managers and doctors, as well as care workers and teachers. Training and retraining mid-career workers and new generations for the coming challenges will be another imperative."

- James Manyika

"The shift to lifelong learning is absolutely essential. As the pace of technological change quickens, we need to be sure that employees are keeping up with the right skills to thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. That applies to both technical and soft skills. There will be changes in both areas."

- Zvika Krieger, Head of Technology Policy and Partnerships, Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, World Economic Forum

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark."

- Michelangelo

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

- Winston Churchill

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Émile Coué

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"Dreams don't work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Harry Golden

"Hard work opens doors and shows the world that you are serious about being one of those rare - and special - human beings who use the fullness of their talents to do their very best."

- Robin Sharma

"The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Walt Disney

"Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life."

- Les Brown

"Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there."

- Gale Sayers

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

- Morihei Ueshiba

"Change is inevitable. Growth is optional."

- John C. Maxwell

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Denis Waitley

"The only journey is the journey within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Vidal Sassoon

"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

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Confucius

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

- Michael F. Staley

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

- James A. Froude

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

- Ashley Tisdale

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

- Brian Herbert

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Confucius

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Beyond doing the right thing for their workers, companies have another reason to lean into workforce development initiatives: their own competitiveness. As demand for skills for the intelligent era heat up, so too will a war for talent."

- Sarah Franklin, EVP and GM of Trailhead and Developer Relations, Salesforce

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"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

"Set your goals, follow your dreams, listen to your heart and don't let anything stand in your way."

- Brandy Johnson

"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

"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."

- Pamela Vaull Starr

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

- Thomas Paine

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"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

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

- Tommy Lasorda

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Jim Watkins

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Joshua J. Marine

"A setback is a setup for a comeback."

- T.D. Jakes

"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

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

- Gary Player

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"AI is about enabling machines to augment humans — in other words, to complement human skills — rather than merely replace them. In most cases, AI’s skills are different to a human’s, so we are moving towards a symbiosis of the two."

- Robin Bordoli

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Newt Gingrich

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

- Plato

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Marcus Garvey

"In 1950, only 55% of the working-age population in the U.S. was employed. By 2015, that percentage had risen to 60% — representing a net increase of about 100 million jobs — after many potentially job-killing technologies had been introduced. These included shipping cranes, ATMs, and personal computer spreadsheets. The same could well be true of AI, especially if we put into place the innovations in education that could help people adapt."

- Peter Schwartz

"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."

- W. Clement Stone

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

- Swati Sharma

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

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

- Jimmy Dean

"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Charles Kingsley

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

"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

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

- Robert Collier

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- John Wooden

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

- Elbert Hubbard

"Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

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

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

- Unknown

"You are worthy of all that you dream of and hope for."

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