Inner Growth Quotes

• When we are aware of our inner-growth potential yet have no pretensions about ourselves, when we are vulnerable, then we can change.

  Amit Goswami

  Growth, Vulnerable, Pretension

  Amit Goswami, Richard E. Reed, Maggie Goswami (1993). “The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World”, Tarcher

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• Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

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• Every event has a purpose and every setback its lesson. I have realized that failure, whether of the personal, professional or even spiritual kind, is essential to personal expansion. It brings inner growth and a whole host of psychic rewards. Never regret your past. Rather, embrace it as the teacher that it is.

  Robin Sharma

  Spiritual, Teacher, Regret

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.21, Jaico Publishing House

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• Joy is the evidence of inner growth.

  Maria Montessori

  Joy, Growth, Evidence

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  Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.113, Beacon Press

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• The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Military, Glory

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment.

  Robert E. Quinn

  Change, Success, Leadership

  Robert E. Quinn (2010). “Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within”, p.34, John Wiley & Sons

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• It is through solving problems correctly that we grow spiritually. We are never given a burden unless we have the capacity to overcome it. If a great problem is set before you, this merely indicates that you have the great inner strength to solve a great problem. There is never really anything to be discouraged about, because difficulties are opportunities for inner growth, and the greater the difficulty the greater the opportunity for growth.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Inner Strength

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.60, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  Milton Berle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

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• Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its won unhurried pace.

  Brian Weiss

  Patience, Spiritual, Destiny

  Brian L. Weiss (2004). “Same Soul, Many Bodies: Discover the Healing Power of Future Lives through Progression Therapy”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

  Brian Tracy

  Positive, Success, Dream

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Mar 31, 2013

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• If you can dream it, you can make it so.

  Belva Davis

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

  Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  Max Eastman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

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• The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.

  Eric Thomas

  Positive, Thinking, Inner Strength

  Twitter post from Mar 22, 2012

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• If you can dream it, you can do it.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Even the most daring and accomplished people have undergone tremendous difficulty. In fact, the more successful they became, the more they attributed their success to the lessons learned during their most difficult times. Adversity is our teacher. When we view adversity as a guide towards greater inner growth, we will then learn to accept the wisdom our soul came into this life to learn.

  Barbara Rose

  Teacher, Determination, Adversity

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• If you did not face problems you would just drift through life. It is through solving problems in accordance with the highest light we have that inner growth is attained.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Light, Growth, Faces

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.10, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• If only you could see the whole picture, if you knew the whole story, you would realize that no problem ever comes to you that does not have a purpose in your life, that cannot contribute to your inner growth.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Growth, Doe, Purpose

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.9, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• It seems to me that inner growth is the whole moving force behind voluntary simplicity.

  Duane Elgin

  Moving, Simple, Simplicity

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• If only you could see the whole picture, if you knew the whole story, you would realize that no problem ever comes to you that does not have a purpose in your life, that cannot contribute to your inner growth. When you perceive this, you will recognize that problems are opportunities in disguise. If you did not face problems, you would just drift through life. It is through solving problems in accordance with the highest light we have that inner growth is attained.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Opportunity, Light, Growth

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• Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and those who possess and honestly practice it make themselves more through a willingness to make themselves less.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Humor, Practice, Growth

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• The ego must be able to listen attentively and to give itself, without any further design or purpose, to that inner urge toward growth. People living in cultures more securely rooted than our own have less trouble in understanding that it is necessary to give up the utilitarian attitude of conscious planning in order to make way for the inner growth of the personality.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Giving Up, Attitude, Order

  "The Process of Individuation". "Man and His Symbols". Book by Carl Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz, part 3, p. 163, 1964.

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