600 Best Self Growth Quotes To Live By (2023)

1. “Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ”

2. “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. ” – Buddha

3. “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. ” – Lao Tzu

4. “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.” 

5. “Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth. ” – Ian K. Smith

6. “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”

7. “Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. ”

8. “I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me. I’m either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. ”

9. “The objects in our system are, instead, a help to the child himself. He chooses what he wants for his own use, and works with it according to his own needs, tendencies, and special interests. In this way the objects become a means of growth. ”

10. “In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by them.” - Robert Heinlein

11. “Be patient with yourself. You are growing stronger every day. The weight of the world will become lighter…and you will begin to shine brighter. Don’t give up. ” – Robert Tew

12. “Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?” –Shannon L. Alder

13. “For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.  No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.”

14. “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

15. “So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow. ” – Rainbow Rowell

16. “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. ”

17. “The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday. You do that by focusing on what you can do today to improve and grow. ”

18. “As you grow in self-esteem, your face, manner, way of talking and moving will tend naturally to project the pleasure you take in being alive. ” – Nathaniel Branden

19. “Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top. ”

20. “Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis. ” – Zig Ziglar

21. “Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself. ” ― Julia Cameron

22. You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.” ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

23. “The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called ‘the present.” - Alice Morse Earle

24. “In stressful times, it’s okay to not be perfect. Cut yourself some slack. Because right now, you might not be your best self, but you are growing and you are trying your best. And that is good enough. ” – Ashley Hetherington

25. “It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree — make sure you understand the fundamental principles, i.e. the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves or there is nothing for them to hang on to.” - Elon Musk

26. “If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. ”

27. “The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. ”

28. “The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong. ”

29. “Essential advice for the gardener: grow peas of mind, lettuce be thankful, squash selfishness, turnip to help thy neighbor, and always make thyme for loved ones. ” Author Unknown

30. “With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. ” — Wayne Dyer

31. “You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. If you want to reach your goals and fulfill your potential, become intentional about your personal growth. It will change your life. ” ― Jim Rohn

32. “My personal growth stems from the humility with which I navigate the world, namely with a reverence for all of the knowledge that I’ve yet to learn but that is out there available to me. ” – Gad Saad

33. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. ” -Barack Obama

34. “With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. ” – Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

35. “Leaning back in my recliner each night, staring at the ceiling, I tried to settle myself. I told myself: Life is growth. You grow or you die. WE”

36. “Try to forget yourself in the service of others. For when we think too much of ourselves and our own interests, we easily become despondent. But when we work for others, our efforts return to bless us. ”

37. “Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.” –Bo Bennett

38. “The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” –Alan Watts

39.  “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you…never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. ” - Harriet Beecher Stowe

40. I hope that my daughter grows up empowered and doesn’t define herself by the way she looks but by qualities that make her an intelligent, strong, and responsible woman. — Isaiah Mustafa

41. “You become who you surround yourself with. You become what you consume. If you find yourself in a slump or feel as though you’re living in a negative space, take a good hard look at who and what you see every day. ’’ – Rachel Hollis

42. “Don’t let rejection create self-doubt. The founder of Starbucks was turned down by 217 of the 242 investors he initially spoke with. ” -Elizabeth Galbut

43. If you are a mom of an autistic child, you know that every day is a challenge. But it is also an opportunity to grow stronger not just for yourself but also for your family

44. “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. ”

45. “In order to be knowledgeable in these changing times, we must pursue a constant program of self-improvement, a never-ending journey into new fields of knowledge and learning.” - Og Mandino

46. “No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.”

47. “Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and good things will be yours. ”

48. “Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. ”

49. “Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you're grown up. Growing up means being patient, holding your temper, cutting out the self-pity, and quitting with the righteous indignation

50. “Growth is actually contagious, so if you want to reach your goals, you’ve got to get around people who are going in the same direction you want to be going, and you will catch the success. ” — Dr. Henry Cloud

51. “When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points. ” –Confucius

52. “The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer/statesman

53. The little things, like taking time for yourself, make your happiness grow. Build a strong foundation, and you’ll reap bigger benefits down the road. The strongest foundation is built on a solid set of values

54. Today is a day to celebrate, and not a day to complain. I have always grown to be a better person as each day passes by. I wish myself happy days ahead. Happy natal anniversary to me

55. “Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. ” – Margaret J. Wheatley

56. “Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. ” — Herbert Otto Gille

57. “’What is’ is more important than ‘what should be.’ Too many people are looking at ‘what is’ from a position of thinking ‘what should be’.”

58. “Cultivate optimism by committing yourself to a cause, a plan or a value system. You'll feel that you are growing in a meaningful direction which will help you rise above day-to-day setbacks. ”

59. This has been my best school year ever because you’ve been my best teacher ever. Thank you for helping me learn and grow into the best version of myself

60. “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ”

61. “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”

62. “It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on

63. “Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you lived through it. Honor your path. Trust your journey. Learn, grow, evolve, become. ” – Creig Crippen

64. “Self-care is the number one solution to helping somebody else. If you are being good to yourself and your body and your psyche, that serves other people better, because you will grow strong enough to lift someone else up. ”

65. “Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self. ” ― Karen Salmansohn

66. “The purpose of our spiritual journey is not to replace the darkness with light, rather it’s to integrate and honor all the parts of ourselves… all of life’s energies. ” — Deb Blum

67. “Try to forget yourself in the service of others.  For when we think too much of ourselves and our own interests, we easily become despondent.  But when we work for others, our efforts return to bless us.”

