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850 Inspirational Quotes For Self Growth (2023)

1. “The man who moved a mountain was the one who began carrying away small stones.”


2. “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” – Ernest Hemingway


3. “Don’t go through life, grow through life.”


4. “I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be. ” — Albert Einstein


5. “Every problem is a gift — without problems we would not grow.” – Anthony Robbins, motivational speaker and writer


6. “Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ” – Abraham Joshua Heschel


7. “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.”


8. “The most valuable asset you can have is your own mindset. ” – Unknown


9. “Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. ” –Anne Lamott


10. “We see the world, not as it is, but as we are.”


11. “Your brain will trick you into just staying alive; you are more than just a bag of bones. ”


12.  “Set a goal so big that you can’t achieve it until you grow into the person who can. ” – Zig Ziglar


13. “We are affected by what we know so get the information. Don’t be lazy in learning. ”


14. “Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”


15. “Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity. ” –Marie Curie


16. “Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.” – Anthony J D Angelo


17. “Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ” – Abraham Joshua Heschel


18. “Happy employees lead to happy customers, which leads to more profits.” – Vaughn Aust, EVP of Integrated Solutions, MarketStar


19. “Self-care starts with your emotions. Love yourself, accept yourself, and believe in yourself. ”


20. “In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first. ” -Jimi Hendrix


21. “If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.”


22. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. ” ― Albert Einstein


23. “We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are. ” ― Oprah Winfrey


24. “We are dependent entirely on obedience to the laws of nature for our success or failure in this life.” - Raymond Holliwell


25. “Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.”


26. “Develop success from failures.  Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”


27. “Be the change you want to see in this world. ” – Gandhi · 2. “In our struggle for 


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


29. “Personal development is a major time-saver. The better you become, the less time it takes you to achieve your goals. ” –Brian Tracy


30. “The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.” - Confucius


31. “Insist on yourself. Never imitate.”


32. “What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.” –Thomas Sprat


33. “You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow. ”– Idowu Koyenikan


34. “As you grow older you discover that you have two hands. one for helping yourself. the other for helping others. ” ― Audrey Hepburn


35. “Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness. ” – Jean Vanier


36. “Never expect a thing you do not want, and never desire a thing you do not expect.”


37.  “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. ” - Les Brown


38. “You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge. ” – Dr. Phil McGraw


39. “What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do. ” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson


40. “The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”


41. “Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time. ” – Brian Tracy


42. “To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.”


43. “I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We’re made to grow. You either evolve or you disappear. ” ― Tupac Shakur


44.  “With self-discipline most anything is possible. ” - Theodore Roosevelt


45. “Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind.” — Bruce H. Lipton


46. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. ” Maya Angelou


47. “Thoughts frame your portrait, action paints it. ” ― Charles F. Glassman


48. “It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.”


49. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. ” — Audrey Hepburn


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


51. “The path to success is to take massive determined action.”


52. “Invest in yourself, your growth, and your opportunities. You’re worth every ounce of your dedication. ”


53. “Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life. ” ― Deborah Day


54. “Life is a concept, like the universe, that expands as soon as we reach what we think is its edge.” — Kamand Kojouri


55. “Enthusiam is the steam that drives the engine.”


56. “He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.”


57. “Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”


58. There is no greater journey than the one that you must take to discover all of the mysteries that lie within you. ” — Michelle Sandlin


59. “What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters to what lies within us.”


60. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ” – Winston Churchill


61. “There are no secrets to success.  It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”


62. “Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.”


63. “Be better than every previous version of yourself. ”


64. “It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.”


65. “When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.”


66. “To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”


67. “Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are. ” – Bernice Johnson Reagon


68.  “I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all the time, somehow things will work out in the end. ” - Larry Bird


69. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. ” – Winston Churchill


70. “Setting Goals Is The First Step In Turning The Invisible Into The Visible. ” – Tony Robbins


71. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” –Thomas Edison


72. “Learn to work harder on yourself than on your job.”


73. “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. ” – Winston Churchill


74. “It’s your life; you don’t need someone’s permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart. ” ― Roy T. Bennett


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


76. “We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.” - Buckminster Fuller


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


78. “Visionary decision-making happens at the intersection of intuition and logic. ” ― Paul O’Brien


79. “Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.”


80. “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”


81. “It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not. ” ― Denis Waitley


82. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. ” – Albert Einstein


83. “To move the world we must first move ourselves.”


84. “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”


85.  “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ” - Edith Wharton


86. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. You are worthy of all that you dream of and 


87. “Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.” — George Bernard Shaw


88. “The only journey is the journey within.” — Rainer Maria Rilke


89. “Do, or do not. There is no try.”


90. “Sometimes we cross paths with people so they can teach us how to let go. ”


91. “Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.”


92. “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.”


93. “Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it. ”


94. “Personal growth and development are your most important investment. ”


95. “Personal development is a major time-saver. The better you become, the less time it takes you to achieve your goals.” –Brian Tracy


96. “Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. ”


97. “Finding is reserved for the searchers, we don’t find what we need, we find what we search for. ”


98. “The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.” — Deepak Chopra


99. “Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.” – William George Jordan, writer/editor


100. “Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.” 


101. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. ” – Jim Rohn


102. “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”–Rob Siltanen


103. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle


104. “I don’t count the days, I make the days count!”


105. “To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”


106. “Real difficulties can be overcome; It is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.”


107. “If a tree’s strength is judged while it is still a seed, it is mistaken as weak.” 


108. “When we are stuck in a rut we are being invited to grow and expand.” — Dana Arcuri


109. “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. ” - Buddha


110. “Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.”


111. “The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change. ” —Bill Clinton


112. “Our essential nature is one of pure potentiality. ”


113. “Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.” –Anne Lamott


114. “We all have internal struggles and personal challenges. Do not let anyone make you feel bad about yours. ”― Izey Victoria Odiase


115. “Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.”


116. “What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?”


117. “Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself. ” ― Denis Waitley


118. “Life wants you to be complete unto yourself, generally enjoy and expand consciousness, open, explore, love.” — Jay Woodman


119. “Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about.”


120.  “You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. ” - Shonda Rhimes


121. “You cannot change what you are, only what you do. ” – Philip Pullman


122. “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. ” -Winston Churchill


123. “Where there is love there is life.”


124. “Your attitude toward others will always be reflected in their attitude toward you.”


125. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” — Will Durant


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


127. “I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.”


128. “There is nothing permanent except change. ” -Heraclitus


129. “She remembered who she was


130. “The only journey is the journey within.”


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


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


133. “Stay focused on self-direction and personal growth and away from finger-pointing. ” — Nina Atwood


134. “There is only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.”


135. “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”


136. “Your entire universe is in your mind and nowhere else. To expand the universe, expand your mind.” — Deepak Chopra


137. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ” — Will Durant


138. “Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.” –Wayne Dyer


139.  “Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ” - Chinese Proverb


140. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”


141. “Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.”


142. “The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development.” 


143. “Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.


144. “In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first. ” – Jimi Hendrix


145. “A candle never loses any of its light while lighting up another Candle.” - Rumi


146. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves. ” ― Swami Vivekananda – Self Improvement Quotes


147. “Tell yourself: 'I know you're trying to grow. and working hard. instead of telling yourself. you piece of shit. you aren't perfect. ”


148. “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”


149. “I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me. ”


150. “Follow your bliss!” – Joseph Campbell


151. ” ― Confucius – Self Improvement Quotes


152. “Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. ” – Barbara De Angelis


153. “I am a strong and powerful woman.


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


155. “Professional growth is a journey, not a destination. ” – Unknown


156. “Invest your time, energy, and thoughts wisely by focusing on your expansion. ”


157. “The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development.”


158. “The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.”


159. “If you don’t take care of your body, Where then will you live?” - Jim Rohn


160. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu


161. “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”


162. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.”


163. “When life is at its most chaotic, look for opportunities for growth. ”


164.  “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. ” - Thomas Jefferson


165. “If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. ” — Lord Chesterfield


166. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ” — E. E. cummings


167. “One must have strategies to execute dreams.”


168. “Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy.  You might know how to read, but more importantly, what’s your plan to read?”


169. “We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.”


170. “Your professional growth is directly proportional to the level of responsibility you’re willing to take on. ” – Unknown


171. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands– one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. ” — Audrey Hepburn


172. “Play to your strengths. If you aren’t great at something, do more of what you’re great at. ” -Jason Lemkin


173.  “You become mature when you become the authority of your own life. ” —Joseph Campbell


174. “The only person you should try to be better than, is the person you were yesterday. ” – Anonymous


175. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi


176. “The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”


177. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. ” – Steve Jobs


178. “Success is not about being the best. It is about always getting better. ” – Tony Robbins


179. “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” - Albert Einstein


180. “We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.” - Earl Nightingale


181. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”


182. “Be the change you want to see in the world.” –Gandhi


183. “The history of the world is the history of a few people who had faith in themselves.”


184. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. ” – Lao Tzu


185. “The best revenge is massive success. ” – Frank Sinatra


186. “Learn to work harder on yourself than on your job.” - Jim Rohn


187. “ Stay afraid, but do it anyway


188. “The best investment you can make is in yourself.” –Warren Buffet


189. “Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.” 


190. “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.” - Earl Nightingale


191. “For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, so that you won’t grow weary and lose heart. ” – Hebrews 12:3


192. “The key to success is not just hard work, but also working smart. ” – Unknown


193. “Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. ” -Dr. Suess


194. “Be humble always and identify with the common man; even when success and achievements want to make you proud.”


195. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. ” – Albert Einstein


196. “Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. ” ―Morihei Ueshiba


197. “If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. ” -Maya Angelou


198. “There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth — not going all the way, and not starting.”


199. “Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” –Louise Hay


200. ” ― George Bernard Shaw – Self Improvement Quotes


201. “Absorb What Is Useful, Discard What Is Not, Add What Is Uniquely Your Own. ” – Bruce Lee


202. “Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation.” – Clayton Christensen, economist and Harvard professor


203. “There are two primary choices in life:  to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”


204. “If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.”


205. “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”


206. “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desire to reach their potential. ”


207. “Your life is your message to the world. Make sure it’s inspiring. ” – Unknown


208.  “The power of imagination makes us infinite. ” - John Muir


209. “Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.”


