10 Self-Development Quotes for Personal Growth

HeyPeers!
2 min readJul 8, 2021

It’s never too late to start on the journey of personal growth and development. Here are ten quotes from influential authors, business professionals, and philosophers that are sure to resonate with you.

  1. “We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” — Oprah Winfrey
  2. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” — Maya Angelou
  3. “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
  4. “You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” — Shonda Rhimes
  5. “You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” — Diane von Furstenberg
  6. “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experiences that reveals the human spirit.” — E.E. Cummings
  7. “With self-discipline most anything is possible.” — Theodore Roosevelt
  8. “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you…never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe
  9. “One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.” — Abraham Maslow
  10. “Don’t go through life, grow through life.” — Eric Butterworth

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