Sharpquotes brings you the ultimate list of self growth quotes by famous and successful people.

It’s a an indispensable list of professional growth quotes as well as quotes on development and growth. This crucial list of quotes on growth mindset will enable you think positively in life and develop a new perception towards it. These quotes will inspire and motivate you in any field in life, be it business, social, emotional or personal.

Motivational Quotes for Personal Growth

1. One day spent with someone you love can change everything. – Mitch Albom

2. Just like the butterfly, I too will awaken in my own time. – Deborah Chaskin

3. Trusting yourself is trusting the wisdom that created you. – Wayne Dyer

4. The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. – Anonymous

5. The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good. – Baltasar Gracian

6. The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

7. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’! – Audrey Hepburn

8. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. – George Addair

9. What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. – Tim Ferriss

10. Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. – Steven Wright

11. Focus on where you want to go; not where you currently are. – Anonymous

12. The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way. – Keanu Reeves

13. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. – Mae West

14. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. – Mark Twain

15. Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. – Maya Angelou

16. There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself. – Anthony Rapp

17. People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile. – Lee Mildon

18. No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. – Voltaire

19. If someone throws you the ball, you don’t have to catch it. – Richard Carlson

20. Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

21. Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression. – Karen Horney

22. Everything is connected…no one thing can change by itself. – Paul Hawken

23. If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. – Charles F. Kettering

24. To be a leader you must be able to create positive change. – John C. Maxwell

25. The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp. – William Shatner

26. To invent you need a goal, imagination, and a pile of junk. – Thomas Alva Edison

27. Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love. – Rumi

28. God didn’t do it all in one day. What makes me think I can? – Anonymous

29. Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. – Adlai Stevenson

30. It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. – Niccolo Machiavelli

31. The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

32. To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. – Confucius

33. Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. – Charles Swindoll

34. What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness. – Anonymous

35. Strong you really are until being strong is the only choice. – Anonymous

36. Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. – Albert Schweitzer

37. Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John R. Wooden

38. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. – Thomas Jefferson

39. Smile, it’s the key that fits the lock on everyone’s hearts. – Anonymous

40. You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind. – Timothy Leary

41. Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited. – George Santayana

42. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control. – Julia Cameron

43. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. – Albert Einstein

44. Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. – Dave Barry

45. The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music. – Agnes de Mille

46. Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss. – Douglas Horton

47. Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss. – Miguel Angel Ruiz

48. Enthusiasm is not contrary to reason. It is reason –on fire. – Peter Marshall

49. I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. – Galileo

50. Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom. – Ilya Kabakov

51. A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world. – Leo Buscaglia

52. What happens when people open their hearts? They get better. – Haruki Murakami

53. The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf. – Shakti Gawain

54. You can’t have a universe without the mind entering into it. – Rhonda Byrne

55. Never invest in any idea you can’t illustrate with a crayon. – Peter Lynch

56. Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. – Khalil Gibran

57. The greatest oak was once a little nut, who held its ground. – Anonymous

58. Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality. – Shawn Ashmore

59. Let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average. – A. W. Tozer

60. What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

61. If women could read minds, every second man will get slapped. – Anonymous

62. You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong. – Anonymous

63. If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours. – Proverb

64. Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. – William Plomer

65. That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

66. It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul. – William Styron

67. There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in. – Leonard Cohen

68. When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it. – Mark Victor Hansen

69. Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

70. Events bring you small joy, while existence brings you bliss. – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

71. You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind. – Timothy Leary

72. Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery. – Daniel Dennett

73. Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. – Dodie Smith

74. Every problem is a gift – without problems we would not grow. – Anthony Robbins

75. Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits. – Kahlil Gibran

76. Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. – Madame Curie

77. Every day I run scared. That’s the only way I can stay aheah. – John H. Johnson

78. For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe. – Larry Eisenberg

79. There is no escape. We pay for the violence of our ancestors. – Frank Herbert

80. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. – Napoleon Hill

81. Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. – Euripides

82. Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions. – Albert Einstein

83. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill

84. If the plan doesn’t work, change the plan, but never the goal. – Anonymous

85. Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

86. Fear knocked at the door, Faith answered and nobody was there. – Anonymous

87. Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination. – Roy M. Goodman

88. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Anonymous

89. Life has two rules: #1 Never Quit. #2 Always remember rule #1. – Anonymous

90. The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it’s the opposition. – Nick Seitz

91. Not everyday is good. But there is something good in everyday. – Anonymous

92. If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it. – Andy Rooney

93. It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. – Anthony Robbins

94. True creativity is impossible without some measure of passion. – Teresa Amabile

95. Insanity – a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. – R. D. Laing

96. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world. – Buddha

97. Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community. – Anthony J. D’Angelo

