"Personal Growth Quotes"



"I know I can't do everything, but I can do everything I can... to do something."
Steev Lee --- Submitted by Leslie C. --- Michigan



"Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity."
Joseph Sugarman



"Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objective in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation."
Napoleon Hill



"Simplicity is the mother to all success."
Copyright © 2003 Clinton Vermaak



"Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control."
Booker T. Washington



"Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit."
Plato



"Be who you are, and proud you will be."
Copyright © 2003 Shera Yagues
This quote is simple. If you are who you truly are and not pretend to be someone or something else, you will in turn be proud to be yourself.



"Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience."
Eddie Rickenbacker



"You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is.It's how we use it that makes things possible."
Henry Ford



"He waits for luck to fall his way, but this way no such luck will fall. Luck falls but to those who seek luck's way."
Written in 2003 by S.B. --- Victoria, Australia



"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself."
Andre Gide



"Becoming rich, becoming happy or any life achievement is a product of continuous effort. So start today and you will achieve one day."
Copyright © 2003 Jagannathan Arockiam
According to 'The Millionaires Mind', a book by Thomas J. Stanley, on an average it takes 25 years to save a million. But everyone wants to be rich within a year or two. Also happiness is a result of cultivation of mind over time. Some people try for some time and give up. I think to really achieve big things we have to plan, practice and wait patiently for longer time.



"Men with sight see things as they are.
The man with insight sees things as they could be."
Copyright © 2003 Joseph P. Martino



"The first step in handling anything is gaining the ability to face it."
L. Ron Hubbard



"I don't have to be what nobody else wants me to be and I am not afraid to be what I want to be."
Muhammad Ali --- Submitted by Jayasankar Peethambaran --- Kerala, India



"The highest reward for one's toil is not what one gets for it, but what one becomes by it."
John Ruskin



"The sincerest satisfactions in life come in doing not dodging duty; in meeting and solving problems, in facing facts, in being a dependable person."
Richard L. Evans



"I studied the lives of great men and women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work."
Harry S. Truman



"I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win--if you don't you won't."
Bruce Jenner



"Success and failure are usually not the result of a single event. Failure is the result of neglecting to make the call...to go the extra mile...to say, "I love you." In the same way that failure follows this string of small decisions, success comes from taking the initiative and following up...persisting...eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?"
Anthony Robbins



"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you,and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you."
Brian Tracy



"I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say 'We'll just have to see'."
Dick Fosbury



"Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks on great and honorable courses with a sure hope of trust in itself."
Cicero



"It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen."
Claude M. Bristol



The Challenge to Success Conversion Equation is:
S=C+V+E+T
S=Success
C= Challenge
V=Vision
E=Exceptional Effort
T=Time
Copyright © 2003 Sita Parbu



"The greatest achievements are won through perseverance."
Written in 2003 by Arundhathi E. --- Andhra Pradesh, India



"When problems surface, insights disappear; when insights surface, problems disappear. Problems and insights rarely make a joint appearance."
Gerhard Gschwandtner