68. Building a good foundation for life is an important step in growing as a person. It’s more than just education and learning from others; it’s about developing a sense of self-value and understanding who you are

69. “As you grow in self-esteem. your face. manner. way of talking and moving will tend naturally to project the pleasure you take in being alive. ” – Nathaniel Branden

70. “Self-care is the number one solution to helping somebody else. If you are being good to yourself and your body and your psyche, that serves other people better, because you will grow strong enough to lift someone else up. ” — Mary Lambert

71. “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. ”

72. “Whenever you are going through life’s challenges, remember that for iron to be cast into its desired form, it must first go through intense heat. ”

73. Unless you learn to face your own shadows, you will continue to see them in others, because the world outside you is only a reflection of the world inside you. ” — Carl Jung

74. “Now make your idea grow. Think about it. Tie the idea to related ideas. Read anything you can find that is in any way akin to your idea. Investigate all angles. Then, when the time is ripe, put it to work for yourself, your job, your future. ”

75. “It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”

76. “For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. ”

77. “Friendship with one’s self is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. ” – Eleanor Roosevelt

78. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. — Jack Welch

79. “Grow the “service first” attitude, and watch money take care of itself. Give people more than they get expect to get. ” – David J. Schwartz

80. “Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. ” –Bo Bennett

81. “Living is a process of developing oneself. Without experiencing pain from disconcerting periods of our lives, we would be different person, perhaps a lesser person. ” ― Kilroy J. Oldster

82. “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. ” - Albert Einstein

83.  “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

84. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” - Henry Ford

85. “Leadership grows like tall trees. It needs both toughness and flexibility - toughness for accountability - flexibility to adapt changes with a compassionate & caring heart for self and others. ”

86. “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

87. “If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more.” — Brian Koslow

88. “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

89. “No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought. ”

90. “Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU. ”

91. “Having healthy boundaries not only requires being able to say “no”, but also being willing and able to enforce that “no” when necessary. ” ― Jessica Moore

92. “In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by them. ” - Robert Heinlein

93. “If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It’s about them. ” – Jack Welch

94. “I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis is fatal. ”

95. “Facing the fear of rejection and humiliation is critical for self-growth and no one is ever happy or content until they venture outside themselves to learn what dwells in other people’s hearts. ’ – Kilroy J. Oldster

96. “People are always blaming circumstances for what they are.  I don’t believe in circumstances.  The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.”

97. “Staying silent is like a slow-growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. ”

98. Guilt is toxic. Reliving the same mistake over and over again is torture. Constantly criticising and blaming yourself is bullying. Break free of this cycle. Reflect. Learn. Grow. Love yourself. Forgive yourself

99. “Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. When you occupy it, step into it consciously, you live it. ”

100. You’ve made a mistake already today. You will make another mistake again tomorrow. We all do. But hopefully, that doesn’t stop you from learning and growing and trying your best to become the best version of yourself possible

101. “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

102. “There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. ”  – Nelson Mandela 

103. “'First things first' might be a cliche, but it's a useful one that means prioritizing what matters most to you and believing there is no wrong answer. ” - Stacey Abrams

104. “Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. It will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.”

105. “In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.”

106. I have so many wonderful memories of you playing house, dressing dolls, reading books, and learning how to dance. As you grow older, I comfort myself that there are so many more wonderful memories to come

107. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. —Jack Welch

108. “So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.” 

109. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. - Jack Welch

110. “We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success; we often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never makes a mistake never made a discovery.”

111. “This is not the moment to wilt into the underbrush of your insecurities. You’ve earned the right to grow. You’re going to have to carry the water yourself. ” —Cheryl Strayed

112. “It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies. ”

113. “Your thoughts form your world. What you focus on in your life grows, what you think about expands and what you dwell on determines your destiny. Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. ”

114. “If you think I’m the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you’re the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something, and grow wiser. ”

115. “It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. ”

116. “The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.”

117. “You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won’t succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy. ”

118. “There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. ” – Nelson Mandela

119. “Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. It is being ‘wholly’ and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”

120. “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. ”

121. “The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one’s own opinions, and value others that deserve it. ”

122. “I studied the lives of great men and women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work. ”

123. “Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objectives in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.”

124. “The key to ultimate happiness and fulfillment lies within our own transformation. The more we learn and grow and evolve as individuals, the more we will find happiness and satisfaction in relationships, work and life. ” ― Kristi Bowman

125. Reflect on the meaning of the quotes: Once you’ve found some quotes, take some time to reflect on their meaning. What do they mean to you? How do they relate to your current situation and goals?

126. “The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges. ”

127. “You will encounter misguided people from time to time. That’s part of life. The challenge is to educate them when you can, but always to keep your dignity and self-respect and persevere in your personal growth and development. ” – Bernice King

128. “When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars.” 

129. “I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you’re a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you’ll win — if you don’t you won’t. ”

130. “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

131. “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely. ”

132. “If you are moving forward in your life, If you are progressing personally, professionally emotionally, spiritually – you will be happy. ”

133. “[Don’t] let anyone convince you that your dream, your vision to be an entrepreneur, is something that you shouldn’t do. What often happens is that people who are well meaning, who really care for us, are afraid for us and talk us out of it.” 

134. “My obsession with pineapples nearly drove me mad. I dreamt of the days when I would be grown and able to buy a whole carton for myself alone. Although”

135. “Examination of our past is never time-wasting. Reverberations from the past provide learning rubrics for living today. ” — Kilroy J. Oldster

136. “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. ”

137. “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

138. “We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.” –Maxwell Maltz

139. This is not the moment to wilt into the underbrush of your insecurities. You’ve earned the right to grow. You’re going to have to carry the water yourself. - Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things

140. “During this period of growth [childhood] the child learns spontaneously, without tiring; he observes the things around him (one might even say he studies them) and absorbs them, thereby invigorating himself. ”

141. “I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.” 