98. A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education. – Smiley Blanton

99. When curiosity turns to serious matters, it’s called research. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

100. To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. – Joseph Pearce

101. The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not. – Mooji

102. To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.~ – Confucius

103. The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. – Michael Altshuler

104. How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward. – Spanish Proverb

105. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas A. Edison

106. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. – Richard Bach

107. Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you. – Arnold Palmer

108. Go big or go home. Because it’s true. What do you have to lose? – Eliza Dushku

109. We must embrace our pain and burn it as a fuel for our journey. – Kenji Miyazawa

110. People with the greatest advise usually have the most problems. – Anonymous

111. Say what you feel. It’s not being rude, it’s called being real. – Anonymous

112. Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. – Zig Ziglar

113. You’ll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile. – Charlie Chaplin

114. A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate symphony. – Abraham Maslow

115. If that’s all there is, my friends, then let’s keep dancing. – Peggy Lee

116. I think if there’s a great depression there might be some hope. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

117. When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. – Walt Disney

118. If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. – Bruce Barton

119. When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears. – Anthony Robbins

120. You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. – Ray Bradbury

121. Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself. – Oprah Winfrey

122. All I’m trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet. – Joshua Nkomo

123. Give without remembering and always receive without forgetting. – Anonymous

124. Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. – Soren Kierkegaard

125. Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you. – Loretta Young

126. Anyone who has ever made anything of importance was disciplined. – Andrew Hendrixson

127. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. – Florence Nightingale

128. You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. – Michael Jordan

129. Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. – Will Rogers

130. Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still. – Chinese proverb

131. Life becomes easier when you delete the negative people from it. – Anonymous

132. You’re the author AND illustrator of your life…don’t plagiarize. – Anonymous

133. You’ve got to keep the child alive; you can’t create without it. – Joni Mitchell

134. There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. – C. S. Lewis

135. The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. – Henry David Thoreau

136. Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears. – Brian Tracy

137. An apology might help, but you can change your life without one. – Robin Quivers

138. Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. – Benjamin Disraeli

139. I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. – Anatole France

140. We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. – Henry David Thoreau

141. A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue. – Russian Proverb

142. If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. – Chinese Proverb

143. Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything. – Rhonda Byrne

144. Today is your day, your mountain is waiting, so get on your way. – Dr. Seuss

145. In life you are either a passenger or a pilot, it’s your choice! – Anonymous

146. Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude. – Paul Tillich

147. A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for. – Grace Hopper

148. Don’t die crying that you can’t climb the mountain. Die climbing. – Anonymous

149. Remember, if you want a different result; do something different. – Anonymous

150. It does not matter how slowly you go; as long as you do not stop. – Confucius

151. Our attitude towards life determines; life’s attitude towards us. – John N. Mitchell

152. It’s not where you live that matters. It’s what lives inside you. – Anonymous

153. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. – John Lennon

154. When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. – William Shakespeare

155. In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. – Deepak Chopra

156. Set a goal that makes you want to jump out of bed in the morning. – Anonymous

157. Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. – Malcolm Forbes

158. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. – Dalai Lama

159. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. – Bruce Lee

160. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out. – Robert Collier

161. How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

162. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. – Maya Angelou

163. Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking. – Mahatma Gandhi

164. When you don’t know what to do, get still. The answer will come. – Oprah Winfrey

165. Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all. – Carlos Castaneda

166. We are most alive when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. – Thornton Wilder

167. I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. – Mahatma Gandhi

168. There will always be people who will accept you for what you are! – Sakura Tsukuba

169. The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. – Mahatma Gandhi

170. If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. – Albert Einstein

171. It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one. – Alex Osborn

172. Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. – A. A. Milne

173. It’s okay to have faith in something that you can’t see or touch. – Chad Kroeger

174. Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have. – Eckhart Tolle

175. Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. – Ray Bradbury

176. I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way. – Carl Sandburg

177. If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. – Marcus Aurelius

178. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. – Margaret Lee Runbeck