210. “The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end. ” – Jiddu Krishnamurti


211. “Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.” –Marie Curie


212. “Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own. ” — Bruce Lee


213. “Keep working on those things that no one can take away from you: your character, your personality, your kindness. That’s all you. “


214. “I praise loudly; I blame softly.”


215. “ What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. ” - Jane Goodall


216. “Income seldom exceeds personal development. ” Jim Rohn · 10. “The only person you should try 


217. “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”


218. “There can only be two choices, either go right or go left, but never stand still. ”


219. “There’s no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.” — Charles M. Schwab


220. “If you are going through hell, keep going.”


221. “It is in the deconstruction of ourselves that we begin to build our lives. ” – Delora Argiro OBrien


222. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra


223. “A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.” 


224. “Every stitch you knit can be a self-care practice. Knitting is our constant companion as we grow and expand our capacity for joy. ”


225. “Do not fear to be your true self, for everything you want, wants you.” - Genevieve Behrend


226. “We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do. ” — Martha Grimes


227. “Personal development is a major time-saver. The better you become, the less time it takes you to achieve your goals. ” ― Brian Tracy


228. “In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength, but through persistence.”


229. “If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.”


230. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. ” ― Frederick Douglass


231. “Be relentless in your pursuit for expansion.” — Robert Greene


232. “Just don’t give up what you’re trying to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” 


233. “Perfection does not exist – you can always do better and you can always grow. ”


234. “Our greatest journey in life is our journey within.”


235. “The biggest temptation is to settle for too little.”


236. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. – Sam Levenson


237. “Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts.  This is the secret of success.”


238. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. ” —Maya Angelou


239. “Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.” — Bruce Lee


240. “Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ” ― Abraham Joshua Heschel


241. ” ― Madonna – Self Improvement Quotes


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


243. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. — Maya Angelou


244. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson


245. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. ” – Maya Angelou


246. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. ” – Paulo Coelho


247. “Life is like a sandwich!


248. “When doubts creep into your mind, you must be ready to push them away through action. ”


249. “In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.”


250. “You cannot fix what you will not face. ”


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


252. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude” -Oprah Winfrey


253. “Spread JOY everywhere you travel. Embrace what feels good, and let go of what doesn’t.”


254. “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”


255. “Success is not just about what you achieve, it’s also about who you become in the process. ” – Unknown


256. “If you are going to succeed, you must deal with what caused you to fail. ”


257. “Those at the top of the mountain didn’t fall there.”


258. “That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”


259. “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. ” – William James


260. “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. ” ― Ernest Hemingway


261. “As soon as you get comfortable with where you are, you’ll start to feel the need to grow again. ”


262. “If you’re not growing, you’re dying. ” – Tony Robbins


263. “How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.”


264. “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody. ” - Stephen Chobsky


265. “We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”


266. “The Best Investment You Can Make Is In Yourself. ” – Warren Buffet


267. “If your eyes are opened, you’ll see the things worth seeing.” — Rumi


268. “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”


269. “Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work.”


270. “Stop comparing your life to everyone else. Focus on yourself and your goals. ”


271. “What you focus on expands. So focus on what you want, not what you do not want.” — Esther Jno-Charles


272.  “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. ” - Ralph Waldo Emerson


273. “The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development. ” – Jim Rohn


274. “Commitment to love, to personal growth and development, to authentic power is an everyday application of your will. ” – Gary Zukav


275. “Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.”


276. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." – John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States of America


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


278. “The most successful people are those who are not afraid to ask for help. ” – Unknown


279. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”


280. “Leap and the net will appear.”


281. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. ” – Zig Ziglar


282. “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” - Pablo Picasso


283. “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” 


284. “Never let your work drive you.  Master it and keep it in complete control.”


285. “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”


286. “The ability to find solutions to life’s challenges is what makes us grow as a person. ” – Mark Twain


287. “If you want to be successful in your career, you have to be willing to put in the time and effort to grow and develop. ” – Brian Tracy


288. “Let this be the criteria by which you measure all things: Is this an act of love?”


289. Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. - Abraham Joshua Heschel


290. “Surround yourself with the kinds of input that are uplifting, that expand your mind and settle your spirit.” — Thomas Kinkade


291. “Self-growth is a journey, not a destination. ” – Unknown


292. “Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.”


293. “Your professional growth is only limited by your willingness to learn and grow. ” – Unknown


294. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today. ” – Will Rogers


295. “Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned. ” ― Oscar Auliq Ice


296. “Don’t let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead, give to yourself that which empowers you. ” – Les Brown


297.  “It is never too late to be who you might have been. ” - George Eliot


298. “Success often comes to those who dare to act.  It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.”


299. “Every moment of one’s existence, one is growing into more or retreating into less. ” – Norman Mailer


300. 1 What can you do with these quotes?


301. “You don’t have time to focus on anything but what is ahead of you. ”


302.  “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. ” —Frederick Douglass


303. “Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.”


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


305. “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”


306. “Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection. ” – Mark Twain


307. “Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”


308. “When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. ”


309. “If we’re really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression. ” — Oprah Winfrey


310. “Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.”


