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“Change is inevitable but personal growth is a choice.”

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Author:Bob Proctor

“Every prayer - every thought, every statement, every feeling - is creative.”

Feelings Prayer Creative Personal Growth Statements

Book:The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God.”

People Two Perfect Relationship Institutions Personal Growth Lips Imperfect Vow

Book:Purpose and Power of Love and Marriage

Source: Purpose and Power of Love and Marriage

“Purpose is when you know and understand what you were born to accomplish. Vision is when you see it in your mind and begin to imagine it”

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Book:Keys for Vision

Source: Keys for Vision

“A goal is just an awesome way to force growth on yourself.”

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Author:Deena Kastor

“In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists or even a coherent philosophy or dogma, it is difficult to define or measure the unorganized New Age movement. But in every major U.S. and European city, thousands who seek insight and personal growth cluster around a metaphysical bookstore, a spiritual teacher, or an education center.”

“Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.”

“Who does not grow, declines.”

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Author:Hillel the Elder

“There might be some credit in being jolly.”

Might Growth Personal Growth Credit Jolly

Book:The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens: 20 Illustrated Classics in One Volume: Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield…

Source: The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens: 20 Illustrated Classics in One Volume: Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield…

“Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been made to believe from you childhood, but reason truth out, and after you have analyzed it, then if you find it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it and help others live up to it.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.”

Knows Growth Personal Growth

Author:Jerry Garcia

“Gratitude connects us to others and feeling gratitude allows us to be our best selves. When we are truly grateful, we can count on living the life we want”

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Author:M. J. Ryan

“Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother”

Inspirational Growth Positive Laughter Personal Growth Shock Automobile Potholes Shock Absorber

Book:Joy Breaks: 90 Devotions to Celebrate, Simplify, and Add Laughter to Your Life

Source: Joy Breaks: 90 Devotions to Celebrate, Simplify, and Add Laughter to Your Life

“Living on purpose requires us to find what we love fiercely, give it all we've got and then pass it on, as if it were a torch, to those who follow”

Ifs Inspirational Giving Purpose Growth Positive Personal Growth Living On Torches

Book:I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose

Source: I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose

“What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them”

Inspirational Children Important Growth Positive Our Children Personal Growth Your Children

Author:Denis Waitley

“The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness”

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Author:Lionel Barrymore

“Lack and limitation can only exist when we make room for them in our mind”

Inspirational Mind Growth Rooms Positive Personal Growth Limitation

Author:Bob Proctor

“Are you a thermometer or a thermostat? A thermometer only reflects the temperature of its environment, adjusting to the situation. But a thermostat initiates action to change the temperature in its environment”

Inspirational Action Growth Situation Environment Positive Personal Growth Temperature Initiate Adjusting Thermometers

Author:Nido R Qubein

“We can cross the rivers of doubt and discouragement on the bridge of faith even before we get to them”

Inspirational Growth Courage Doubt Positive Rivers Crosses Personal Growth Bridges Discouragement

Author:Sterling W Sill

“Change comes more from managing the journey than from announcing the destination”

Inspirational Growth Journey Positive Personal Growth Destination Announcing

Author:William Bridges

“Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you”

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Author:Jim Rohn

“Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource”

Inspirational Growth Positive Resources Personal Growth Improvement Personal Improvement

Book:Effective Leadership

Source: Effective Leadership

“Pain and adversity are powerful vehicles to promote personal growth. Nothing helps you learn, grow, and evolve more quickly. Nothing offers you as big an opportunity to reclaim more of your authentic power as a person.”

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Author:Richard Bach

“Mediocrity is not worth the trip.”

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Author:Sergio Marchionne

“Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.”

Design Like You Built Entrepreneur Personal Growth

Author:Jay-Z

“When you go through difficult times...recognize that God is refining you, knocking off some of your rough edges.”

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Author:Joel Osteen

“It takes true strength of character to redefine your limits by pushing past them.”

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Author:Katherine Reutter

“Who I've been is not as important as who I'm becoming.”

Important Growth Becoming Personal Growth

Author:Gary L. Francione

“The reason I don't retire is that I learn something new every day. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body. It's about expanding, constantly pushing yourself.”

Reason Body Growth Brain Personal Growth Pushing Something New Retiring Expanding Push Yourself

Author:Clint Eastwood

“The question is not 'Can you make a difference?' You already do make a difference. It's just a matter of what kind of difference you want to make during your life on this planet.”

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Author:Julia Hill

“It's a simple solution. You change one thing, and suddenly you've changed everything.”

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Author:Rebecca Onie

“You don't get character because you're successful; you build character because of the hardships you face.”

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Author:Herman Edwards

“If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.”

Ifs Growth Journey Honest Personal Growth Finding Yourself

Author:Martin Sheen

“The truth can set us free, but only if we're always in the process of discovering it.”

Ifs Process Growth Personal Growth Discovering

Author:Irwin Kula

“God loves me just as I am today. He knows all my junk....and lack of faith, and he loves me anyway. However, he loves me too much to leave me the way I am.”

Knows Way Today Growth Too Much Personal Growth God Love Leaving Me Junk Lack Of Faith God Loves Me

Author:Michelle Akers

“Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no one else is talking to.”

People Book Reading Growth Talking Personal Growth Conferences Attending

Book:My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley

Source: My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley

“Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.”

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Author:Max Cleland

“When we are weak, we can still be strong. When we're under the greatest stress and facing the greatest challenges, it may be the best day of our lives, for God is working to make us into the people he wants us to be.”

People Want May Stills Strong Growth Challenges Our Lives Weak Stress Personal Growth Being The Best Want U

Author:Casey Treat

“Even when you are striving, stumbling and struggling, it's exhilarating if you sense you are growing.”

Ifs Growth Struggle Growing Personal Growth Strive Exhilarating Stumbling

Book:What Will I Do with the Rest of My Life?: A Woman's Guide to Discovering Peace, Power, and Purpose After 40

Source: What Will I Do with the Rest of My Life?: A Woman's Guide to Discovering Peace, Power, and Purpose After 40

“Sometimes mistakes are the best thing that can happen, because they might lift you...out of your complacency, and open your mind up to a whole other area that you wouldn't have gone to intentionally.”

Mind Sometimes Whole Might Happens Growth Mistake Gone Areas Personal Growth Lifts Best Things Complacency

Author:Bobby McFerrin

“Surrender comes when you no longer ask, 'Why is this happening to me?'”

Asks Growth Happenings Personal Growth Surrender

Book:Stillness Speaks

Source: Stillness Speaks

“We talk about defining moments, but I think nothing can define you. They're all refining moments. You're constantly refining yourself and refining your life.”

Thinking Life Moments Growth Personal Growth Defining Define You Refining Defining Moments

Author:Sheryl Crow

“I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.”

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Author:Sidney Poitier

“The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us.”

Persons Growth Can Do Personal Growth Breathing Quests

Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“The difference between charity and philanthropy is the distance of the soul... To be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to give one's own heart.”

Giving Heart Soul Growth Differences Distance Personal Growth Charity Philanthropy Charitable Philanthropic

Author:Maya Angelou

“Look at each day as a chance to invest life into life. A chance to share your experience and deposit it into someone else's conscience. Each day is a chance to work miracles in the lives of others.”

Looks Growth Chance Share Conscience Miracle Personal Growth Each Day Lives Of Others Deposits

Author:Jim Rohn

“Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.”

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Author:Myles Munroe

“The definition of success is getting many of the things money can buy and all the things money can't buy.”

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Author:Zig Ziglar

“The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.”

“Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self-actualisation.”

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Author:Carl Jung