Personal Growth Quotes - Page 3

• We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Inspirational, Learning, Growth

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• Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Strength, Retirement

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• Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Birthday, Self, Achievement

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• Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

  Julia Cameron

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Apr 21, 2017

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• The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Change, Years, Personality

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  I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Personal Knowledge, World

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1771). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.66

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Growth, Self Improvement

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• Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

  Judith Viorst

  Happiness, Friends, Laughter

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Keys

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 09, 2017

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• I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Poor people and most of the middle class are not willing to be uncomfortable. Remember, being comfortable is their biggest priority in life... The only time you can actually grow is when you are outside your comfort zone.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Priorities In Life

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• Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

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• There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.358, Tuttle Publishing

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• Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Change, Clever

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

  Juvenal

  Growth, Care, Know Thyself

  Juvenal (1836). “The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis,”, p.129

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• The definition of success is getting many of the things money can buy and all the things money can't buy.

  Zig Ziglar

  Growth, Definitions, Definition Of Success

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• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cute

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Business, Good Life

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [43]

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• Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Knowledge, Underwear, Shows

  Twitter post from Apr 10, 2014

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