#Personal Growth Quotes

“Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.”

“Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.”

“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.”

“Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.”

“Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”

“Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.”

“Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.”

“The fears you don’t face control you. The fears you face, you move beyond.”

“How others treat me is their path; how I react is mine.”

“A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.”

“you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be”

“Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.”

“Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.”

“Blame is a neat little device that you can use whenever you don't want to take responsibility for something in your life. Use it and you will avoid all risks and impede your own growth.”

“The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.”

“In life we have many disappointments. Those who go on to greater things dwell on the disappointments briefly and then move on”

“Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.”

“Giving is like a muscle. To be strong, you have to exercise it, and to grow as a person, giving is the exercise. You can't really enjoy anything without sharing it.”

“You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.”

“The 3 C's of Life: Choices, Chances and Changes.You must make a choice to take a chance or you will never change.”

“Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the millions who insist on acquiring habits that are bad, expensive, and create problems. The habit they weren't going to get, got them!”

“What you feed your mind determines your appetite.”

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”

“The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.”

“Stop waiting for others to change. Recognize that every person has the right to be whatever they choose-even if you irritate yourself about it.”

“I am much more powerful today than the old programs and mind viruses that I absorbed in my childhood.”

“You must send blame out of your life for any conditions of your life.”

“If you still are growing, you go through the archetype of the statesman or stateswoman. You stop asking "What are my quotas?" and stop saying "What is in it for me?" and "How much can I get?" You begin to say, instead, "What are your quotas?" and, "How may I serve?" Providing for others becomes much more important in your life than what you can get for yourself.”

“My goal is not to be better than anyone else..but to be better that I used to be”

“Your input determines your outlook. Your outlook determines your output, and your output determines your future.”

“The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.”

“Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.”

“We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.”

“A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.”

“I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.”

“Possibly the greatest waste in life is the gap between what you are and what you could become.”

“You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time... the habit takes over.”

“Usually, making excuses is just something we can get away with, rather than challenging or changing ourselves. If you want to change and you want your life to work at a level you've never had before, then take responsibility for it.”

“You are the sum total of your choices.”

“Before a person can achieve the kind of life he wants, he must think, act, walk, talk and conduct himself in all of his affairs as would the person he wishes to become.”

“Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.”

“Whether you respond to life or react to life determines how far you're gonna go in life.”

“If you're blaming something or someone else for the way you are, then that person, those people, those circumstances or those energies, are going to have to change in order for you to get better; that's most likely never going to happen. It's also a way to manipulate other people.”

“The only thing an excuse gives you is an option out of the life you'd like to live.”

“You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.”

“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.”

“Neither your family nor your culture gave you your personality. You created it yourself.”

“Releasing guilt is like removing a huge weight from your shoulders. Guilt is released through the empowering thought of love and respect for yourself. Let go of standards of perfection and refuse to use up the precious currency of your life, the now, with thoughts that continue to frustrate and weaken you. Instead, vow to be better than you used to be, which is the true test of nobility.”

“Don't judge me by my past. I don't live there anymore”

“The more bitter the desert experience, the sweeter the water of the oasis.The more I understand myself, the more effectively I can work with others.”