311. “To double your income and success, triple your investment in personal development and professional mastery. ” – Robin Sharma


312. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”


313. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. ” ~ Maya Angelou


314.  “Permit yourself to change your mind when something is no longer working for you. ” - Nedra Glover Tawwab


315. “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. ” – Epictetus


316. “See yourself living in abundance and you will attract it. It always works, it works every time with every person. ” – Bob Proctor


317. “To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.”


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


319. “If you aren’t making any mistakes, it’s a sure sign you’re playing it too safe.”


320. “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.” – Sigmund Freud, neurologist


321. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. ” — Aristotle


322. “When someone tells me “no,” it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them. ” – Karen E. Quinones Miller


323. “What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.”


324. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”


325. “We are either moving forward or moving backward. There is no such thing as standing still. ”― Becky Williamson-Martin


326. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it” –Confucius


327. “Those who seek a better life must first become a better person. ”


328. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”


329. “Expand and extend yourself to effectively fulfill purpose” — Sunday Adelaja


330. “The best way to predict your future is to create it. ” – Abraham Lincoln


331. “Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit. ”


332. “Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.” - Les Brown


333. “If you add the value, you will become the brand. Find a way to add more value than anyone else does. ”


334.  “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. ” - Amelia Earhart


335. “To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one’s own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.”


336. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing … that’s why we recommend it daily.”


337. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. ” – Dr. Seuss


338.  “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ” - Warren Buffett


339. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”


340. Change before you have to. -Jack Welch


341. “Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass.”


342. “I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life. ”


343. “Personal development is a major time-saver. The better you become, the less time it takes you to achieve your goals. ” – Brian Tracy


344. “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. ” – Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning


345. “Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.”


346. “Thoughts and ideas are the source of all wealth, success, material gain, all great discoveries, inventions and achievements.”


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


348. “People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.”


349. “If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.”


350. “It is the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. ”


351. “If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.” 


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


353. “I’ve always tried to go one step past wherever people expected me to end up.”


354. “Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the past and present are certain to miss the future” -John F. Kennedy


355. “It's very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you're not perfect.” 


356. ” ― Anthony J. D’Angelo – Self Improvement Quotes


357. “Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. ” – Brian Tracy


358. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. ” -Nelson Mandela


359.  “The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development. ” - Robin Sharma


360.  “Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life. ” - Deborah Day


361.  “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. ” - Ernest Hemingway


362. “Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. ” – Eckhart Tolle, The Power Of Now


363. “You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” –James Allen


364. “Be patient with yourself and your growth. ”


365. “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. ” – Les Brown


366. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” 


367. “Invest in yourself. You can afford it. Trust me. ” – Oprah Winfrey


368. “You Are Never Too Old To Set Another Goal Or To Dream A New Dream. ” – Les Brown


369. “I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. ”


370.  “Don’t go through life, grow through life. ” - Eric Butterworth


371. “May you live all the days of your life.”


372. You fail, learn and thereby grow


373. “Make a pledge to yourself right now, to declare that you are worth your time and energy. ” ― Deborah Day


374. “Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse-sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.”


375. “Do what you can with what you have. Never stop trying. ”


376. “Self-improvement is the basis for community development. ” – Unknown


377. “I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.” –Wayne Dyer


378.  “It’s your life; you don’t need someone’s permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart. ” —Roy T. Bennett


379. “Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. Think positive. ” – Unknown


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


381. “We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day. ”


382. “What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” — Napoleon Hill


383. “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. ” – Ernest Hemingway


384. “If you know what you want to achieve in life, then you are more inspired to change for the better. ” - Philip Vang


385. “Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness. ” – Deborah Day


386. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. —Audrey Hepburn


387. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ” – Eleanor Roosevelt


388. “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. ” ― Ernest Hemingway


389.  “We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it. ” - Rick Warren


390. “Don’t go through life, grow through life. ” ― Eric Butterworth


391. “No man is ever whipped until he quits — in his own mind.”


392. “Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.”


393. “Know who you are, and be it. Know what you want, and go out and get it!” – Carroll Bryant


394. “Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.” –Marcus Aurelius


395. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.”


396. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. ” – Albert Einstein


397. “Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.” — Buddha


398. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. ” – Maya Angelou


399. “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. ”


400. “Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.”


401. “Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.” 


402. “The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”


403.  “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment. ” - Stephen Covey


404. “Remember why you began in the first place, what your vision is, and keep going. ”


405. “After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.”


406. “Change equals self-improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before. ” ―Pat Summitt


407. “When you lose sight of your values, you lose sight of you. ”


408. “The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first." – Sergey Brin, co-founder, Google


409. “You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. ” – Jim Rohn


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


411. In your journey to happiness, you must build a strong foundation. You can only grow when you trust yourself and believe in yourself


412. “Your professional growth is limited only by the size of your vision. ” – Unknown


413. “A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.”


414. “Screw it, let’s do it – Just get on with it and do it. ”


415. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.”


416. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. ” – Mahatma Gandhi


417. “If pain doesn't lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.” 


418. “Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life. ” – Deborah Day


419.  “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. ” - Albert Einstein


420. “A mind that is stretched by experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes


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


422. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ” -Leo Tolstoy


423. “I will speak ill of no one and speak all the good I know of everybody.”