142. “If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”

143. “By improving yourself. the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still. ” – Benjamin Franklin

144. “We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before “arriving. ” – Napoleon Hill

145. “If you want to find the trail, if you want to find yourself, you must explore your dreams alone. You must grow at a slow pace in a dark cocoon of loneliness so you can fly like wind, like wings, when you awaken. ”

146. “The top players in every field think differently when all the marbles are on the line. Great performers focus on what they are doing, and nothing else…They let it happen, let it go. They couldn’t care less about the results. ” – John Eliot

147. “Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.” - Earl Nightingale

148. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. ”

149. “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

150. “You are too great an entity to keep yourself all to yourself: purposefulness in life comes through sharing what you have to offer with others. ” – Kain Ramsay

151.  “The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential…these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. ” - Confucius

152. “Be a reflection of what you’d like to receive. If you want love, give love. If you want truth, be truthful. What you give out will always return. ” – Kristen Butler

153. “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. ”

154. “If you are moving forward in your life, ifyou are progressing personally, professionally emotionally, spiritually–you will be happy. ” – Tony Robbins

155. “When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars. ”

156. “Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objectives in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation. ”

157. “Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting, and in every other pursuit get there by following conscientiously and continuously a plan for self-development and growth. ”

158.  “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

159. I celebrate myself today as I turn a year older. My wish today is that I grow to be the very person I have always wanted to be. Happy born day to my humble self

160. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. ” – Jack Welch

161. “The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called ‘the present. ” - Alice Morse Earle

162. “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. ”

163. “The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am.  Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.”

164. “Everything moves, nothing rests. We live in an ocean of motion. Everything is the expression of the same thing: Energy, at a different rate of vibration.”

165. “The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”

166. “You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.” - Jim Rohn

167. “If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward” -Martin Luther King Jr

168. “The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges. ” – Martin Luther King Jr

169. “If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don't blame other people for your problems. ”

170. “You are here, alive and awake and for whatever reasons you have fought your battles, it’s time to start focusing on what strengths pulled you up when the entire world had knocked you down. That’s where the virtue in self grows. ” ― Nikki Rowe

171. “You must change certain thought processes, actions, and surround yourself with the right people that will encourage your growth, enlightenment, and state of awareness. ”

172. “Pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence. ” - Frida Kahlo

173. “Success is every minute you live. It’s the process of living. It’s stopping for the moments of beauty, of pleasure; the moments of peace. Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of the journey. ”

174. “I hear babies cry, I watch them grow, They’ll learn much more, Than I’ll ever know. And I think to myself, What a wonderful World” – Louis Armstrong “What a Wonderful World”

175. “Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. ” — Margaret J. Wheatley

176. “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

177. Even when I didn’t believe in myself, you saw beyond the surface, and never have up on me. Thank you for your patience and love to see me grow and unleash the giant within. I am forever grateful to you, Sir

178. “As you take steps to expand your awareness, you will naturally find yourself harnessing your mind’s infinite power to create greater health, happiness, and love in your life. ” — Deepak Chopra

179. “It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack. ”

180. “Jesus taught that spiritual maturity is never an end in itself. Maturity is for ministry! We grow up in order to give out. It is not enough to keep learning more and more. We must act on what we know and practice what we claim to believe. ”

181. “Success is not measured by what a man accomplished, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”

182. “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. ”

183. “The purpose of dharma is to help your mind to expand, to grow, to clarify. It should uphold us and create an inner sense of peace, joy, and clarity. ” — Tenzin Palmo

184. “The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use, and works with it according to his own needs, tendencies and special interests. In this way, the objects become a means of growth. ”

185. “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.” –Socrates

186. “If you realize that you’re the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don’t blame other people for your problems. ” ~ Robert Kiyosaki

187. “Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about. ” - Earl Nightingale

188. “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

189. “Whenever you are going through life’s challenges, remember that for iron to be cast into its desired form, it must first go through intense heat.” 

190. “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

191. “Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities.  The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.”

192. “Success is every minute you live.  It’s the process of living.  It’s stopping for the moments of beauty, of pleasure; the moments of peace.  Success is not a destination that you ever reach.  Success is the quality of the journey.”

193. “You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. ” - Jim Rohn

194. “The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday. You do that by focusing on what you can do today to improve and grow. ” — John Maxwell

195. “I think the crazy emotions are the ones that help you grow into who you’re going to be someday and challenge you, and teach you things about yourself. ”. . . . . Taylor Swift

196. “Self-reflection is a humbling process. It’s essential to find out why you think, say, and do certain things…. then better yourself. ” – Sonya Teclai

197. “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.”

198. “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, ...

199. “You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. If you want to reach your goals and fulfil your potential, become intentional about your personal growth. It will change your life. ” – Jim Rohn

200. “You do not fail in life, you only produce results, and you have the right to learn and grow from any results that you produce. ” –Wayne Dyer

201. “Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself.” - Edmund Lee

202. “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

203. “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

204. “Self-care is the number one solution to helping somebody else. If you are being good to yourself and your body and your psyche, that serves other people better because you will grow strong enough to lift someone else up. ”- Mary Lambert

205. “We find it normal for a child to be afraid of the dark, but we should never find it normal for an adult to be afraid of the light. ” - Robin Sharma

206. “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. ”

207. “As you take steps to expand your awareness, you will naturally find yourself harnessing your mind’s infinite power to create greater health, happiness, and love in your life.” — Deepak Chopra

208. “The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one’s own opinions, and value others that deserve it.”

209. “If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. ” — Brian Tracy

210. “It was nothing like what I’d dreamed of when I was a little girl—what I had hoped for myself growing up. But it was the only life I had, and it was mine. The days of waiting around for someone else to ride in and save the day for me were over. ”

211. “If you don’t have peace, it isn’t because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you. ” ― John C. Maxwell

212. “Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.”

213. “In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing. ”

214. “It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.” 

215. “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

216. “In order to be knowledgeable in these changing times, we must pursue a constant program of self-improvement, a never-ending journey into new fields of knowledge and learning. ” - Og Mandino

217. “Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.  It moves stones, it charms brutes.  Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.”

218. “Every day the clock resets. Your wins don't matter. Your failures don't matter. Don't stress on what was, fight for what could be. “ -Sean Higgins

219.  “One can choose to go back toward safety or toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. ” —Abraham Maslow

220. “Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time and energy needed to develop yourself.” Denis Waitley. “I have discovered in life that ...

