Top 200 Growth Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.”

— Elon Musk

102. “You don’t need to change the world; you need to change yourself.”

— Miguel Ruiz

103. “You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.”

— Elon Musk

104. “Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.”

— Swami Vivekananda

105. “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”

— Sigmund Freud

106. “Growth is often a painful process.”

— Elbert Hubbard

107. “You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.”

— Mary Pickford

108. “If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.”

— Bill Gates

109. “Your life will become better by making other lives better.”

— Will Smith

110. “It’s not about the goal. It’s about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.”

— Tony Robbins

111. “Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is.”

— Mark Cuban

112. “Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.”

— John C. Maxwell

113. “This is hard. This is fun.”

— Carol S. Dweck

114. “Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.”

— Robert Tew

115. “Start going the extra mile and opportunity will follow you.”

— Napoleon Hill

116. “If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

117. “I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.”

— Ginni Rometty

118. “Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.”

— Vernon Howard

119. “We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind? We make our own destiny.”

— Swami Vivekananda

120. “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

121. “Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.”

— Earl Nightingale

122. “The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday”

— Matty Mullins

123. “You get what you work for, not what you wish for.”

— Howard A. Tullman

124. “There is no growth without change, no change without fear or loss and no loss without pain.”

— Rick Warren

125. “Make of yourself a light.”

— Buddha

126. “The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul’s growth.”

— Marianne Williamson

127. “Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.”

— Winston Churchill

128. “You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.”

— Oprah Winfrey

129. “In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I’m going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here’s a chance to grow.”

— Carol S. Dweck

130. “The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves. ”

— Socrates

131. “Commit to “CAN I!” – Constant And Never-Ending Improvement.”

— Tony Robbins

132. “The key to SUCCESS is to START before you’re ready.”

— Marie Forleo

133. “What you are to be, you are now becoming.”

— Carl R. Rogers

134. “Whatever good things we build end up building us.”

— Jim Rohn

135. “Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”

— Pema Chödrön

136. “Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.”

— Fred Rogers

137. “You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.”

— Jim Rohn

138. “You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can’t have both.”

— Brené Brown

139. “Don’t push growth; remove the factors limiting growth.”

— Peter Senge

140. “Failure is an option. It’s what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can’t sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption.”

— David Goggins

141. “If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.”

— Leo Tolstoy

142. “One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”

— Tony Robbins

143. “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”

— Rumi

144. “A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.”

— Bruce Lee

145. “The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

146. “Have goals so big your problems pale in comparison.”

— Grant Cardone

147. “Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.”

— Brian Tracy

148. “Successful people are simply those with successful habits.”

— Brian Tracy

149. “The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.”

— C.G. Jung

150. “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