Short Quotes About Personal Growth
For you and your direct reports, your professional development is critical to your success. The quotes in this article are selected to inspire you to challenge your own status quo and to chart your path for growth and development.
Consider how the wisdom from these inspirational quotes for personal development can help you develop yourself and, if you have them, your direct reports.
Enjoy!
“Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us – and those around us – more effectively. Look for the learning.” — Louisa May Alcott
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle
“Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.” — Warren Bennis
“What we think, we become.” – Buddha
“Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.” – Thomas Carlyle
“All growth depends on activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.” — President Calvin Coolidge
“Learning never exhausts the mind.” — Leonardo Da Vinci
“Treat yourself as you are, and you will remain as you are. Treat yourself as you could be, and you will become what you should be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” — Max De Pree
“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” — William Faulkner
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, are no longer in harmony with his ways.” — Niccolò Machiavelli
“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.” – Saint Jerome
“No man was ever wise by chance” — Seneca
“To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.” – William Shakespeare
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” — Leo Tolstoy
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