221. “It’s hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing ‘right,’ which is probably a survival behavior learned from growing up in a crazy family. It feels like you will actually disappear. ” ~ Melody Beattie

222. “To grow yourself, start from knowing yourself.” – Anonymous. Self-awareness is essential to living a happy and fulfilled life. Expanding your knowledge is one ...

223. “Beginning today, set an intention and a relentless focus on living your life as the greatest person you can be, in all situations. ” — Brendon Burchard

224. “The greatest gift you can give yourself is the gift of self-improvement. The only person you’re competing against is yourself. ” – Unknown

225. “Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weakness … on your powers, instead of your problems. ”

226. To fulfil God’s commandment to grow in him, church attendance is paramount. The more you spend time in his presence, the more you immerse yourself in him

227. “Create an ideal of the person you want to be and assume that you are already that person. If this assumption is persisted in until it becomes your dominant feeling, the attainment of your ideal is inevitable. ” - Neville Goddard

228. “So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow. ”

229. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. ” -Harriet Tubman

230. “Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting & in every other pursuit get there by following conscientiously & continuously a plan for self-development & growth. ”

231. “Your personal development goals can lead you forward to a more rewarding life despite challenges, pitfalls or trials. You do have a choice and you do have the option. ” — Byron Pulsifer

232. “’What is’ is more important than ‘what should be. ’ Too many people are looking at ‘what is’ from a position of thinking ‘what should be’. ”

233. “No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. ”

234. “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. ” – Albert Einstein

235. “We find it normal for a child to be afraid of the dark, but we should never find it normal for an adult to be afraid of the light.” - Robin Sharma

236. “Am I selfish for wanting to be selfish? Yes and everyone has their moments, but true self-love and growth come from sacrifices and learning to put others first. ” – Anonymous

237. “Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. ” – Bo Bennett

238. “Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much, there’s nothing else you can give, and nobody will care for you. ” – Karl Largerfield

239. “The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. ”

240. “Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth, and everything else will come. ” – Ellen DeGeneres

241. “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it.  If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.”

242. “Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire. ”

243. “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.”

244. “Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway.” - Earl Nightingale

245. “In stressful times. it’s okay to not be perfect. Cut yourself some slack. Because right now. you might not be your best self. but you are growing and you are trying your best. And that is good enough. ” — Ashley Hetherington

246. “Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. It is being ‘wholly’ and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come. ”

247. “Nothing can stop the person with the right mental attitude from achieving his goals. Nothing on earth can help the person with the wrong mental attitude.”

248. “I studied the lives of great men and women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.”

249. “I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient. ”

250. “Leaning back in my recliner each night, staring at the ceiling, I tried to settle myself. I told myself: Life is growth. You grow or you die. ”

251. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. ” — Jack Welch

252. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. ” –Jack Welch

253. “Once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself. To persevere and hang in there and believe in yourself. ”

254. “I hope that my daughter grows up empowered and doesn’t define herself by the way she looks but by qualities that make her an intelligent, strong and responsible woman. ” — Isaiah Mustafa

255. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. ” — Jack Welch, former CEO, General Electric

256. “Sometimes in life we take a leap of faith. Remember, the leap is not about getting from one side to the other. It’s simply about taking the leap and trusting the air, the universal breath, will support your wings so that you may sour. ”

257. ​“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. ”– Dr. Wayne W Dyer

258. “It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack. ”  – Germany Kent 

259. “No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself. ” –Madonna

260. “The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. ”

261. “A person must constantly work to develop their self to the fullest embodiment of a human being through their acts of love, compassion, and dutiful work. ” ― Kilroy J. Oldster

262. Stay focused on your dream, your endeavor, your goal & contentment for self. Don’t waste your time on anything that does not contribute to your growth

263. Ephesians 4:16 “From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. ”

264. “A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes to-day. ”

265. “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

266. “The only way to do something in depth is to work hard. The moment you start being in love with what you’re doing, and thinking it’s beautiful or rich, then you’re in danger. ” – Miuccia Prada

267. “Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis. ” – Zig Ziglar

268. “Everything moves, nothing rests. We live in an ocean of motion. Everything is the expression of the same thing: Energy, at a different rate of vibration. ”

269. “If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. ”

270. “The more you believed in yourself, the more you could trust yourself. The more you trust yourself, the less you compare yourself to others. ”

271. “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.” 

272. “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

273. “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

274. “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

275. “I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it.  Whether you’re a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it.  If you do, you’ll win — if you don’t you won’t.”

276. “Nothing can stop the person with the right mental attitude from achieving his goals. Nothing on earth can help the person with the wrong mental attitude. ”

277. “Love yourself a little extra right now. You're evolving, learning, healing, growing, and discovering yourself all at once. It's about to get magical for you. ”

278. “What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.” –Buddha

279. “If you are moving forward in your life, If you are progressing personally, professionally emotionally, spiritually – you will be happy.”

280. “Qualities die for want of attention, so any unlovely state might best be rubbed out by imagining “beauty for ashes and joy for mourning” rather than by direct attacks on the state from which we would be free. ” - Neville Goddard

281. “I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally, it occurred to me, I’m either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. ” – Queen Latifah

282.  “Pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence. ” - Frida Kahlo

283. “Many times in life, we are held back from achieving our goals because we do not commit ourselves wholeheartedly. With an escape route in mind, we hold ourselves back from giving our all. ”

284. “If you are moving forward in your life, If you are progressing personally, professionally, emotionally, spiritually – you will be happy. ” - Tony Robbins

285. “Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more?”

286. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. -Jack Welch

287. “Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands. Every time you meditate you will keep your growth. ” — Swami Vivekananda

288. “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

289. “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.” - Albert Einstein

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

291. “No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.”

