15 Personal Growth Quotes To Unleash The Best You (2021)

Our latest collection of the best personal growth quotes, on Everyday Power! Happiness comes from seeing what you are capable of….and surprising yourself!

These amazing personal growth quotes are mantras for personal growth and greatness! We all need reminders! Enjoy this list of popular and rare quotes, and check out additional self help quotes when you’re finished!

Personal Growth Quotes

1. “You don’t need to change the world; you need to change yourself.” ― Miguel Ruiz

**One of our favorite personal growth quotes** Deciding to change the world can seem overwhelming and at time even ridiculous, if you haven’t started with yourself. Start with improving your corner of the universe…you.

2. “Why are you going to choose failure when success is an option?” ― Jillian Michaels

Don’t let fear put you on autopilot. Be mindful of the choices you have in every situation. Success is ALWAYS and option.

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

Let your pain, disappointment and fear push you towards having the courage to be who you are capable of being.

4. “For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own.” – Frank Press

5. “No one is coming to save you. You can’t have an ideal partner without working towards your ideal self.” – Jeff Moore

Be the person you want to meet. Be your own hero. Then watch them walk into your life.

6. “Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them.” ― Mia Hamm

Appreciate all that you’ve done and stay hungry. You’ve got more to give than you know.

7. “We boil at different degrees.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

What will it take for you to go to the next level? What really excites you? Are you allowing yourself to boil? What are you waiting for?

8. “The man who views the world at 50 the same he did at 20 has wasted thirty years of his life.” –Muhammad Ali

Every day we have the opportunity to learn, grow and become wiser. Embrace it. Live it.

9. “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

Sometimes the biggest risk is when we risk nothing. Give yourself a chance! Blossom!

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

Personal Growth Quotes about Introspection

11. “Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón

12. “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

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

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

15. “Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are acculated along the way.” – Allan Rufus

16. “Sure I am this day, we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.” ― Winston Churchill

Faith + Desire + Perseverance = Victory! 🙂

17. “Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?”– Eckhart Tolle

Be mindful of the power you give the past. If the past isn’t giving you positive power…let it go. Don’t find reasons to hold on to it. It’s ok…it’s not who you are anymore.

18. “You are Life passing through your body, passing through your mind, passing through your soul. Once you find that out, not with logic, not with the intellect, but because you can feel that Life—you find out that you are the force that makes the flowers open and close, that makes the hummingbird fly from flower to flower. You find out that you are in every tree, and you are in every animal, vegetable, and rock. You are that force that moves the wind and breathes through your body. The whole universe is a living being that is moved by that force, and that is what you are. You are Life.”– Don Miguel Ruiz

Nothing more to say here. You are connected to everything and everything is connected to you. Live large! It’s your destiny!

19. “Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.” – Bo Bennett

20. “You will encounter misguided people from time to time. That’s part of life. The challenge is to educate them when you can, but always to keep your dignity and self-respect and persevere in your personal growth and development.” – Bernice King

21. “Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.” – John C. Maxwell

22. “If you don’t have peace, it isn’t because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.” ― John C. Maxwell

How do you interpret what happens to you? What meaning to do give it? Is your pain in vain or is it part of a higher purpose?

23. “Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.” – Ian K. Smith

Personal growth quotes on the importance of going out of our comfort zone

24. “We’ve observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project.” – Judith Wright

25. “My personal growth stems from the humility with which I navigate the world, namely with a reverence for all of the knowledge that I’ve yet to learn but that is out there available to me.” – Gad Saad

26. “I think it’s really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can, not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what you’re going to do.” – Liev Schreiber

27. “Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.” – Judith Wright

28. “Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression.” – James E. Faust

29. “People on a spiritual path – personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth – are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day.” – Marianne Williamson

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

31. “Through constant familiarity, we can definitely establish new behavior patterns, using our tendency to form habits to our advantage. If we make a steady effort, I think we can overcome any form of negative conditioning and make positive changes in our lives. But we need to remember that genuine change doesn’t happen overnight.” – Dalai Lama

32. “Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them. See the world as a mirror. It is all a reflection of the mind. When you know this, you can grow in every moment, and every experience reveals truth and brings understanding.” – Ajahn Chah

33. “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

When we grow we grow together. When we grow together, we form something greater than before.

34. “Growth usually starts with awareness. Something happens in your life and you realize there is something to do about it.

We might not know what will spark our growth, but when it hits us – we know. Whether it’s finding a new job, getting out of an old relationship or reclaiming our health – when it’s time, take the challenge on and don’t run from it!

35. Sometimes it is when you become exhausted of your old habits where you then observe all the dislikes in your life and you begin living more consciously. You realize that you have a choice in every matter. That your life becomes that which you focus on and that at any time you can assert your personal will power to become what you want to be and not become what the outside circumstances may attempt to mold you into.” ― Jason Micheal Ratliff

One of the biggest challenges in life is committing to being our best self. Whether it’s due to desperation or inspiration, decide to live within a vision that excites you.

Which of these personal growth quotes is your favorite?