Top 200 Growth Mindset Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Never say ‘I failed 99 times’, say ‘I discovered 99 ways that cause failure!’”

— Thomas A. Edison

52. “To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation.”

— Abraham Maslow

53. “Do not feel bad about your mistakes or those of others. Love them! Remember that one: they are to be expected; two: they’re the first and most essential part of the learning process; and three: feeling bad about them will prevent you from getting better.”

— Ray Dalio

54. “Life does not always give you what you want, but if you look closely you will see that it gives what you need for growth.”

— Leon Brown

55. “Perfection does not exist – you can always do better and you can always grow.”

— Les Brown

56. “Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.”

— John C. Maxwell

57. “If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

58. “Change is inevitable in life. You can either resist it and potentially get run over by it, or you can choose to cooperate with it, adapt to it, and learn how to benefit from it. When you embrace change you will begin to see it as an opportunity for growth.”

— Jack Canfield

59. “Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”

— Winston Churchill

60. “One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist – you can always do better and you can always grow.”

— Les Brown

61. “Don’t get angry; get better.”

— Tony DiCicco

62. “It’s you versus you.” Meaning, you’re the only thing standing in your own way.”

— Amber Tamblyn

63. “Just because you are struggling does NOT mean you are failing. Every great success requires some kind of struggle to get there.”

— Nicky Gumbel

64. “If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.”

— Rumi

65. “You cannot grow unless you are willing to change. You will never improve yourself if you cling to what used to be.”

— Leon Brown

66. “It doesn’t matter where you start. Only that you begin.”

— Robin S. Sharma

67. “It’s okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers – they help us to learn.”

— John Bradshaw

68. “Continually push yourself out of your comfort zone. Push yourself to stretch as you try new things each day.”

— Brian Tracy

69. “If you fail, learn, and move on, you’re growing.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

70. “Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can’t be done.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

71. “For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.”

— Jack Canfield

72. “I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure.”

— Thomas A. Edison

73. “The real value of setting and achieving goals lies not in the rewards you receive, but in the person you become as a result of reaching your goals.”

— Robin S. Sharma

74. “Be observing constantly. Stay open-minded. Be eager to learn and improve.”

— John Wooden

75. “Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.”

— Shawn Achor

76. “The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.”

— Steve Young

77. “Successful people don’t have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.”

— John C. Maxwell

78. “There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended to achieve it.”

— Denis Waitley

79. “You have not failed until you quit trying.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

80. “Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.”

— Jim Rohn

81. “There’s always another level up. There’s always another ascension. More grace, more light, more generosity, more compassion, more to shed, more to grow.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

82. “When you change your thinking, you change your actions. When you change your actions, you change your future.”

— Zig Ziglar

83. “If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.”

— Les Brown

84. “Today is a new day. A New opportunity to get better stronger faster smarter and closer to your goals and dreams. Take it.”

— Joel Madden

85. “You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.”

— Barack Obama

86. “You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.”

— Tony Robbins

87. “My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had – everyday I’m learning something new.”

— Richard Branson

88. “If you’re not where you want to be, it’s because you’re not who you need to be right now.”

— Eric Thomas

89. “The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today.”

— Tiger Woods

90. “Stay hungry, remain humble and get better today.”

— Pete Carroll

91. “I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.”

— Ken Venturi

92. “Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one rule of thumb: the more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.”

— Steven Pressfield

93. “If you’re afraid to fail, you’ll never succeed.”

— Dan Gable

94. “The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.”

— Jeff Bezos

95. “The past does not equal the future.”

— Tony Robbins

96. “If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.”

— John Wooden

97. “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.”

— Oprah Winfrey

98. “You’ll never reach perfection because there’s always room for improvement. Yet, along the way to perfection, you’ll learn to get better.”

— Hlovate

99. “Be magical, choose and believe that you can do anything you set your mind to. We are who we choose to be.”

— Will Smith

100. “Every day you learn something new.”

— Dennis Brown