Top 100 Personal Growth and Development Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Change Quotes, Growth Quotes

2. “The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.”

— John C. Maxwell

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3. “Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.”

— Charlie Munger

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4. “If you don’t keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won’t do it – you need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.”

— Charlie Munger

Also featured in: Resilience Quotes

5. “Spend each day getting a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurt. Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day. At the end of the day - if you live long enough - most people get what they deserve.”

— Charlie Munger

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Investing Quotes

6. “The safest way to try to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want. It’s such a simple idea. It’s the golden rule. You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.”

— Charlie Munger

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Integrity Quotes

7. “Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Gratitude Quotes

8. “What's the best way to get a good spouse? The best single way is to deserve a good spouse because a good spouse is by definition not nuts.”

— Charlie Munger

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Relationship Quotes, Marriage Quotes

9. “Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you’ve won.”

— Charlie Munger

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10. “In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn’t read all the time — none, zero.”

— Charlie Munger

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11. “Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.”

— Charlie Munger

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12. “The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.”

— William James

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes

13. “Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”

— William James

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14. “There are always people who will be better at something than you are. You have to learn to be a follower before you become a leader.”

— Charlie Munger

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15. “Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.”

— Anonymous

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Imam Ali

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18. “Your attitude determines your actions, and your actions determine your accomplishment.”

— John C. Maxwell

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19. “Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.”

— Henry Ford

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20. “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Zig Ziglar

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22. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”

— Tim Notke

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23. “Discipline is giving yourself a command and following it up with action.”

— Bob Proctor

Also featured in: Discipline Quotes

24. “Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.”

— Seneca

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25. “A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.”

— Jim Watkins

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

— Thomas Fuller

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Persistence Quotes

27. “Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you’re never wrong? If you don’t admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you’re bound to make the same one again.”

— Pat Summitt

28. “Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.”

— Alan Cohen

Also featured in: Growth Quotes

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

— Earl Nightingale

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30. “Today i will do what others won’t so tomorrow i can do what others can’t.”

— Jerry Rice

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31. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”

— Aristotle

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Discipline Quotes, Habit Quotes

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

— Albert Einstein

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Goal Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

33. “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”

— Steve Jobs

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34. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

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

— Farrah Gray

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36. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Focus Quotes, Goal Quotes, Time Quotes

37. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

— Mark Twain

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Purpose Quotes, Graduation Quotes

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

— C.G. Jung

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39. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

— Confucius

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40. “If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.”

— Azim Premji

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41. “If you can dream it, you can do it.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Innovation Quotes

42. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”

— Jim Rohn

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43. “Big achievements come one small advantage at a time, one step at a time, one day at time.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Achievement Quotes

44. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Confidence Quotes

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

— Bob Proctor

Also featured in: Growth Quotes

46. “The first step to getting anywhere is deciding you’re no longer willing to stay where you are.”

— Anonymous

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

— Jim Rohn

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48. “Education is the great engine to personal development.”

— Nelson Mandela

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49. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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50. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

— Margaret Fuller

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