82 Personal Growth Quotes For An Abundant Mindset and Success

We’re massive advocates of personal growth and development here at Execute Resources, and this list of Personal Growth quotes is one of our favorite pieces of content to create. We dug through some of the most influential authors, speakers and influencers of both modern-day and times gone by.

If they have positively impacted lives, we’ve probably referenced these individuals on Execute Resources. To make life easier, these are some of the most positive quotes if you’re seeking an abundant mindset so you can power onwards towards success.

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

Mark Twain

2. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Rumi

3. Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.

Paulo Coelho

4. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Jane Goodall

5. The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development.

Robin Sharma

6. In this world you’re either growing or you’re dying, so get in motion and grow.

Lou Holtz

7. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost

8. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Albert Einstein

9. There’s only one growth strategy: work hard.

William Hague

10. Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.

Roy T. Bennett

11. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Edison

12. I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson

13. Don’t go through life, grow through life.

Eric Butterworth

14. I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We’re made to grow.You either evolve or you disappear.

Tupac Shakur

15. We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Henry Ward Beecher

16. I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

William Earnest Henley

17. When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Viktor E. Frankl

18. Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.

Carrie Fisher

19. Without a clear-cut vision and a proper reading of the roadmap we may not reach the buoyant shores of the horizon.

Erik Pevernagie

20. Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Les Brown

21. Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. It will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.

Robin Sharma

22. Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become.

Eli Cohen

23. If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want.

Kevin Ngo

24. Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.

Barbara Sher

25. Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.

Ella Fitzgerald

26. We all have something that we are meant to do. Your genius will shine through, and happiness will fill your life, the instant you discover your higher purpose you will then direct all your energies towards it.

Robin Sharma

27. We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Oprah Winfrey

28. We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Helen Keller

29. I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.

Paulo Coelho

30. A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.

Howard Thurman

31. Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.

Maxwell Maltz

32. When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you…never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

33. We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

34. Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Warren Buffett

35. The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Pablo Picasso

36. Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Jim Rohn

37. One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

Abraham Maslow

38. Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

Dr. Seuss

39. What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny.

Anaïs Nin

40. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Henry David Thoreau

41. Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.

Jean Vanier

42. Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.

Hillary Clinton

43. Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time and energy needed to develop yourself.

Denis Waitley

44. To double your income and success, triple your investment in personal development and professional mastery.

Robin Sharma

45. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Babe Ruth

46. Every morning is a new opportunity to enrich our lives and to understand and expand the best in our life.

Amit Ray

47. You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.

Diane von Furstenberg

48. Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.

Deborah Day

49. The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

Benjamin Mays

50. Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.

Zig Ziglar

51. Personal development is a major time-saver. The better you become, the less time it takes you to achieve your goals.

Brian Tracy

52. A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can’t grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon.

Dalai Lama

53. Sometimes in life we take a leap of faith. Remember, the leap is not about getting from one side to the other. It’s simply about taking the leap…and trusting the air, the universal breath, will support your wings so that you may sour.

Kristi Bowman

54. The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development.

Jim Rohn

55. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

56. Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.

Zig Ziglar

57. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

58. Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

Roy T. Bennett

59. You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.

Stephen Richards

60. What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

61. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

62. You don’t decide what your purpose is in life. You discover it. Your purpose is your reason for living.

Bob Proctor

63. Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.

Steve Maraboli

64. Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving forward. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.

Conrad Hilton

65. Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

Maya Angelou

66. We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.

Earl Nightingale

67. If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

Maya Angelou

68. Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Earl Nightingale

69. As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

James Allen

70. Every moment of one’s existence, one is growing into more or retreating into less.

Norman Mailer

71. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.

J.K. Rowling

72. The greatest investment you’ll ever make is investing in you.

Wesam Fawzi

73. Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.

Brian Weiss

74. What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

75. Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.

Stephen Covey

76. Learn to work harder on yourself than on your job.

Jim Rohn

77. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

78. Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.

Morihei Ueshiba

79. I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

Larry Bird

80. The longest journey is the journey inward.

Dag Hammarskjold

81. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

82. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank