Best 1000 quotes in «personal growth quotes» category

Broken hearts show us we’ve grown out of one stage, by ripping us wide open for the next. We’re forced to choose what we do with all that pain: turn it against ourselves, aim it at someone else, or tap all that power and reach higher.

But I was done trying to wake her up, to make her see. To save her. The only person I could save was myself.

But I'm not running away. I'm running toward... toward adventure, toward discovery, toward diversity. And while I was in Mexico I discovered something intruiging: Once I leave the U.S., I am not bound by the rules of my culture. And when I am a foreigner in another country, I am exempt from the local rules. This extraordinary situation means that there are no rules in my life. I am free to live by the standards and ideals and rules I create for myself.

By healing the parts of ourselves that are frozen in the past, we are able to bring them back into the present - and each time we do this we become less fragmented, and more whole.

...but thinking about it didn't do a thing. Thinking about it was a long dive into a bucket of shit that didn't have a bottom.

By reading, we will know the minds of great soul.

By talking to yourself every hour of the day, you can direct yourself to think thoughts of courage and happiness, thoughts of power and peace. By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for, you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing.

Change cannot and will not happen overnight. But the intent to evolve will produce opportunities for growth.

By becoming a black belt, you will become whatever it is you wanted to be in the first place, and Jiu Jitsu will have served its aim.

Claiming our birthright means living in beauty inwardly regardless of our outer circumstances. It means cultivating the qualities coded in our hearts.

Clearing your head of everything you thought you knew, even your most cherished ideas, will give you the mental space to be educated by your present experience--the best school of all. You will develop your own strategic muscles instead of depending on other people's theories and books.

Be the master of your personal internal universe.

Change leads to growth. Resistance leads to rigidity. Rigidity leads to ...

Change your focus, give power to the positive and starve the negative. We reduce our inner wisdom to think with logic that's been instilled in us whilst expecting miraculous results. Retrain the core issue and the pathway will build itself.

Comfort: The enemy of progress.

Change is the part of the very definition of life. The world changes, and flourishing demands constant growth and life-long learning.

Communication and openness are essential in nurturing understanding, fairness and respect.

Compare yourself to no one else but yourself. It’s not about anybody else’s anything. It’s about YOU. Are you the best you? That’s all you need to worry about. Imagine how awesome it would be if everyone just worried about making themselves the best they could be!

Compared to Eternity, The seconds of "Now" are more valuable than all the money and valuables in the world combined.

Compassion: a robust dance between grace and wisdom.

CONFIDENCE is not showing off your VANITY, it’s about to be HUMBLED and KIND to others what are you truly SKILLED and PROFESSIONAL about…

Continuous learning is nothing without continuous doing.

Creativity is applied Imagination

Conflict never lies between two people. It always lies between rigid beliefs about the other person and the contradictions they show you. Conflict is always an inside job, but until you recognise this, it is easier to blame the other person.

Curiosity improved the cat

Curiosity is the art of creativity.

Cyber bullying occurs online daily. Most don't consider their actions or words to be bullying. Here's a few clues that you're a cyber bully. (1) You post information about someone in order to ruin their character. (2) You post threats to someone. (3) You tag someone in vulgar degrading posts. (4) You post any information intended to harm or shame another individual seeking to gain attention. Then, you are a cyber bully and need to get some help.

Dare to be the person you were designed to be.

Deadlines give us the sense that we are really on our way and that we will achieve the goal – soon!

Dedicate each day to living relaxed and worry-free. Consciously open your heart to the flow of Creation and Creation's energy. By doing so you have the power to create each day, one day at a time.

Devote yourself to reading.

Deep down we all know that freedom is a choice, yet so many of us don’t feel that truth.

Discipline is the thing that makes you do what you might not want to, but you do it anyway because it's what you have to do in order to get what you want or desire.

Discipline yourself before you discipline others.

Disentangle yourself from anything that will not promote your progress.

Disrupting yourself is critical to avoiding stagnation, being overtaken by low-end entrants (i.e., younger, smarter, faster workers), and fast-tracking your personal and career growth.

Distance yourself from people who: 1. Disrespect you 2. Mistreat others 3. Are abusive 4. Lie to you 5. Are negative 6. Have no goals 7. Use you 8. Put you down

Determination knows that you can do what it takes, even if that is hard or frightening, in order to achieve the goal you seek.

Do not allow your thoughts of what was to steal what can be.

Do not stop pursuing your dreams in the midst of all the difficult situations you find yourself to be in. Instead, set your goals in faith.

Don't argue with a smart person. He won't drag you up to his level.

Divorce = Rebirth: forget the past, replan your life, improve your appearance & REJUVENATE!

Don't base your decision on the opinions of those who don't want to see you grow.

Don’t be afraid to have goals and dreams. Even in the face of haters and those who do not believe in you, don’t stop dreaming.

Don’t believe it when people tell you that you will never accomplish anything great in life, or that you’re ordinary or should just stay the same as everybody else. Don’t let them define you, your life or your future. Don’t let society or people restrict or blind you with their definitions of what’s beautiful and what’s not, and what’s successful and what’s not, follow your heart.

Don’t be the person who has an overflowing cup of knowledge but an inactive state of action. That serves no-one, that serves no purpose.

Divorce is the start point for a brand new life. Don't lose the chance to redesign it upon your dreams!

Don't quit because it's hard. Quit because it's not hard enough

Don't look for false friends. Let true friends find you.

Don’t surrender to the pain. Know that it’s only temporary and that perseverance is the key to freedom.