179. If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

180. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. – Emily Dickinson

181. When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

182. You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might. – Henry David Thoreau

183. We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us. – Virginia Satir

184. Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. – Chinese Proverb

185. A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there. – Anonymous

186. Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles. – Charlie Chaplin

187. If you don’t change your commitment then sky is the limit for you. – Anonymous

188. Nobody is worth your tears, and the one who is won’t make you cry. – Anonymous

189. The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. – Ellen Parr

190. What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. – Oscar Wilde

191. To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. – Mark Twain

192. Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

193. Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness. – Pearl S. Buck

194. It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference. – Tom Brokaw

195. It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology. – Michael Chabon

196. One person caring about another represents life’s greatest value. – Jim Rohn

197. The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. – Walter Bagehot

198. When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company? – Rene Rivkin

199. You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind. – Sai Baba

200. Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul. – Walt Whitman

201. Slow down. Calm down. Don’t worry. Don’t hurry. Trust the process. – Alexandra Stoddard

202. The self must know stillness before it can discover its true song. – Ralph Brum

203. People know you for what you’ve done, not for what you plan to do. – Anonymous

204. Do you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears? – Anonymous

205. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. – John C. Maxwell

206. Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw

207. Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for. – Oliver James

208. Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. – Dale Carnegie

209. If we’re growing; we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone. – John Maxwell

210. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Rohn

211. Until you start believing in yourself; you ain’t gonna have a life! – Rocky Balboa

212. Failure is only the opportunity; to begin again more intelligently. – Henry Ford

213. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. – Steve Jobs

214. If you do right, no one remembers. If you do wrong, no one forgets. – Anonymous

215. I’m too busy working on my own grass to notice if yours is greener. – Anonymous

216. Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it. – Emily Dickinson

217. Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

218. Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw

219. Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever. – Leo Buscaglia

220. Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go. – Anonymous

221. It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. – Mahatma Gandhi

222. The one thing worse than not being able to see is having no vision. – Helen Keller

223. When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. – Winston S. Churchill

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

225. Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it. – Thomas Alva Edison

226. Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

227. Instructions for life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. – Mary Oliver

228. You can cheat an honest man but you can not make a fool out of him. – Confucius

229. The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you. – Brent Runyon

230. Every thought has a frequency. Thoughts send out a magnetic energy. – Rhonda Byrne

231. People become depressed when they neglect their spiritual practice. – Dharma Mittra

232. Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. – Chinese Proverb

233. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. – Augustine of Hippo

234. A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. – Oprah Winfrey

235. All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney

236. Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. – Soren Kierkegaard

237. Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. – Oprah Winfrey

238. People ask, ‘What’s the best role you’ve ever played?’ The next one. – Kevin Kline

239. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon

240. If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. – Katharine Hepburn

241. The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. – Edith Wharton

242. Wanting to be someone else, is the waste of the person that you are. – Anonymous

243. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

244. Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. – Dale Carnegie

245. If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. – Isaac Newton

246. Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. – Ray Bradbury

247. Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it. – Elaine St. James

248. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill

249. The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. – Eric Hoffer

250. Ideas are like frog eggs: you’ve got to lay a thousand to hatch one. – Peter F. Drucker

251. Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. – Albert Diderot

252. The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. – Ernest Hemingway

253. Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got. – Steven Pressfield

254. Spending time in nature both reduces stress and enhances creativity. – Salli Rasberry

255. The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally. – Dalai Lama

256. It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. – Aristotle

257. The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. – Richard Bach

258. Everything is okay in the end; if it’s not ok, then it’s not the end. – Anonymous

259. The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting. – Walt Disney

260. The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. – Bruce Feirstein

261. Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. – Bruce Lee

262. Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. – Confucius

263. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. – Benjamin Franklin

264. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. – Soren Kierkegaard

265. Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time. – Arnold H. Glasgow

266. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. – Henry David Thoreau

267. Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things. – Theodore Levitt

268. Every door is another passage, another boundary we have to go beyond. – Rumi

269. Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed. – Mason Cooley

270. The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking. – Alan Cohen

271. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. – Albert Einstein

272. If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder. – Ray Bradbury

273. Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

274. Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. – Zora Neale Hurston

275. Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. – Benjamin Franklin

276. Forces against us can never be more powerful than the force within us. – Anonymous

277. First, say to yourself what you would be; Then do what you have to do. – Epictetus

278. Nothing happens by accident. You are exactly where you’re meant to be. – Jerose

279. There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery – Dante Alighieri

280. Never sacrifice three things: your family, your heart or your dignity. – Anonymous

281. A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. – Henry Kravis

282. Best way to not get your heart broken, is pretend you don’t have one. – Charlie Sheen

283. Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change. – Wayne W. Dyer

284. They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. – Confucius

285. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. – Kahlil Gibran

286. It’s no coincidence that four of the six letters in health are ‘heal’. – Ed Northstrum

287. Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the hearts and cools the sting. – Peter Allen

288. A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself. – Chinua Achebe

289. We can have whatever it is that we choose. I don’t care how big it is. – John Assaraf

290. Every single thing you’ve been through in your life has had a purpose. – Beth Moore

291. If everyone thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening. – George Barzan

292. Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. – Napoleon Bonaparte

293. A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. – William Blake

294. A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. – James Cook

295. You are unrepeatable. There is a magic about you that is all your own. – D.M. Dellinger

296. Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. – Ruth E. Renkel

297. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. – Samuel Beckett

298. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. – Jimmy Johnson

299. Sometimes you have to jump first and; build your wings on the way down. – Anonymous

300. Don’t be afraid your life will end; Be afraid that it will never begin. – Grace Hansen