Personal Growth Quotes

Here’s a few Personal Growth Quotes that you hopefully have never seen before:

The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. -Socrates

Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do. -Menander

Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees. -Willard J. Marriott (1900-1985)

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

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life. -James Freeman Clarke

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars. -Brian Tracy

The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us. -Hamerton

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. -Herbert Otto

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 (1940-1973)

Energy and persistence conquer all things. -Benjamin Franklin

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. -Swedish Proverb

The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character. Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything. -Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924)

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

Our moral responsibility is not to stop the future, but to shape it…to channel our destiny in humane directions and to try to ease the trauma of transition. -Alvin Toffler

The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. -John Ruskin (1819-1900)

We find comfort among those who agree with us—growth among those who don’t. -Frank A. Clark

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon…must inevitably come to pass. -Paul J. Meyer

I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I’ve done in my life is between jobs. -Anthony M. Hall

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots. -Frank A. Clark

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth. -Virginia Satir (1916-1988)

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. -Richard M. DeVos

If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone. -John Maxwell

Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness. -Jean Vanier

If you’re going to doubt something, doubt your limits. -Don Ward

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