Top 200 Growth Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “What you focus on grows.”

— Esther Hicks

52. “Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.”

— John C. Maxwell

53. “We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are.”

— Jim Rohn

54. “Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.”

— C. JoyBell C.

55. “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”

— Swami Vivekananda

56. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”

— Lao Tzu

57. “When you focus on problems, you get more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you have more opportunities.”

— Zig Ziglar

58. “Never regret your past. Rather, embrace it as the teacher that it is.”

— Robin S. Sharma

59. “Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. It will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.”

— Robin S. Sharma

60. “I constantly get out of my comfort zone. Looking cool is the easiest way to mediocrity. The coolest guy in my high school ended up working at a car wash. Once you push yourself into something new, and whole new world of opportunities opens up. But you might get hurt. In fact you will get hurt. But amazingly when you heal – you are somewhere you’ve never been.”

— Terry Crews

61. “Experience life in all possible ways – good, bad, bitter-sweet, dark, light, summer, winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.”

— Osho

62. “Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it.”

— Stephen Richards

63. “Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come.”

— Zig Ziglar

64. “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

— Marcus Aurelius

65. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

66. “Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

67. “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”

— Napoleon Hill

68. “The best revenge is to improve yourself.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

69. “Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”

— Seneca

70. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

— C.G. Jung

71. “The expert at anything was once a beginner.”

— Helen Hayes

72. “Make the work you are doing today better than the work you did yesterday.”

— Robin S. Sharma

73. “You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.”

— Abraham Maslow

74. “Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.”

— John C. Maxwell

75. “Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.”

— Ben Carson

76. “Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.”

— Brian Tracy

77. “Look back at your life. It's always the hardest times that made you who you are.”

— Casey Neistat

78. “Get comfortable with being uncomfortable.”

— Jillian Michaels

79. “Success is something you attract by the person you become.”

— Jim Rohn

80. “We can’t be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.”

— Jeff Bezos

81. “Growth can be painful, change can be painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong. Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it only empties today of its strengths.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

82. “I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.”

— Louisa May Alcott

83. “Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.”

— Simon Sinek

84. “If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.”

— Fred DeVito

85. “Becoming is better than being.”

— Carol S. Dweck

86. “Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.”

— Jim Rohn

87. “The best investment you can make is in yourself.”

— Warren Buffett

88. “Failure is an event, not a person.”

— Zig Ziglar

89. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

— Zig Ziglar

90. “Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.”

— Kevin Systrom

91. “Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.”

— Jim Rohn

92. “You don’t build a business – you build people – and then people build the business.”

— Zig Ziglar

93. “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

94. “What gets measured gets improved.”

— Robin S. Sharma

95. “Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.”

— John C. Maxwell

96. “Don’t look back – you’re not going that way.”

— Mary Engelbreit

97. “Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult.”

— Abdul Kalam

98. “If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”

— Jim Rohn

99. “To grow yourself, you must know yourself.”

— John C. Maxwell

100. “Change is inevitable but personal growth is a choice.”

— Bob Proctor