424. “Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.”


425. “The time you spend learning and growing is never wasted. ”


426. “Setting goals is essential when it comes to personal development. ” — Thibaut Meurisse


427. “What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others. ”


428. “To the degree you give others what they need, they will give you what you need.” - Og Mandino


429. “Self-improvement is the foundation of a better future for yourself and those around you. ” – Unknown


430. “I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We’re made to grow. ”  – Tupac Shakur


431. “The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”


432. “The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.”


433. “The difference between success and mediocrity is all in the way you think.”


434. “Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.”


435. “The seat of freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work, does what he wants to do.”


436. “If you want to become successful, seek to become a person of value. ”


437.  “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. ” —Albert Einstein


438. “What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”


439. “Success equals goals … all else is commentary.”


440. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. ” – C. S. Lewis


441. “To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.”


442.  “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. ” - Rob Siltanen


443. “Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits. ” – Alan Cohen


444. “Keep working on those things that no one can take away from you: your character, your personality, your kindness.  That’s all you. “


445. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”


446.  “The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down. ” —Stephen Richards


447. “If you learn only methods, you’ll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.”


448. “Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.”


449.  “Don’t go through life, grow through life. ” —Eric Butterworth


450. “You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow.” 


451. “Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.”


452. “There’s only one investment that will never go down — an investment in yourself. ” ― Frank Sonnenberg


453. “Self-growth is a continuous process, there is no limit to how much you can improve yourself. ” – Unknown


454. “Start wide, expand further, and never look back.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger


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


456. “Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”


457. “Things don’t have to change the world to be important” -Steve Jobs


458. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new” -Socrates


459. “All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”


460. “Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.”


461. “The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”


462. “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle." – Napoleon Hill, author


463. “Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are. ” - Bernice Johnson Reagon


464. “A man’s dreams are an index to his greatness.”


465. “We must become the change we want to see.” –Mahatma Gandhi


466. “Decisions decide destiny, there is no action without decision. ”


467. “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. ” – Andrew Carnegie


468. “See it better than it is or you have no future, without vision there is no possibility of improvement. ”


469. “The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement. ” – Helmut Schmidt


470. “Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom. ”


471. “All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.”


472. “Your mindset is the key to unlocking your full potential and achieving professional growth. ” – Unknown


473. “If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission. ” – Unknown


474. “The only way to do your best work is to constantly challenge yourself. ” – Unknown


475. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. ”


476. “Professional growth is not just about acquiring new skills, but also about changing your mindset. ” – Unknown


477. “Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.


478. “I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life – it’s possible. ”


479. “Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. ” – Jim Rohn


480. “Do, Or Do Not. There Is No Try. ” – Yoda


481. “Life finds its purpose and fulfilment in the expansion of happiness.” — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi


482. “The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. ” – Harvey S. Firestone


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


484. “Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.”


485. “How wonderful is it that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ” - Anne Frank


486. “The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.”


487. “Never walk away from failure.  On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.”


488. “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.” –Ivan Turgenev


489. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ” – C. S. Lewis


490. “A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul. ”  – Jillian Michaels 


491. “Make a success of living by seeing the goal and aiming for it unswervingly.”


492.  “By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better. ” - Laverne Cox


493. “There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!” – Edgar Cayce


494. “See things the way they are not worse than they are. ”


495. “Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.”


496.  “Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they are supposed to help you discover who you are. ”—Bernice Johnson Reagon


497. “The biggest obstacle to professional growth is the belief that you have arrived. ” – Unknown


498. “Sometimes our best is simply not enough.  We have to do what is required.”


499. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”


500. “If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.”


501. “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. ” - Ernest Hemingway


502. “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”


503. “Being a leader is living life on your terms not getting followers. ”


504. “A good criterion for measuring success in life is the number of people you have made happy.”


505. “Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.” - James Allen


506. “I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.” - Vincent Van Gogh


507. “Personal Development Is A Major Time-Saver. The Better You Become, The Less Time It Takes You To Achieve Your Goals. ” – Brian Tracy


508. “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. ” ― Jane Goodall


509. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. ” -Helen Keller


510. “It's very easy to be different but very difficult to be better.” – Jonathan Ive, Chief Design Officer, Apple


511. “Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.”


512. “The fast track to finding your power is allowing yourself to grow. ”


513. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ” – Nelson Mandela


514. “We can’t become what we want to be by remaining what we are. ” – Max DePree


515. “If you want to be successful, surround yourself with people who are more successful than you. ” – Unknown


516. “An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.” 


517. “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”


518. “The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”


519. “A master lives in the world of transformation, not the world of loss and gain.”


520. “They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.” – Confucius


521. “If you want to be successful, you must be willing to be uncomfortable. ” – Unknown


522. “Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.” –Tom Hopkins


523. “It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”


524. 1 People often ask, “What are some real life examples of fixed mindset vs growth mindset?”


525. “What we think, we become.” – Buddha


526. “Life looks for people who really want a change in their lives and makes way for those who put forth the effort. ”


527. “Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”


528. “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. ” – Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning


529. “The first step towards professional growth is self-awareness. ” – Unknown


530. “Every day is the new beginning, every day is the new opportunity to grow yourself. Starts your day with new energy, and positivity. ”


531. “Continuous learning is the key to staying relevant in a constantly changing world. ” – Unknown


532. “You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.”