292. “Self improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.” –Maxwell Maltz

293. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. ” - Jack Welch

294. “In order to be knowledgeable in these changing times, we must pursue a constant program of self-improvement, a never-ending journey into new fields of knowledge and learning. ”

295. “The key to ultimate happiness and fulfillment lies within our own transformation. The more we learn and grow and evolve as individuals, the more we will find happiness and satisfaction in relationships, work and life. ” ― Kristi Bowman

296. “You are too great an entity to keep yourself all to yourself: purposefulness in life comes through sharing what you have to offer with others. ” – Kain Ramsay

297. “The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday. You do that by focusing on what you can do today to improve and grow. ” – John Maxwell

298. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. ” — Bruce Lee

299. “Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better. ” -Sydney J. Harris

300. “Having healthy boundaries not only requires being able to say “no”, but also being willing and able to enforce that “no” when necessary. ” ― Jessica Moore

301. “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

302. “Before I ask you to sit with me, I must be able to sit with myself. Before I ask you to accept my pain, I have to accept the pain myself. Before I ask you to love me, I have to be madly in love with myself. ” — C. Thoth

303. “Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else’s footsteps. ”

304. “A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes to-day.”

305. “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. ” – Buddha

306. “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

307. “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.”  

308. “Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocaldecision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something. ”

309. “If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. ” — Brian Tracy

310. “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. ”

311. “Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top.”

312. “Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you. ” - Hillary Clinton

313. “True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise, all you’re having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn’t grow you as a person. ” — Aristotle

314. “At this very moment, you can choose to put yourself in either a growth mindset or a fixed mindset. One leads to a life of pain and stagnation. The other to endless growth and fulfillment. ” – Marie Forleo

315. “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

316. “If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?” –Miguel Ruiz

317. “The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ would take the slums out of people, and then they would take themselves out of the slums

318. “It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree — make sure you understand the fundamental principles, i. e. the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves or there is nothing for them to hang on to. ” - Elon Musk

319. “You cannot only call yourself a teen. You’re more than that. At 70, you are almost a grown-up! I love you so much. And I’m so proud of you. Happy 70th birthday!”

320. “Personal development – the never ending chance to improve not only yourself but also attract opportunities and affect others. ” ― Jim Rohn

321. “An open mind is the beginning of self-discovery and growth. We can’t learn anything new until we can admit that we don’t already know everything. ” —Erwin G. Hall”

322. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle. ” – Christian D. Larson

323. “The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colours which at every succeeding moment it presents to you, are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts. ” - James Allen

324. “The feeling of being ‘offended’ is a warning indicator that is showing you where to look within yourself for unresolved issues. ” — Bryant McGill

325.  “Be patient with yourself. You are growing stronger every day. The weight of the world will become lighter…and you will begin to shine brighter. Don’t give up. ” - Robert Tew

326. “With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself, or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. ” ~Wayne Dyer

327. “Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. It moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it. ”

328. “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

329. “Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. ” ― William Butler Yeats

330. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. —Jack Welch, American business executive, chemical engineer, and writer

331. “Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone. ”

332. “We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success; we often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never makes a mistake never made a discovery. ”

333. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. ” Jack Welch

334. “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

335. “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. ” – Lao Tzu

336. “Whenever I am in a difficult situation where there seems to be no way out, I think about all the times I have been in such situations and say to myself, "I did it before, so I can do it again.” 

337. “Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success. ”

338. “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you…never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. ” - Harriet Beecher Stowe

339. “Loving yourself has nothing to do with being selfish, self-centered or self-engrossed. It means that you accept yourself for what you are. Loving yourself means that you accept responsibility for your own development, growth and happiness. ”

340. “Creation is not unwilling to open to you the doors to the beyond. It is not creation’s unwillingness that you are struggling with. You are struggling with the walls of resistance that you have built around yourself.” - Sadhguru

341. “The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.”

342. Money is only an idea. If you want more money simply change your thinking. Every self-made person started small with an idea, then turned it into something big. It takes only a few dollars to start and grow into something big. ” – Robert Kiyosaki

343. “Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want a different result, make a different choice. ” – Anonymous

344. “I was once afraid of people saying, ‘Who does she think she is?’ Now I have the courage to stand and say, ‘This is who I am. ” – Oprah Winfrey

345. “Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands. Every time you meditate you will keep your growth.” — Swami Vivekananda

346. “Self improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent. ” –Maxwell Maltz

347. “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.”

348. “My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth. ”

349. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. ” – Jack Welch, CEO General Electric 1981-2001

350. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. – Jack Welch

351. “Many companies get trapped by the paradox of hitting numbers ‘now’ versus improving sales for future quarters or years ahead.” – Tiffani Bova, Salesforce Global Customer Growth and Innovation Evangelist

352. “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. ” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

353. “So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow. ”  – Rainbow Rowell

354. Happy birthday to the most amazing person on the Earth! I‘ve never thought I would grow so awesome. Hope it will never end. Congratulations to me! Heartfelt Happy Birthday Wishes to Myself

355. “Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole. ” – Seneca

356. “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. ”

357. “Success is not measured by what a man accomplished, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. ”

358. “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. ”

359. “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it. ” – Jordan Belfort

360. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ” ― William Faulkner – Self Improvement Quotes

361. “What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind. ” –Buddha

362. “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. ”

363. When you feel overwhelmed and defeated, remember that you are not alone. And the strength you need lies within you – simply tap into it. The efforts you make will grow your child’s self-confidence, independence and ability to thrive in the world

364. “Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self

365. “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. ”

366.  “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

367. It’s very important to take care of yourself. Everyone’s lives are so busy. Take at least an hour a day to recharge and do whatever makes you better. For grown

368. “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

369. “People on a spiritual path – personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth – are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day. ” – Marianne Williamson

370. “The top players in every field think differently when all the marbles are on the line. Great performers focus on what they are doing, and nothing else…They let it happen, let it go. They couldn’t care less about the results. ” – John Eliot

371. “The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential. ” ― Jim McDonald

372. “Self-care is the number one solution to helping somebody else. If you are being good to yourself and your body and your psyche, that serves other people better, because you will grow strong enough to lift someone else up. ” – Mary Lambert

373. “If You Are The Kind Of Person Who Is Waiting For The ‘Right’ Thing To Happen, You Might Wait For A Long Time. It’s Like Waiting For All The Traffic Lights To Be Green For Five Miles Before Starting The Trip. ” – Robert Kiyosaki

374. “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ”

375. “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

376. “Genuine love is self-replenishing. The more I nurture the spiritual growth of others, the more my own spiritual growth is nurtured. ” M. Scott Peck

377. “With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself, or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. ”

378. “No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.” –Madonna

379. “Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.”

380. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ” — Helen Keller

381. “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

382. “Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others. ”

383. “We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”

384. “Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be. ” – Heath L. Buckmaster

385. “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.”

386. “Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. ” ― B. R. Ambedkar

387. “If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you.  If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you.  Whatever good things we build end up building us.”

388. “While working on completing your goal, you may encounter possible setbacks. Instead of beating yourself up, look at them as opportunities to learn and grow. ” —Kyle Nussen

389. “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

390. “All successful men and women are big dreamers.  They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”

391. “Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. ” — Herbert Otto Gille

392. “What if the idea of Mr. Right is completely false? What if there is no Mr. Wrong? What if every relationship-no matter how brief-contains a priceless lesson allowing you to grow and evolve into your grandest self?”

393. “To Effectively Communicate, We Must Realize That We Are All Different In The Way We Perceive The World And Use This Understanding As A Guide To Our Communication With Others. ” – Tony Robbins

394. “The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”

395. “The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. ”

396. If you realize that you’re the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don’t blame other people for your problems. ”

397. “We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path. ”

398. “Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.” - Paulo Coelho

399. “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

400.  “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

401. Some days are going to be more of a struggle than others. That is okay and you need to forgive yourself in order to keep going. and growing. Sara Ahmed

402. “A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small. ”—Eva K. Logue

403. “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

404. “The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential. ” ― Jim McDonald

405. The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination… until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life. ” — Iyanla Vanzant

406. “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

407. “The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colours which at every succeeding moment it presents to you, are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts.” - James Allen

408. “If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It’s about them. ” - Jack Welch

409. Isn’t it awesome how I grow up rapidly? Thanks to the friends that turned families, and thanks to every family member who have always gone extra miles to support my dreams. I really do appreciate you all. Happy birthday to my humble self

410. This is not the moment to wilt into the underbrush of your insecurities. You’ve earned the right to grow. You’re going to have to carry the water yourself. —Cheryl Strayed

411. “The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. ” – Carol Dweck

412. When I am sharply judgmental of any other person, it's because I sense or see reflected in them some aspect of myself that I don't want to acknowledge. — Gabor Maté

413. “The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves. ” –Alan Watts

414. “The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong. ”

415. “I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process. ” ― Shelby Foote

416. “Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them. ”

417. “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

418. In stressful times, it's okay to not be perfect. Cut yourself some slack. Because right now, you might not be your best self, but you are growing and you are trying your best. And that is good enough. —Ashley Hetherington

419. “Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. It will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you. ”

420. “It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So, you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. ”

421. “If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?” –Miguel Ruiz

422. “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

423.  “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

424. “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. ” –Socrates

425. “The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfilment.” - Earl Nightingale

426. “Don’t allow yourself to be satisfied with your success. Critique what you’ve achieved and ask what you can learn from others. ” – Oscar Auliq-Ice

427. “Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure. ” - Paulo Coelho

428. “Sometimes in life we take a leap of faith. Remember, the leap is not about getting from one side to the other. It’s simply about taking the leap and trusting the air, the universal breath, will support your wings so that you may sour.” 

429. “If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us. ”

430. Be not afraid of discomfort. If you can’t put yourself in a situation where you are uncomfortable, then you will never grow. You will never change. You’ll never learn. ” Jason Reynolds

431.  “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experiences that reveals the human spirit. ” - e. e. cummings

432. “Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.” – William Durant, co-founder, General Motors

433. “Creation is not unwilling to open to you the doors to the beyond. It is not creation’s unwillingness that you are struggling with. You are struggling with the walls of resistance that you have built around yourself. ” - Sadhguru

434. “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

435. “I hear babies cry, I watch them grow, They'll learn much more, Than I'll ever know. And I think to myself, What a wonderful World” – Louis Armstrong “What a Wonderful World”

436. “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

437. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ”

438. “Be patient with yourself. You are growing stronger every day. The weight of the world will become lighter…and you will begin to shine brighter. Don’t give up. ” - Robert Tew

439. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. ” ~ Jack Welch

440. “The more you believed in yourself, the more you could trust yourself. The more you trust yourself, the less you compare yourself to others.”

441. “Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth. ” – Alexander Pope

442. “The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do. ”

443. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” 

444. “Never be afraid to tread the path alone.  Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else’s footsteps.”

445. “Professional growth is not just about climbing the corporate ladder, it’s about developing new skills and taking on new challenges. ” – Unknown

446. “You’ve got to have rules to live by, and one of mine is always say yes. Put yourself in danger of something amazing happening to you. ” — Tom Bilyeu

447. “I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man. ”

448. “Some days are going to be more of a struggle than others. That is okay and you need to forgive yourself in order to keep going — and growing. ”

449. You shall do well for yourself as you grow. May this new age bring you joy and laughter. Your heart shall always be filled with merriment and gratitude. Happy 6 months birthday

450. “All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection. ” – Alice Miller

451. “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. ”

452. “The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, “I was wrong. ” ― Sydney J. Harris

453. “Your soul needs time for solitude and self-reflection. In order to love, lead, heal, and create, you must nourish yourself first. ” – Louise Hay

