Top 200 Personal Development Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “It wasn’t until I began to work on my inner life and know myself that my life changed. Success really does begin within. The size and quality of your outer life is only limited by the size and quality of your inner life.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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

— John C. Maxwell

153. “The major key to your better future is you.”

— Jim Rohn

154. “Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension.”

— Abdul Kalam

155. “Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life.”

— Tony Robbins

156. “How long should you try? Until.”

— Jim Rohn

157. “Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.”

— Swami Vivekananda

158. “Make your life a masterpiece: Step beyond the demands of the moment and begin right now to design and live the life you deserve.”

— Tony Robbins

159. “Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be; if you think yourself strong, you will be.”

— Swami Vivekananda

160. “You are the hero of your own story.”

— Joseph Campbell

161. “When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it.”

— Jim Rohn

162. “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

163. “When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.”

— Alan Watts

164. “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

— Marcus Aurelius

165. “I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.”

— Brené Brown

166. “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

167. “You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.”

— John C. Maxwell

168. “If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.”

— Zig Ziglar

169. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

— Albert Schweitzer

170. “Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.”

— William Arthur Ward

171. “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.”

— Eric Thomas

172. “If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”

— William James

173. “Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.”

— Napoleon Hill

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

— John C. Maxwell

175. “If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

— Thomas A. Edison

176. “Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

177. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

— Jim Rohn

178. “If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.”

— Napoleon Hill

179. “Learning gives creativity. Creativity leads to thinking. Thinking provides knowledge. Knowledge makes you great.”

— Abdul Kalam

180. “Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.”

— Les Brown

181. “You can’t win unless you first begin. So start now.”

— Robin S. Sharma

182. “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

183. “Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.”

— John C. Maxwell

184. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”

— Jim Rohn

185. “The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.”

— Napoleon Hill

186. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

— George Eliot

187. “Progress equals happiness.”

— Tony Robbins

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

— Marshall Goldsmith

189. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

190. “Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.”

— Swami Vivekananda

191. “If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done.”

— Thomas Jefferson

192. “Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.”

— Imam Ali

193. “Don’t waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.”

— Mario Quintana

194. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”

— Zig Ziglar

195. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”

— Earl Nightingale

196. “All things are difficult before they are easy.”

— Thomas Fuller

197. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”

— Albert Einstein

198. “Make it happen now, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is a loser's excuse.”

— Farrah Gray

199. “If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.”

— Deepak Chopra

200. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

— Jim Rohn