Top 200 Growth Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.”

— Confucius

152. “Your curiosity is your growth point. Always.”

— Danielle LaPorte

153. “What got you here won’t get you there.”

— Marshall Goldsmith

154. “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

155. “The biggest risk a person can take is to do nothing.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

156. “Remember anything you want that’s valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.”

— Tony Robbins

157. “I know change can be painful. But from change comes growth.”

— Jon Stewart

158. “Why resist change when it’s the main source of your growth?”

— Robin S. Sharma

159. “What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

160. “Success takes an investment in time, dedication, and sacrifice. This is true education. It is a process.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

161. “Example is leadership.”

— Albert Schweitzer

162. “What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”

— Rumi

163. “Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.”

— Harold S. Kushner

164. “Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.”

— James Cash Penney

165. “Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.”

— Oprah Winfrey

166. “Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”

— Oprah Winfrey

167. “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”

— J.K. Rowling

168. “Are you a thermometer or a thermostat? A thermometer only reflects the temperature of its environment, adjusting to the situation. But a thermostat initiates action to change the temperature in its environment.”

— Nido R. Qubein

169. “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

170. “Life is a classroom. Only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.”

— Zig Ziglar

171. “If you want to change your life you have to raise your standards.”

— Tony Robbins

172. “Big doors swing on little hinges.”

— W. Clement Stone

173. “Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.”

— Susan L. Taylor

174. “All limits exist only in the mind, and it is only in the mind that they can be overcome.”

— Alan Cohen

175. “Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

176. “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.”

— Jim Rohn

177. “Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.”

— Seth Godin

178. “Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.”

— Bill Gates

179. “Commitment to love – to growth, to authentic power is an everyday application of your will.”

— Gary Zukav

180. “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

181. “Every mind needs friendly contact with other minds, for food of expansion and growth.”

— Napoleon Hill

182. “Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

183. “To get to that next level, you gotta learn to get comfortable being uncomfortable.”

— Eric Thomas

184. “Man’s duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself.”

— Immanuel Kant

185. “We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.”

— W.H. Auden

186. “Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

187. “In the old economy, it was all about having the answers. But in today’s dynamic, lean economy, it’s more about asking the right questions. A More Beautiful Question is about figuring out how to ask, and answer, the questions that can lead to new opportunities and growth.”

— Eric Ries

188. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.”

— Og Mandino

189. “If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don’t want to be. ”

— Dale Carnegie

190. “Keep challenging yourself to think better, do better, and be better.”

— Robin S. Sharma

191. “You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.”

— Deepak Chopra

192. “All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”

— Walt Disney

193. “Whatever happens, take responsibility.”

— Tony Robbins

194. “It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.”

— Jane Fonda

195. “You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.”

— Brian Tracy

196. “Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be.”

— Brian Tracy

197. “It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching - it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life.”

— Robin S. Sharma

198. “Personal development – the never ending chance to improve not only yourself, but also to attract opportunities and affect others.”

— Jim Rohn

199. “I am open and receptive to all the good and abundance in the Universe.”

— Louise Hay

200. “You live, you learn, and you upgrade.”

— Anonymous