53 Beautiful Personal Growth Quotes to Live By
A collection of 53 beautiful personal growth quotes to inspire, uplift and guide you through life.
The thing that I love about reading is that it connects you with someone whom you’ve never met, and may have lived decades, hundreds or even thousands of years before you. And when you read the words they’ve written, you’ve connected with them through space and time. It’s like magic.
I love the moments of coming across a quote that speaks directly to your heart; almost as if you were meant to find those words at that exact moment.
Here are 53 personal growth quotes that speak directly to my heart. I hope they do the same for you.
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“Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
― Mark Twain
“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
“Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.”
― Brian Weiss
“How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.”
― June Ahern
“The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.”
― Stephen Richards
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.”
― Brené Brown
“If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.”
― Fulton J. Sheen
“Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.
Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. You are worthy of all that you dream of and hope for.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about.”
― Stephen Richards
“When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else.”
― Brian Weiss
“Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it.”
― Stephen Richards
“Come from the heart, the true heart, not the head. When in doubt, choose the heart. This does not mean to deny your own experiences and that which you have empirically learned through the years. It means to trust your self to integrate intuition and experience. There is a balance, a harmony to be nurtured, between the head and the heart. When the intuition rings clear and true, loving impulses are favored.”
― Brian Weiss
“The more you believed in yourself, the more you could trust yourself. The more you trust yourself, the less you compare yourself to others.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana.”
― Amit Ray
“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.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.”
― Joseph Campbell
“When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.”
― Marianne Williamson
“She remembered who she was
and the game changed.”
― Lalah Delia
“Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost
“Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
― Dr. Seuss
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut
“Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham
“Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“Where there is love there is life.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“May you live every day of your life.”
― Jonathan Swift
“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton
“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― Dale Carnegie
“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.”
― Lao Tzu
“Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“The past has no power over the present moment.”
― Eckhart Tolle
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot
“Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”
― Paulo Coelho
“Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.
If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more?”
― Roy T. Bennett
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll
“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”
― Stephanie Perkins
“The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire
“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.”
― Paulo Coelho
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry