"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
Courage
"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
Learning
"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
Growth
"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
Personal Growth
"We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are."
- Oprah Winfrey
Personal Growth
"Permit yourself to change your mind when something is no longer working for you."
- Nedra Glover Tawwab
Change
"Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still."
- Chinese Proverb
Personal Growth
"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
New Beginnings
"Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness."
- Jean Vanier
Personal Growth
"Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound."
- James Allen
Growth
"The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development."
- Robin Sharma
Success
"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
Growth
"There’s only one investment that will never go down — an investment in yourself."
- Frank Sonnenberg
Personal Growth
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
- Albert Einstein
Balance
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
- Ernest Hemingway
Personal Growth
"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."
- Viktor Frankl
Overcoming Obstacles
"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
Personal Growth
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity
"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
Growth
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Awareness
"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
- Napoleon Hill
Success
"Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness."
- Eckhart Tolle
Growth
"The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down."
- Stephen Richards
Success
"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
Personal Growth
"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
Belief in Self
"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."
- Shonda Rhimes
Personal Growth
"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
Personal Growth
"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
Ambition
"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
Personal Growth
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein
Learning from Mistakes
"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
Determination
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity."
- Amelia Earhart
Determination
"You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness."
- Diane von Furstenberg
Happiness
"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."
- Les Brown
Responsibility
"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw
Personal Growth
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
- Dolly Parton
Optimism
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."
- Maya Angelou
Personal Growth
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Belief in Self
"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world."
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Compassion
"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
Forgiveness
"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
Growth
"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
Growth
"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
Growth
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
- Edith Wharton
Compassion
"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
Growth
"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
Growth
"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
Growth
"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
Growth
"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
Forgiveness
"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
Belief in Self
"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
Growth
"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
- Jane Goodall
Compassion
"We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough."
- Helen Keller
Aspirations
"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
Inspiration
"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
Persistence
"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
Growth
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
- Anne Frank
Inspiration
"Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement."
- W. Clement Stone
Goals
"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
Change
"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.
Growth
"Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it."
- Andy Rooney
Happiness
"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
Self-awareness
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
- Edward Abbey
Growth
"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
Growth
"The key to growth is acknowledging your fear of the unknown and jumping in anyway."
- Jen Sincero
Courage
"The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice."
- George Eliot
Personal Growth
"Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength."
- Sigmund Freud
Transformation
"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.
Growth
"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.
Growth
"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
Growth
"A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller."
- Paul Klee
Growth
"My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing."
- Marcel Proust
Growth
"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
Growth
"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
"Growth comes from chaos, not order."
- Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
Personal Growth
"There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder."
- Ronald Reagan
Growth
"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."
- Ellen Glasgow
Change
"Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong."
- N. R. Narayana Murthy
Growth
"The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership."
- Harvey S. Firestone
Leadership
"Growth is the only evidence of life."
- John Henry Newman
Personal Growth
"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
Growth
"The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual."
- Samuel Smiles
Personal Growth
"Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring."
- Edith Widder
Growth
"Growth hacking is a mindset, and those who have it will reap incredible gains."
- Ryan Holiday
Growth
"Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Growth
"As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession."
- Bo Bennett
Optimism
"Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers."
- Cesar Chavez
Growth
"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.
Growth
"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 S. Dweck
Growth
"Embarrassment is where growth happens."
- Jaylen Brown
Growth
"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
Growth
"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
Growth
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
- John F. Kennedy
Growth
"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle."
- Napoleon Hill
Hard Work
"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
Personal Growth
"The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness."
- Lao Tzu
Personal Growth
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill
Courage
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
- Confucius
Resilience
"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
- Benjamin Franklin
Growth
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
- Confucius
Perseverance
"Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead."
- Morihei Ueshiba
Growth
"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
Motivation
"The only journey is the journey within."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Self-awareness
"There is no substitute for hard work."
- Thomas A. Edison
Hard Work
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."
- Vidal Sassoon
Hard Work
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
- Walt Disney
Aspirations
"The only way to grow is to challenge yourself."
- Ashley Tisdale
Personal Growth
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
- Zig Ziglar
Goals
"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."
- Sam Levenson
Motivation
"Dreams don't work unless you do."
- John C. Maxwell
Goals
"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."
- Harry Golden
Hard Work
"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
Hard Work
"The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them."
- Michelle Obama
Aspirations
"Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there."
- Gale Sayers
Goals
"Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life."
- Les Brown
Aspirations
"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them."
- Walt Disney
Aspirations
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
- Henry David Thoreau
Ambition
"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
Aspirations
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Belief in Self
"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
- Pamela Vaull Starr
Aspirations
"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
Self-awareness
"Set your goals, follow your dreams, listen to your heart and don't let anything stand in your way."
- Brandy Johnson
Aspirations
"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."
- Gail Sheehy
Growth
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Learning
"There is no challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself."
- Michael F. Staley
Personal Growth
"The best investment you can make is in yourself."
- Warren Buffett
Self-improvement
"The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement."
- Helmut Schmidt
Growth
"Your life does not get better by chance; it gets better by change."
- Jim Rohn
Change
"Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself."
- Denis Waitley
Self-improvement
"Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better."
- Émile Coué
Positivity
"Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together."
- James Cash Penney
Teamwork
"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."
- James A. Froude
Self-improvement
"The only way that we can grow is if we change."
- C. JoyBell C.
Change
"Change is inevitable. Growth is optional."
- John C. Maxwell
Change
"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."
- Brian Herbert
Learning
"It always seems impossible until it's done."
- Nelson Mandela
Courage
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."
- Og Mandino
Resilience
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Belief in Self
"A setback is a setup for a comeback."
- T.D. Jakes
Resilience
"The harder you work, the luckier you get."
- Gary Player
Hard Work
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."
- Thomas Paine
Courage
"A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence."
- Jim Watkins
Perseverance
"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
Resilience
"If you don't give up on something you truly believe in, you will find a way."
- Roy T. Bennett
Motivation
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."
- Tommy Lasorda
Determination
"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."
- Pelé
Success
"The expert in anything was once a beginner."
- Helen Hayes
Learning
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill
Success
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
- Steve Jobs
Motivation
"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."
- Newt Gingrich
Perseverance
"With confidence, you have won before you have started."
- Marcus Garvey
Belief in Self
"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible."
- Charles Kingsleigh
Belief
"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Adversity
"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."
- Jimmy Dean
Change
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Aspirations
"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."
- W. Clement Stone
Goals
"Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win."
- Max McKeown
Adaptation
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."
- Alan Watts
Resilience
"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
Adaptation
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."
- Robert Collier
Success
"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
Perseverance
"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
- Benjamin Franklin
Persistence
"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."
- Plato
Leadership
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
- Peter Drucker
Vision
"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
Change
"You can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails."
- Thomas S. Monson
Adaptation
"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."
- Albert Einstein
Adaptation
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most adaptable to change."
- Charles Darwin
Adaptation
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
- C.S. Lewis
Aspirations
"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."
- Zig Ziglar
Aspirations
"The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do."
- Swati Sharma
Self-confidence
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas A. Edison
Learning from Mistakes
"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
Adaptation
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one."
- Elbert Hubbard
Courage
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
- Wayne Gretzky
Taking Risks
"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything."
- John Wooden
Learning from Mistakes
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
- Albert Einstein
Perseverance
"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."
Learning
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind."
Belief in Self
"The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it."
- Unknown
Hard Work
"The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday."
Self-improvement
"You are worthy of all that you dream of and hope for."
Growth