Inspirational Quotes

 On Personal Growth

First say to yourself what you will be; and then do what you have to do.
-Epictetus-

Hitch your wagon to a star.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

Stop going with the flow in your life. Start your own river instead.
-Phillip C. McGraw-

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it
even if i may not have it at the beginning.
-Mahatma Gandhi-

I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned that the
only way things are going to change for me is when I change.
-Jim Rohn-

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.
-Abraham Maslow-

There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love.
There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
-Wayne Dyer-

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.
-Tom Hopkins-

Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
-Anonymous-

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
-Christian Nevell Bovee-

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
-Henry David Thoreau-

Everything you need you already have.
You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
-Wayne Dyer-

We are not just our behavior, we are the person managing our behavior.
-Kenneth Blanchard-

To attract attractive people, you must be attractive. To attract powerful people, you must be powerful. To attract committed people, you must be committed. Instead of going to work on them, you go to work on yourself. If you become, you can attract.
-Jim Rohn-

Just do what you do best.
-Red Auerbach-

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher
or better than themselves.
-Tryon Edwards-

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon.
The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy,
the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything
happens.
-Ethel Barrymore-

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.
-David Viscott-

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it
comes from within. It is there all the time.
-Anna Freud-

We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life.
-Judith Wright-

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
-Galileo-

Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask, but when we are challenged to be what we can be.
-Morris Adler-

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive
very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.
-St. Teresa of Avila-

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.
-Chinese Proverb-

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt-

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
-Marcel Proust-

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
-Yogi Berra-

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
-Harold Whitman-

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
-Ellen Parr-

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
-Galileo-

You are not called to be a canary in a cage.
You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
-Henry Ward Beecher-

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
-Edmund Hillary-

Don't accept that others know you better than yourself. Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.
-James Allen-