Before you can make progress, you have to understand what’s standing in your way. In order to achieve personal growth, you need to step outside your comfort zone and make a conscious choice about how you allocate your time every day and every week in order to create different results. 

Check out our top 10 favorite quotes on personal growth from successful authors, writers, and anthropologists to get your company and employees inspired! 

 

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

– Jane Goodall, English Primatologist and Anthropologist

 

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

– Oprah Winfrey, Author, Philanthropist

 

 

“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, American Jazz Singer, and Songwriter

 

“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 harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

– Mark Twain, American Author 

 

 

“You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow.”

– Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

 

 

“With self-discipline most anything is possible.”

– Theodore Roosevelt, American Politician

 

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

– Mark Twain, American Author 

 

“Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.”

– Brian Tracy, Canadian-American Motivational Public Speaker

 

 

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

– Robin Sharma, Canadian Writer, Leadership Expert, Motivational Speaker

 

 

“Building our resilience muscles starts with the way we process the negative events in our lives. Mental toughness is a prerequisite for personal growth and success.”

– Keisha Blair, Holistic Wealth: 32 Life Lessons to Help You Find Purpose, Prosperity, and Happiness