533. “You already know what you don’t want, so try focusing on the things that you do. ”


534. “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.”


535. “God has entrusted me with myself. ”


536. “I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.”


537. “What's dangerous is not to evolve. ”-Jeff Bezos


538. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ” – Ralph Waldo Emerson


539. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”


540. “Live out your imagination, not your history.”


541. “Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions. ” – Dalai Lama


542. “Any idea, plan or purpose can be put into my mind through repetition in thought.” –Napoleon Hill


543. ” ― Jim Rohn – Self Improvement Quotes


544. “Leap off the fence of indecision. Get out of the ‘Want to Lane’ and put yourself into the ‘Got to Lane. ’” — Gloria Mayfield Banks


545. “See yourself living in abundance and you will attract it. It always works, it works every time with every person. ” – Bob Proctor


546. “Success is a journey, not a destination.”


547. “Professional growth is about taking ownership of your career and actively seeking opportunities to learn and improve. ” – Unknown


548. “The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end.”


549. “If flowers can grow through concrete, you can keep blooming, too. ”


550. “Personal and professional growth go hand in hand. You can’t have one without the other. ” – Unknown


551. “Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision. ”


552. “It’s really not your business what others are doing. What matters is what you’re doing. ”― Clyde Lee Dennis


553. “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.”


554. “Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become. ” – Eli Cohen


555. “Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself. ” – Roy T. Bennett


556. “Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but unlearning old limits. ” – Alan Cohen


557. “The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self.”


558. “Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside.” 


559. “The type of person you are is usually reflected in your business. To improve your business, first improve yourself.” 


560. “Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better.”


561. “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. ” — Aldous Huxley


562. “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”


563. “For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be.  What is once well done, is well done forever.”


564. “Don’t dream it. Be it!”


565. “Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.”


566. “The secret of success is consistency of purpose.”


567. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. ” — Maya Angelou


568. “Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong.”


569. “Forget yourself and start to work.”


570. “It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first. ”


571. “The key to success is to never stop learning. ” – Unknown


572.  “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. ” —Paulo Coelho


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


574. “Miracles happen every day, change your perception of what a miracle is and you’ll see them all around you. ” -Jon Bon Jovi


575. “Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone’s notable achievements.”


576. “Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.”


577. “If pain doesn’t lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering. ” – Katerina Stoykova Klemer


578. “Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant. ” — Stephen Covey


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


580. “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself that you can’t achieve it. ” – Jordan Belfort


581. ” ― Mahatma Gandhi – Self Improvement Quotes


582. “Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty  in every opportunity.”


583. “Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.”


584. “Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.”


585. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”


586. “If you can imagine it, you can create it.  If you can dream it, you can become it.”


587. “Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. ” – Eckhart Tolle, The Power Of Now


588. “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.”


589. “Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong. ” – Mandy Hale


590. “What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.”


591. “The greatest investment you’ll ever make is investing in you. ”― Wesam Fawzi


592. “Improvement starts within you and is dependent on your own efforts. So, make the effort.” –Remez Sasson


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


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


595.  “Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are. ” - Bernice Johnson Reagon


596. “The highest reward for one’s toil is not what one gets for it, but what one becomes by it.”


597. “Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana.”


598. ” ― Sanhita Baruah – Self Improvement Quotes


599.  “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. ” - Frederick Douglass


600. “The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.”


601. “In order to have influence, you have to be influenced. ”


602. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts” - Marcus Aurelius


603. “To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”


604. “The mind is just like a muscle – the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.” –Idowu Koyenikan


605. “Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well.”


606. “It takes a strong fish to swim against the current.  Even a dead one can float with it.”


607. “It is the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief.  And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”


608. “The longest journey is the journey inward. ”- Dag Hammarskjold


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


610. “Your inner strength is your outer foundation” 


611. “We are what we frequently do.”


612. “We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.”


613. “It only takes one person to change your life – you.” –Ruth Casey


614. “The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.”


615. “Who is a true seeker grows, learns and discovers that he is the only one responsible for what happens.” –Jorge Bucay


616. “I am expanding into my highest potential and becoming all I am destined to be.”


617.  “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. ” - Jane Goodall


618. “Remember the lesson you had to learn and let it go. ”


619. “I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.”


620. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ” – Aristotle


621. “You are no better than anyone else, and no one is better than you.” 


622. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. ” -Mother Teresa


623. “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. ” ― Rob Siltanen     


624. “Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.”


625. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ” — George Bernard Shaw


626. “I tell people everywhere I go that my success began the day I started focusing on developing who I am as a person. ” — Eric Thomas


627. “Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.” –Robin Sharma


628. “Curiosity improved the cat. ” ― Brandon Nankivell


629. “No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.”


630. “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities.  They vary in their desire to reach their potential.”


631. “Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive”. –Matt Cameron


632. “The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.” –B. R. Haydon


633. “Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.”


634. “Procrastination will delay your change!!! Today is a very good day to change; don’t let YOU stop yourself from growing!” – Steve Harvey


635. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw


636. “Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become.”


