Top 200 Personal Development Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”

— Rumi

52. “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”

— Jim Rohn

53. “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.”

— Brené Brown

54. “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”

— Dale Carnegie

55. “It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”

— Eckhart Tolle

56. “Don’t wish for less problems; wish for more skills.”

— Jim Rohn

57. “Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.”

— Les Brown

58. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”

— Oprah Winfrey

59. “Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success.”

— Arianna Huffington

60. “I used my pain to push me to greatness.”

— Eric Thomas

61. “Never lower your target ; increase your actions.”

— Grant Cardone

62. “My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.”

— Jim Rohn

63. “Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.”

— Jim Rohn

64. “You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.”

— Oprah Winfrey

65. “Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!”

— Zig Ziglar

66. “What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.”

— Oprah Winfrey

67. “Goal-setting is powerful because it provides focus. It shapes our dreams. It gives us the ability to hone in on the exact actions we need to perform to achieve everything we desire in life.”

— Jim Rohn

68. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

— Maya Angelou

69. “There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.”

— W. Clement Stone

70. “You have something special, you have GREATNESS within you!”

— Les Brown

71. “Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.”

— Denis Waitley

72. “Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits.”

— Brian Tracy

73. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

— Lao Tzu

74. “Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.”

— John C. Maxwell

75. “You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.”

— Robert Collier

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

— Napoleon Hill

77. “When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously, even if it’s just gratitude for breathing, gratitude for the aliveness that you feel in your body. Gratitude is there when you acknowledge the aliveness of the present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Jim Rohn

79. “Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.”

— Oprah Winfrey

80. “If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.”

— John C. Maxwell

81. “Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.”

— Osho

82. “It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.”

— Paulo Coelho

83. “A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

84. “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

85. “Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”

— Brian Tracy

86. “Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.”

— Charles F. Kettering

87. “The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.”

— Brian Tracy

88. “You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.”

— Emmet Fox

89. “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

90. “Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement; you are your most precious resource.”

— Brian Tracy

91. “Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.”

— Bruce Lee

92. “The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they truly inspire your creativity and ignite your passion.”

— Tony Robbins

93. “Your life only gets better when you get better.”

— Brian Tracy

94. “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

95. “Get comfortable with being uncomfortable.”

— Jillian Michaels

96. “The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.”

— Nelson Mandela

97. “Continuous personal and professional development is your key to the future.”

— Brian Tracy

98. “An investment in your personal development is the best investment you can make.”

— Jim Rohn

99. “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”

— Jim Rohn

100. “Be the CEO of your life.”

— Robin S. Sharma