100+ Personal Growth & Development Examples to Transform Your Life

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill

"It always seems impossible until it’s done." – Nelson Mandela

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." – Confucius

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other." – Walter Elliot

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." – Og Mandino

"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." – Sam Levenson

"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." – Michael Jordan

"The hard days are what make you stronger." – Aly Raisman

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated." – Maya Angelou

"Strength does not come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't." – Rikki Rogers

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground." – Theodore Roosevelt

"Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance." – Samuel Johnson

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." – Jim Rohn

"An undisciplined life leads to dissatisfaction and regret." – Roy T. Bennett

"Self-discipline begins with the mastery of yourself and ends with mastery of your fate." – Peter McWilliams

"We must all suffer one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret." – Jim Rohn

"Success doesn't just come to you; you go to it with sweat, ambition, and a disciplined focus." – Dwayne Johnson

"The first and best victory is to conquer self." – Plato

"Do what you should do when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not." – Jocko Willink

"Freedom is found in the discipline of structure." – Robin Sharma

"Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time." – John C. Maxwell

"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning." – Benjamin Franklin

"Motivation gets you started. Habit keeps you going." – Jim Ryun

"You don’t have to be extreme, just consistent." – Steve Cook

"Your talent determines what you can do. Your mindset determines how well you'll do it." – Carol Dweck

"In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening." – Carol Dweck

"Effort is what makes you intelligent or talented." – Carol Dweck

"Becoming is better than being." – Carol Dweck

"The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life." – Carol Dweck

"No matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment." – Carol Dweck

"A year from now, you may wish you had started today." – Karen Lamb

"Mistakes are proof that you are trying." – Jennifer Lim

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today." – Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right." – Henry Ford

"Change your thoughts and you change your world." – Norman Vincent Peale

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Purpose is the reason we strive, not just survive." – Simon Sinek

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." – Friedrich Nietzsche

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." – Mark Twain

"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare." – Japanese Proverb

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work." – Steve Jobs

"If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll probably end up somewhere else." – Lawrence J. Peter

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder." – Thomas Carlyle

"Find your passion, pursue your purpose, and live your legacy." – Germany Kent

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart." – Carl Jung

"Where there is no vision, there is no hope." – George Washington Carver

"Dream big. Start small. Act now." – Robin Sharma

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." – Thomas Edison

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." – Henry Ford

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." – Winston Churchill

"Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage." – Napoleon Hill

"Failure is the tuition you pay for success." – Walter Brunell

"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried." – Stephen McCranie

"Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success." – Arianna Huffington

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all." – J.K. Rowling

"Fail fast, fail often, but always fail forward." – John C. Maxwell

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today." – Will Rogers

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." – Henry Ford

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life." – J.K. Rowling

"Believe you can and you're halfway there." – Theodore Roosevelt

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal." – Thomas Jefferson

"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong." – Peter T. Mcintyre

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is not who you are that holds you back, it is who you think you're not." – Denis Waitley

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will." – Suzy Kassem

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." – Anatole France

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it." – J.M. Barrie

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win." – Zig Ziglar

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." – Vincent Van Gogh

"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." – Samuel Johnson

"You don’t have to be perfect to be amazing." – Unknown

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

"Winners are made when no one is watching." – Alvin Law

"You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems." – James Clear

"The secret of your success is found in your daily routine." – John C. Maxwell

"Small daily improvements lead to stunning results." – Robin Sharma

"First, we make our habits. Then, our habits make us." – Charles C. Noble

"Success is the product of daily habits—not once-in-a-lifetime transformations." – Marc Reklau

"Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart." – Roy T. Bennett

"The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken." – Warren Buffett

"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better." – Pat Riley

"Success isn’t owned; it’s rented, and the rent is due every day." – Chris Zook

"You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily." – John C. Maxwell

"Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision." – Winston Churchill

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear." – George Addair

"Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain." – Mark Twain

"Fear has two meanings: Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours." – Zig Ziglar

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." – Nelson Mandela

"Fear is only as deep as the mind allows." – Japanese Proverb

"You gain power in life by giving it away." – Oprah Winfrey

"Doubt destroys more dreams than failure ever will." – Robert Kiyosaki

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." – Franklin D. Roosevelt

"When you stop fearing, you start winning." – Eric Thomas

"Feel the fear and do it anyway." – Susan Jeffers

"Fear is a liar." – Kanye West

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." – Mahatma Gandhi

"The capacity to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage." – Arie de Geus

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty." – Henry Ford

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." – Jim Rohn

"Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." – Abigail Adams

"The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you." – B.B. King

"Knowledge is power." – Francis Bacon

"Invest in your mind; it’s the new real estate." – Neil Strauss

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." – Malcolm X

"Stay hungry, stay foolish." – Steve Jobs

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." – Benjamin Franklin

"Learning never exhausts the mind." – Leonardo da Vinci

"Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching." – C.S. Lewis

"Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are." – Brené Brown

"In a world where you can be anything, be kind—and true to yourself." – Unknown

"Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you." – Dave Willis

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind." – Dr. Seuss

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." – Maya Angelou

"Integrity is the essence of everything successful." – R. Buckminster Fuller

"Authenticity is the willingness of one to be who they are." – Nathaniel Branden

"To thine own self be true." – William Shakespeare

"Leadership is earned through trust, transparency, and truth." – Simon Sinek

"Truth never damages a cause that is just." – Mahatma Gandhi

"The highest form of integrity is doing the right thing when no one would know otherwise." – C.S. Lewis