637. “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”


638. “An education is not so much about making a living as making a person. ”― Tara Westover


639. “You need an attitude of survive. You're not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them. ” — Oprah Winfrey


640. “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein


641. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”


642. “Growth is necessary but don't convince yourself that those past versions of you were worthless. You wouldn't be here without them. ”


643. “Chase your dreams until you catch them… and then dream, catch, and dream again!” – Dee Marie


644. “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. ” – Les Brown


645. “If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.”


646. “The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves. ” – Bob Proctor


647. “Let the unsolved worries sit and unfold in their own time. ”


648. “To achieve professional growth, you must be open to feedback and willing to make changes. ” – Unknown


649. “Self-care isn’t just a gift to yourself, it’s a gift to others. It allows you to be the best person you can be to them, too. ”


650. “Great leaders develop through a never-ending process of self-study, self-reflection, education, training, and experience. ” – Tony Buon


651. “Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead. ”


652. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anaïs Nin, writer


653. “We will either find a way or make one.”


654. “A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. ” -Margaret Mead


655. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” –Maya Angelou


656. “Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.”


657. “Be the change you want to see in this world. ” – Gandhi


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


659. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. ” – Sam Levenson


660. “Real growth and development is when you start checking and correcting yourself. ”


661. “Success it the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals.”


662. “ Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. ” - Albert Einstein


663. “Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future. ” -Walt Disney


664. “You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.” 


665. “Every moment of one’s existence, one is growing into more or retreating into less. ” ―Norman Mailer


666. “Champions aren’t made in the gyms.  Champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision.”


667. “The road to success is always under construction. ” – Unknown


668. “Don’t let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.”


669. “Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. ”


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


671. “What others think about you isn’t important. Your only job is to keep growing and glowing. ”


672. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. – Maya Angelou


673. “It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.”


674. “Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.”


675. “One child, one teacher, one pen, and one book can change the world” -Malala Yousafzai


676. “If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself. ” — Jim Rohn


677. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” –will durant


678. “Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”


679. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there. ” – Theodore Roosevelt


680. “There is only one corner of the universe that you can be sure of improving and it is yourself” –Aldous Huxley.


681. “You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.” 


682. “It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not. ” – Denis Waitley


683. “If you would stop analyzing everything and just look for things to appreciate, you would live happily ever after. ”


684. “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. ” — Ernest Hemingway


685. “Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.”


686. “It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.”


687. “History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn’t have to get caught in that.” 


688. “The only way to do great things is to be passionate and committed to what you do. ” – Steve Jobs


689. “It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”


690. “Being a human being means to be different and make waves. Even the clouds change. ”


691. “I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We're made to grow.You either evolve or you disappear.” 


692. “Self-respect is the fruit of discipline, the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ” – Abraham Joshua Heschel


693. “Be true to yourself by choosing growth over stagnation. ”


694. “Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.


695. “You need an attitude of survive. You’re not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them. ” —Oprah Winfrey


696. “Be the change you want to see in the world. ” – Mahatma Gandhi


697. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”


698. “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”


699. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”


700. “The past has no power over the present moment.”


701. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. ” – Wayne Gretzky


702. “Ideally, the market itself is also growing quickly, which can make a smaller market attractive and a large market irresistible. ”


703. “Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want. ” — Jim Rohn


704. “Today is a new day and it brings with it a new set of opportunities for me to act on.


705. “The power of imagination makes us infinite. ” – John Muir


706.  “The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. ” - Benjamin Mays


707. “Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it.”


708. “The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. ” – Lao Tzu


709. “We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world”  – Helen Keller 


710. “You don’t need to change the world; you need to change yourself. ” – Don Miguel Ruiz


711. “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ” – William James


712. “So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can.  Because that’s where you will find success. On the far side of failure.”


713. “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” - Buddha


714. “Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging. ” –Marcus Aurelius


715. “Motivation is what gets you started.  Habit is what keeps you going!”


716. “In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.”


717. “The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win. ” – Kobe Bryant


718. “Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.”


719. “A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere.”


720.  “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. ” - Maya Angelou


721. “Ability may take you to the top, but it takes character to stay there.”


722. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”


723. “Sometimes you must go through short-term pain to reach long-term goals. ”


724.  “We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are. ” - Oprah Winfrey


725. “Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.”


726. “Anything in life worth having is worth working for.”


727. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”


728. “To grow yourself, start from knowing yourself. ” – Anonymous


729. “I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.”


730. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”


731. “Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. ” -Nikos Kazantzakis


732. “If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said ‘Don’t change anything. ’” -Henry Ford


733. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment. ” – Stephen Covey


734. “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”


735. “If you don’t have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer.”


736. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot, author


737. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. ”— Maya Angelou


738. “Action is the foundational key to all success.”


739.  “When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them. ” - Karen E. Quinones Miller


740. “You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.” — Steven Soderbergh


741. “Your inner strength is your outer foundation. ” – Allan Rufus


742. “Everything you need is within reach, the key is whose going to reach. ”


743. “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”


744.  “The greatest investment you will ever make is investing in you. ” —Wesam Fawzi


745. “Success is not so much what we have, as it is what we are.”


