If you believe your talents can be developed through hard work, good strategies, and input from others, you have a growth mindset. Remember that growth is the ongoing process of understanding and developing yourself in order to achieve your fullest potential. Famous growth quotes will inspire and encourage you to shift your thinking to become the best version of yourself.
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Best Growth Quotes
Be the change you want to see in this world. Gandhi
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul John Keats
2In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess. The Dalai Lama
We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky. Walter Mosley
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. Albert Einstein
My turn shall also come I sense the spreading of a wing. Osip Mandelstam
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche
We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it. Rick Warren
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve the fear of failure. Paulo Coelho
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength. Sigmund Freud
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be. Heath L. Buckmaster
What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller. Paul Klee
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission. Zig Ziglar
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it. Andy Rooney
A man’s true delight is to do the things he was made for. Marcus Aurelius
I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. Rainer Maria Rilke
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world Helen Keller
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing. Marcel Proust
There is one single thread binding my way together the way of the Master consists in doing one’s best that is all. Confucius
I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end. Daphne Du Maurier
What holds most people back isn’t the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves. You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be. Russell Simmons
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. Edward Abbey
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. Eckhart Tolle
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. John F. Kennedy
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning heart. Thus just as one’s heart, by pumping blood to one’s arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue. Rollo May
Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change. Roy T. Bennett
But until a person can say deeply and honestly, I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday, that person cannot say, I choose otherwise. Stephen R. Covey
What makes night within us may leave stars. Victor Hugo
You have to begin to tell the story of your life as you now want it to be and discontinue the tales of how it has been or of how it is. Jerry Hicks
As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking. James Allen
I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books I’m beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn’t pleasant, it’s not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves. Hermann Hesse
Don’t take anything personally. Nothings others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering. Don Miguel Ruiz
There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness. Katerina Stoykova Klemer
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. Viktor E. Frankl
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Viktor E. Frankl
So what is the difference between power thinking and positive thinking? The distinction is slight but profound. To me, people use positive thinking to pretend that everything is rosy, when they really believe that it’s not. With power thinking, we understand that everything is neutral, that nothing has meaning except for the meaning we give it, and that we are going to make up a story and give something it’s meaning T. Harv Eker
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow. Thomas Paine
We all have something that we are meant to do. Your genius will shine through, and happiness will fill your life, the instant you discover your higher purpose you will then direct all your energies towards it. Robin Sharma
This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified. Martin Luther
What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. Anaïs Nin
The mind is just like a muscle the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand. Idowu Koyenikan
We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving. Napoleon Hill
Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis. Zig Ziglar
Whenever I am in a difficult situation where there seems to be no way out, I think about all the times I have been in such situations and say to myself, I did it before, so I can do it again. Idowu Koyenikan
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned. Buddha
When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow. Shauna Niequist
You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making. Stephen Richards
You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow. Idowu Koyenikan
An education is not so much about making a living as making a person. Tara Westover
The writer’s curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored. Criss Jami
The greatest investment you’ll ever make is investing in you. Wesam Fawzi
There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind you are the one who hears it Michael A. Singer
It’s really not your business what others are doing. What matters is what you’re doing. Clyde Lee Dennis
Every problem is a gift without problems we would not grow. Anthony Robbins
The longest journey is the journey inward. Dag Hammarskjold
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are. Cherie Carter
We all have internal struggles and personal challenges. Do not let anyone make you feel bad about yours. Izey Victoria Odiase
Do not think of knocking out another person’s brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. Horace Mann
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
Books are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with em, then we grow out of em and leave em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. Dorothy L. Sayers
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become. Eli Cohen
Wildflower; pick up your pretty little head, It will get easier, your dreams are not dead. Nikki Rowe
We are either moving forward or moving backward. There is no such thing as standing still. Becky Williamson-Martin
You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself. Mandy Hale
The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development. Jim Rohn
Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer. Rainer Maria Rilke
Every moment of one’s existence, one is growing into more or retreating into less. Norman Mailer
Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower beautiful in essence. Tony Samara