454. “Be not afraid of discomfort. If you can’t put yourself in a situation where you are uncomfortable, then you will never grow. You will never change. You’ll never learn. ” Jason Reynolds

455. “Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. ” - M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

456. “Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?” –Shannon L. Alder

457. “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

458. “Create an ideal of the person you want to be and assume that you are already that person. If this assumption is persisted in until it becomes your dominant feeling, the attainment of your ideal is inevitable.” - Neville Goddard

459. “We find it normal for a child to be afraid of the dark, but we should never find it normal for an adult to be afraid of the light. ” – Robin Sharma

460. “The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life. ” ― Julie B. Beck

461. “Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?”– Eckhart Tolle

462. “It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. ”

463. “Don’t allow yourself to be satisfied with your success. Critique what you’ve achieved and ask what you can learn from others. ” – Oscar Auliq-Ice

464. “Stop blaming me and thinking I’m the problem. If you think I’m the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you’re the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something, and grow wiser. ”

465. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. ” —Jack Welch, American business executive, chemical engineer, and writer

466. “Do not be afraid to experience your emotions; they are the path to your soul. Emotions erupt to remind us we are alive, that we are human. And to let us know we are growing. Trust yourself enough to feel what you feel. ”

467. “Offer training sessions to your employees so that they can learn new skills. This can help you to keep your employees productive, to grow self belief in them. ” ― strayboots. com

468. “Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are acculated along the way. ” – Allan Rufus

469. “You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. ”- Jim Rohn

470. “Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat.  Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weakness … on your powers, instead of your problems.”

471. “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

472. “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

473. “Some days are going to be more of a struggle than others. That is okay and you need to forgive yourself in order to keep going—and growing. ” – Sara Ahmed

474. “Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole. ” – Seneca

475. “There is no sense in punishing your future for the mistakes of your past. Forgive yourself, grow from it, and then let it go. ” – Melanie Koulouris

476. “The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”

477. “With Integrity, You Have Nothing To Fear, Since You Have Nothing To Hide. With Integrity, You Will Do The Right Thing, So You Will Have No Guilt. ” – Zig Ziglar

478. “The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, “I was wrong. ” ― Sydney J. Harris

479.  “'First things first' might be a cliche, but it's a useful one that means prioritizing what matters most to you and believing there is no wrong answer. ” - Stacey Abrams

480. “Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.” — Chinese Proverb. “Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.” — Chinese ...

481. “The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential…these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. ” - Confucius

482. “Qualities die for want of attention, so any unlovely state might best be rubbed out by imagining “beauty for ashes and joy for mourning” rather than by direct attacks on the state from which we would be free.” - Neville Goddard

483. “If you are moving forward in your life, If you are progressing personally, professionally, emotionally, spiritually – you will be happy.” - Tony Robbins

484. “There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery. From struggle comes strength. ”

485. “My mother’s death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I’ve grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don’t exist materially. ” – Cheryl Strayed

486. “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 Frankl

487. “Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway. ” - Earl Nightingale

488. “But until a person can say deeply and honestly, “I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,” that person cannot say, “I choose otherwise. ” – Stephen R. Covey

489. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. — Jack Welch, American business executive

490. “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

491. “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

492. “If you realize that you’re the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don’t blame other people for your problems. ” – Robert Kiyosaki

493. “There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery. From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher. ”

494. “You cannot only call yourself a teen. You’re more than that. At 16, you are almost a grown-up! I love you so much. And I’m so proud of you. Happy 16th birthday!”

495. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. ” – Albert Schweitzer

496. “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

497. “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

498. “Sometimes in life we take a leap of faith. Remember, the leap is not about getting from one side to the other. It’s simply about taking the leap… and trusting the air, the universal breath, will support your wings so that you may sour. ”

499. “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

500. “To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny. ” – Alan Cohen

501. “We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before “arriving. ” – Napoleon Hill

502. “Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the ‘other self” is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror. ”― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

503. “When you find yourself cocooned in isolation and you cannot find your way out of darkness… Remember, this is similar to the place where caterpillars go to grow their wings. ” — Necole Stephens

504. “Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. It will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.” 

505. ‘Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Don’t teach a man to fish…and feed yourself. He’s a grown man. And fishing’s not that hard’ – Ron Swanson

506. “The way you speak to yourself has an enormous impact on your mood. Try, ‘I’m still learning’ instead of ‘I made a mistake again. ’ Speak kindly to yourself, always. ”

507. “Some days are going to be more of a struggle than others. That is okay and you need to forgive yourself in order to keep going—and growing. ” —Sara Ahmed, writer and content creator

508. “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

509. “Once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself. To persevere and hang in there and believe in yourself. ” — Steve Nash

510. “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

511. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

512. “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

513. “Just take any step, whether small or large. And then another and repeat day after day. It may take months, maybe years, but the path to success will become clear” -Aaron Ross

514. “Vulnerability is the gift I give to those I trust, when I trust myself. A leader’s authenticity is rooted and grows in a field of self-trust. ” Terry Kellogg and Marvel Harrison

515. One of the highest forms of self-awareness and growth a person can have is acknowledging that the view is always better from the high road

516. “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.”

517. “But until a person can say deeply and honestly, “I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,” that person cannot say, “I choose otherwise. ” – Stephen R. Covey

518. “Before you become a leader, success is all about growing yourself. After you become a leader, success is about growing others. ” — Jack Welch, former chairman and CEO of General Electric

519. “When you know yourself and your opponent, you will win every time. When you know yourself but not your opponent, you will win one and lose one. However, when you do not know yourself or your opponent, you will be imperiled every time.”