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


747. “You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.” - Paulo Coelho


748. “To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.”


749. “A man’s true delight is to do the things he was made for. ” – Marcus Aurelius


750. “Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”


751. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. ” – Socrates


752. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. ” – Confucius


753. “I tell people everywhere I go that my success began the day I started focusing on developing who I am as a person. ” — Eric Thomas


754. “Change equals self-improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before. ” – Pat Summitt


755. “We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.”


756. “Change is inevitable. Growth is optional. ” -John C. Maxwell


757. “We must become the change we want to see.” — Mahatma Gandhi


758. “You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind. ” — Steven Soderbergh


759. “I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. ” -Jimmy Dean


760. “We Are What We Frequently Do. ” – Aristotle


761. “We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them. ”


762. “Every dad wants his daughter to grow up with dignity, self-respect, grace, humility, virtue, and significance. ” – Darrel Billups


763. “Your ego may get bruised, but it will recover. But your subconscious won’t recover from the damage if you stay the same. ”


764. “Progress comes with practice, and practice comes with purpose. Know your “why. ”” – Melissa Steginus


765. “If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”


766. “Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”


767. “The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.”


768. “Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. ” – James Allen


769. “Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.”


770. “Real growth and development is when you start checking and correcting yourself. ” · 2. “Invest in 


771. “Even if you feel hesitation tapping your shoulder, move forward into the unknown. ”


772. “Absorb What Is Useful, Discard What Is Not, Add What Is Uniquely Your Own.” –Bruce Lee


773. “For every mountain there is a miracle.”


774. “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level. ” – Eckhart Tolle


775. “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”


776. “There is one single thread binding my way together…the way of the Master consists in doing one’s best…that is all. ” – Confucius


777. ” ― Stephen Richards – Self Improvement Quotes


778. “Always bear in mind that our own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.”


779. “I’ve never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.”


780. “Follow your bliss!”


781. “Optimists are right.  So are pessimists.  It’s up to you to choose which you will be.”


782. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. ” – Ralph Waldo Emerson


783. “Change in all things is sweet. ” -Aristotle


784. “People can cry much easier than they can change. ”


785. “Learning never exhausts the mind.” — Leonardo da Vinci


786. “Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. ” — Ralph Waldo Emerson


787. · “Learning never exhausts the mind. ” — Leonardo da Vinci · “ 


788. “Dare to love yourself


789. “Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery. ” – Rick Warren


790.  “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. ” - Babe Ruth


791. “I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.”


792. “I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”


793. “Don’t fear failure.  Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”


794. “Professional growth requires discipline, hard work, and a willingness to take risks. ” – Unknown


795. “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. ” – Charles R. Swindoll


796. “Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind. ” — Bruce H. Lipton


797. “Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.”


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


799. “Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. ” - James Allen


800. “We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.”


801. “A man who asks is a fool for five minutes. A man who never asks is a fool for life.” — Chinese Proverb


802.  “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. ” - Carl Bard


803. “When you want something bad enough, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” - Paulo Coelho


804. “Don’t think about making money, think about making a difference, spot where others are doing it badly and do it better. ”


805. “Life is like a game of chess.


806. “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change” -Albert Einstein


807. “What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.”


808. “If you know what to do to reach your goal, it’s not a big enough goal. ” ― Bob Proctor


809. “If the people in your circle aren’t contributing to your growth, then you’re not in a circle… you’re in a cage. ”― Kianu Starr


810. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. ” – Henry Ford


811. “Your job is to be the best that you can possibly be. ” – Brain Tracy


812. “Talent comes from experience and failure. ”


813. “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”


814. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. ” – Franklin D. Roosevelt


815. “There’s always room for improvement. ”


816. “The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.”


817. “When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.”


818. —Dr. · Be not afraid of 


819. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”


820. “You have the power to refuse to be in a bad mood. Be patient with yourself while you’re learning to work through it. ”


821. “Whatever we think about and thank about, we bring about.”


822.  “I would like to think that all of my successes in life are really just the fruit of my failures. ” - Yvie Oddly


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


824. “I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life. ”


825. “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are. ” – John Pierpont Morgan


826. “Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission. ” – Zig Ziglar


827. “In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess. ” – The Dalai Lama


828. “Truly successful people know that growth is a way of life. ”


829. “In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds. ” -Jacque Fresco


830. “Chase your dreams, but never forget the value of hard work. ” – Unknown


831.  “You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness. ” - Diane von Furstenberg


832. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” –Paulo Coelho


833. “I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.”


834. “The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles. ” – Unknown


835. “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”


836. “Fear overrides all rational thinking. ”


837. “You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. ” ― Henry David Thoreau


838.  “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful. ” - Malala Yousafzai


839. “Be The Change You Want To See In The World. ” – Gandhi


840. “Is is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.”


841. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. ” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson


842. “It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”


843. “Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”


844. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. ” – Steve Jobs


845. “It is never too late to be what you might have been. ” – George Eliot


846. “May you live every day of your life.”


847. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. ” -John D. Rockefeller


848. “The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”


849. “What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters to what lies within us.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson


850. “Always think, ‘what’s the worst that can happen’ and have some kind of strategy to deal with it. ”

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