#Personal Development Quotes

“Attitude is an inner concept. It is the most important thing you can develop in your life.”

“Dreams grow if you grow.”

“See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails”

“All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone.”

“I'm certainly not saying that my life is what success is all about. To me, success is the ongoing process of striving to become more.”

“It's not about getting what you want. It's about experiencing what you really need by becoming more.”

“The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.”

“The never-ending task of self improvement.”

“In order to take our lives to the next level, we must realize that the same pattern of thinking that has gotten us to where we are now will not get us to where we want to go.”

“We're not happy unless we feel like we're growing.”

“Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow.”

“If you are not growing, you are dying.”

“I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.”

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”

“The best way to get trained is to get mentored - live or by reading or watching videos by masters. That way, you start executing based on lessons from the best.”

“You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.”

“I know from my own education that if I hadn't encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I'm sure I would have been in jail.”

“Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a culture shock than going to India. The people in the Indian countryside don't use their intellect like we do, they use their intuition instead, and their intuition is far more developed than in the rest of the world. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.”

“The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.”

“I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.”

“The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.”

“We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.”

“Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer.”

“Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person - hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre - into an outstanding performer.”

“I did what I knew.. when I knew better, I did better”

“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”

“I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. Once you are crystal clear about the intended end result that you seek to produce, all the ways that it can become a done deal start to reveal themselves to you. There are many who have accomplished exactly what you want to achieve and could show you the way. You are not ready to ask them because you are not clear and you have not determined which questions need answers.”

“If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .”

“Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.”

“Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. You cannot eliminate habits that no longer serve you. You can only replace them with new habits that support your goals. Moment by moment, you need to live with awareness and structure the habits that you include or exclude in your days.”

“Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.”

“Education is the great engine to personal development.”

“First you get a habit, then it gets you.”

“To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within.”

“It gives [a man] the incentive to develop his dormant potential so that when he becomes a part of the brotherhood of Islam, and is identified collectively in the brotherhood of Islam with the brothers in Islam, at the same time this also gives him the, it has the psychological effect of giving him the incentive as an individual to develop all of his dormant potential to its fullest extent.”

“Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.”

“If you can become the leader you ought to be on the inside, you will be able to become the person you want on the outside. People will want to follow you. And when that happens, you'll be able to tackle anything in this world.”

“The best way to ensure success is to start growing today. No matter where you may be starting from, don't be discouraged; everyone who got where he is started where he was.”

“The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.”

“If you keep your mind active, regularly take on mental challenges, and continually think about the right things, you will develop the disciplined thinking that will help you with whatever you endeavor to do.”

“It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.”

“The secret to success can be found in people's daily agendas. If they do something intentional to grow every day, they move closer to reaching their potential. If they don't, their potential slowly slips away over the course of their lifetime.”

“The more intentional you are about your leadership growth, the greater your potential for becoming the leader you're capable of being. Never stop learning.”

“Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.”

“The highest reward for our toil is not what we get for it but what we become by it. ... Mistakes are not failures. They are proof that we are making an effort. When we understand that, we can more easily move out of our comfort zone, try something new, and improve. ... Improvement demands a commitment to grow long after the mood in which it was made has passed.”

“To reach your potential you must grow. And to grow, you must be highly intentional about it.”

“Making the most of your life is unusual. That's why you need to develop unusual habits to earn outstanding rewards.”

“We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.”

“Become a millionaire not for the million dollars, but for what it will make of you to achieve it.”

“You cannot have growth without change.”