Written by SAORI CATERINA | April 10, 2023
If you’re feeling stuck and uninspired, you’re in the right place.
In today’s blogpost, I will share with you my 29 favorite self growth quotes and concepts from some of the most notorious authors, philosophers, and coaches that will help you to trigger the transformational energy within you and change your life.
To make sure you get the most out of these amazing quotes, I divided them into 3 categories:
I hope that these self growth quotes will feed your inspiration and bring tons of positive + transformational change in your life ✨
Transformation, Change & Success
- “For things to change, you need to change” – Jim Rohn
- “Clarity comes from engagement, not thought” – Marie Forleo, Everything is Figureoutable
- “It’s not your fault if you’re fucked up, but it’s your fault if you stay fucked up” – Jen Sincero, You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
- “Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years because you are afraid to be alive and to take the risk of expressing what you are. Expressing what you are is taking action. You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results and no reward.” ― Don Miquel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
- “Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.” – Napoleon Hill, Outwitting the Devil
- “Long term, your beliefs determine your destiny” – Marie Forleo, Everything is Figureoutable
- “Transformation comes from either inspiration or desperation” – Unknown
- “Drifting is the most common cause of failure in every walk of life.” – Napoleon Hill, Outwitting the Devil
- To feel better, you need to change your state. And to do that, you need to increase your energy, which you create by moving your body. Whenever you feel a negative emotion arising within you, kill it immediately before it takes over you, move your body. – Tony Robbins
- “Combining your Passion with your Talent and then seeking the right Association and taking the right Action are very important components for Success . . . but it is when you combine all those components with a strong Faith in yourself and your mission that you truly have Your Personal Success Equation” – Napoleon Hill, Outwitting the Devil
- “You know, I can’t always force myself to choose the best feelings but it’s always in my power to choose things that make me feel better.” – Shannon Boodram, The Game of Desire: 5 Surprising Secrets to Dating with Dominance – and Getting What You Want
- It is during periods of great stress that we find our will and our inner strength. – Napoleon Hill, Outwitting the Devil
- “The major key to a better future is you” – Jim Rohn
- “To achieve your goals in life, I realized, it matters less how smart you are, how much innate talent you’re born with, or even, most eye opening to me, where you came from and how much you started out with. Sure all these are important, but they mean little if you don’t understand one thing: You can’t get there alone. In fact, you can’t get very far at all.” – Keith Ferrazzi, Never Eat Alone
- “Search accurately into the lives of men and women who achieve enduring success and you will find, without exception, that their success has been in exact proportion to the extent that they surmounted failure.” – Napoleon Hill, Outwitting the Devil
- “Be definite in everything you do and never leave unfinished thoughts in the mind. Form the habit of reaching definite decisions on all subjects.” – Napoleon Hill, Outwitting the Devil
- “Failure is just an event. It is not a characteristic. People can’t be failures” – Marie Forleo, Everything is Figureoutable
- “What you choose to focus on becomes your reality.”
- ― Jen Sincero, You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
(Self-)love, friends, and relationships
- “Whatever you tell others, is what the brain tells you. Your subconscious does not recognize difference of what you tell others and yourself.” – Kathrin Zenkina, Manifestation Babe
- “If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us”. – Hermann Hesse
- “Friendship is a choice, every other relation we have isn’t.” – Trevor Noah, Jay Shetty Podcast
- “I think as people what we do is we break ourselves into parts, and whenever we meet people we give them a part of ourselves and to some people we give more than we give others, but we give everyone a different part of ourselves. No one in your life has the same path that another person has. They may seem similar, but they’re not. Your mother and father hold different parts of you. Your uncles, your cousins, your brothers, sisters, your friends… whoever it is, it will hold the different parts of you and the same way Voldemort could use that to come back to life, I feel like we can use that to come back to life. – Trevor Noah, Jay Shetty Podcast
- “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
- “I really, genuinely believe that if you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they will prove you right”
- “When one can think, whenever I am with this person, I can behave freely, one can really feel love. One can be in a calm and quite natural state, without having feelings of inferiority or being beset with the need to flaunt one’s supriority.” – Fumitake Koga & Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Disliked
- “In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. If someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly.” ― Don Miquel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Personal Freedom
- Someone disliking you can be a sign of personal freedom. If everybody likes you, you’re proabably adapting your behavior so that each and every person likes you. Therefore, you’re restraining who you truly are. – Fumitake Koga & Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Disliked
- “Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking” ― H. Jackson Brown Jr.
I hope that you enjoyed my favorite self growth quotes and that they’ve inspired you to start your transformation journey!
What other great self growth quotes do you know? I am looking forward to hearing from you in the comments ✨
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