520. “It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. ”  – Donald Miller

521. “The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has. ”

522. “Once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself. To persevere and hang in there and believe in yourself. ” – Steve Nash

523.  “Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you. ” - Hillary Clinton

524. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. ” – Jack Welch, former GE chairman and CEO

525. “Your soul is attracted to people the same way flowers are attracted to the sun. Surround yourself only with those who want to see you grow. ” – Pavana

526. “You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination. ” -Ralph Marston

527. “Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space.” – Chris Hadfield, astronaut

528. “There are no mistakes in life, Only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow learn, and advance along the way to self-mastery”

529. “Retired General Electric CEO Jack Welch said, “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. ”

530. “When we’re growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be. ” - Elliot Page

531. “Many times in life, we are held back from achieving our goals because we do not commit ourselves wholeheartedly. With an escape route in mind, we hold ourselves back from giving our all.” 

532. “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.”

533. “All successful men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. ”

534. “You know you can always help to make each day a special day by just your being yourself. You grow in your own way; everyone does. That’s one reason each one of us is different and special and people can like us exactly as we are. ”

535. “It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. ” – Donald Miller

536. “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 personal growth and development. ”

537. “It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack. ” – Germany Kent

538. “There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opprtunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery. From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher. ”

539.  “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

540. “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.” – Andy Rooney, journalist

541. “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

542. “Your soul is attracted to people the same way flowers are attracted to the sun, surround yourself only with those who want to see you grow. ” – Pavana

543. We all make mistakes at work. Be accountable for yourself and own up to your mistakes. This may not be the easiest thing for you to do, but it is important in maintaining work relationships and promoting growth

544. “When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.” –Confucius

545. “The greatest innovators and history makers of our world were not great because of the formal school system but because of self-development through the proper investment and conversation of time. ” – Sunday Adelaja (Personal Growth Quotes)

546. “If your startup builds a room full of pessimists and you have one optimist at the table, then I think you’re in the wrong business. But the other way around is invaluable and necessary” -David Cohen

547. “When you continuously compete with others you become bitter, but when you continuously compete with yourself you become better. ” ― Marie Blanchard

548. “The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.”

549. “No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself. ”

550. “Surround yourself with people that are smarter than you, give them everything they need to grow, and your business will thrive. ” – Richard Branson

551. The first time I was given money to shop for myself, I was 13 and staying with my godmother in New York. I went to Clinique and bought the three-step acne programme and felt so grown-up. - Author: Trinny Woodall

552. “Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about. ”

553. “People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them. ”

554. “Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself. ” - Edmund Lee

555. “[Don’t] let anyone convince you that your dream, your vision to be an entrepreneur, is something that you shouldn’t do. What often happens is that people who are well meaning, who really care for us, are afraid for us and talk us out of it. ”

556. “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

557. “Whenever I am in a difficult situation where there seems to be no way out, I think about all the times I have been in such situations and say to myself, "I did it before, so I can do it again. ”

558. “We all have something that we are meant to do. Your genius will shine through, and happiness will fill your life, the instant you discover your higher purpose you will then direct all your energies towards it. ” – Robin Sharma

559. “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.”

560. “Your personal development goals can lead you forward to a more rewarding life despite challenges, pitfalls or trials. You do have a choice and you do have the option. ” — Byron Pulsifer

561. “Your soul is attracted to people the same way flowers are attracted to the sun, surround yourself only with those who want to see you grow. ” – Unknown

562. “Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and good things will be yours.”

563. “What’s important isn’t whether or not I win but rather my own personal growth as an athlete and person because of running this race for myself” -Colin Kaepernick

564. “When you know yourself and your opponent, you will win every time. When you know yourself but not your opponent, you will win one and lose one. However, when you do not know yourself or your opponent, you will be imperiled every time. ”

565. “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. ”

566. “You do not fail in life, you only produce results, and you have the right to learn and grow from any results that you produce.” –Wayne Dyer

567. “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. ”

568. “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you. ”

569.  “When we’re growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be. ” - Elliot Page

570. “Practice all movements slow and fast, soft and hard; the effectiveness of Jeet Kune-Do depends on split-second timing and reflexive action, which can be achieved only through repetitious practice.”

571. “The purpose of dharma is to help your mind to expand, to grow, to clarify. It should uphold us and create an inner sense of peace, joy, and clarity.” — Tenzin Palmo

572. “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. ” – OgMandino

573. Character, heart, the mind of a champion. It’s what makes great athletes and it’s what comes from the growth mindset with its focus on self-development, self-motivation, and responsibility. – Carol Dweck

574. “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

575. “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you…never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. ” – Harriet Beecher Stowe

576. “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 Frankl

577. “We all have something that we are meant to do. Your genius will shine through, and happiness will fill your life, the instant you discover your higher purpose you will then direct all your energies towards it. ” – Robin Sharma

578. “If you realize that you’re the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don’t blame other people for your problems. ”

579. “The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfilment. ” - Earl Nightingale

580. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. ” —Jack Welch

581. “Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. ” ― B. R. Ambedkar

582. “If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more. ” — Brian Koslow

583. “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

584. “The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.”

585. “The feeling of being ‘offended’ is a warning indicator that is showing you where to look within yourself for unresolved issues. ” – Bryant McGill

586. “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. ”

587. “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.  Imagination is more important than knowledge.  Knowledge is limited.  Imagination encircles the world.”

588. “Be patient with yourself. You are growing stronger every day. The weight of the world will become lighter… and you will begin to shine brighter. Don’t give up. ”

589. “Practice all movements slow and fast, soft and hard; the effectiveness of Jeet Kune-Do depends on split-second timing and reflexive action, which can be achieved only through repetitious practice. ”

590. “We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. ” –Maxwell Maltz

591. “When you find yourself cocooned in isolation and you cannot find your way out of darkness… Remember, this is similar to the place where caterpillars go to grow their wings. ” – Necole Stephens

592. “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

593. “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

594. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. ” - Henry Ford

595. When we were growing up, you were the best type of example for me. You were honest, kind, and true to yourself. I couldn’t have asked for a better role model in my life, and I hope your birthday is as phenomenal as you are

596. “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

597. “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

598. “Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.”

599. “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

600. “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experiences that reveals the human spirit. ” - e. e. cummings