We all hear stories about successful people. It inspires us like nothing else ever would. Stories of how people who had nothing built fortunes (millions and billions of dollars). But do we realise somewhere we fail to recognise that it takes a lot of relentless efforts and focus on personal development to reach that level.
Experts suggest that personal development takes you a long way in your career path both personally and professionally. It takes you to a different level. We often spend a ton of time doing things that add little or no value to our lives. Our time is limited so why not spend some time on our self improvement which can translate into benefits far better than the others. Striking a right balance is important not matter what you do, be it fun, leisure or work. Let’s read these self improvement quotes by great leaders and famous personalities to know its importance.
We have carefully compiled the best ever inspirational self improvement and personal development quotes by great leaders.
1. “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor E Frankl
2. “Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.” – Jim Rohn
3. “Investment in knowledge pays the best interest” – Benjamin Franklin
4. “Formal education can make you a living but self education can make you a fortune” – Jim John
5. “If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.” – Thomas A Edison
6.“If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.” – Jim Rohn
7. “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.” – Eckhart Tolle
8. – “Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.” – Seneca
9. “A man’s true delight is to do the things he was made for.” – Marcus Aurelius
11. “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” – Lao Tzu
12. “There is one single thread binding my way together…the way of the Master consists in doing one’s best…that is all.” – Confucius
13. “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” – Jim Rohn (One of the the best personal development quotes)
14. “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. “The top players in every field think differently when all the marbles are on the line. Great performers focus on what they are doing, and nothing else…They let it happen, let it go. They couldn’t care less about the results.” – John Eliot
15. “What holds most people back isn’t the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves. You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.” – Russell Simmons
16.“But until a person can say deeply and honestly, “I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,” that person cannot say, “I choose otherwise.” – Stephen R. Covey
17. “The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning “heart.” Thus just as one’s heart, by pumping blood to one’s arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.” – Rollo May
18. “You have to begin to tell the story of your life as you now want it to be and discontinue the tales of how it has been or of how it is.” – Esther & Jerry Hicks
19. “In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels” – Daniel Goleman
20. “Don’t Take Anything Personally. Nothings others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.” – Don Miguel Ruiz
21. “We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.” – Epictetus
22. “We all have something that we are meant to do. Your genius will shine through, and happiness will fill your life, the instant you discover your higher purpose you will then direct all your energies towards it.” – Robin Sharma
23. “So what is the difference between “power thinking” and “positive” thinking? The distinction is slight but profound. To me, people use positive thinking to pretend that everything is rosy, when they really believe that it’s not. With power thinking, we understand that everything is neutral, that nothing has meaning except for the meaning we give it, and that we are going to make up a story and give something it’s meaning.” – T Harv Eker
24. “What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny.” – Anaïs Nin
25.“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” – André Gide (Personal Development Quotes)
26. “We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before “arriving.” – Napoleon Hill
27. “You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.” – Stephen Richards
28. – “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho
29. “Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.” – Zig Ziglar
30. “As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.” – James Allen
31. “Star performers start with a well-defined and concrete “impossible” goal they care deeply about and then they build a through-line that clearly connects here with there.” – Robert K Cooper
32. “Income seldom exceeds personal development.” ― Jim Rohn
33. “Every moment of one’s existence, one is growing into more or retreating into less.” ― Norman Mailer
34. “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” – Jim Rohn
35. “You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.” ― Henry David Thoreau
36. “Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.” ― Morihei Ueshiba
37 “Personal development is a major time-saver. The better you become, the less time it takes you to achieve your goals.” ― Brian Tracy
38 “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
39. “Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.” ― B. R. Ambedkar
40. “Change equals self-improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.” ― Pat Summitt
41. “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” ―Ernest Hemingway
42. “Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.” ― John C. Maxwell
43. “Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time and energy needed to develop yourself.” ― Denis Waitley
44. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” ― Stephen Covey
45. “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
46. “Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. It will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.” ―Robin Sharma
47. “In this world you’re either growing or you’re dying, so get in motion and grow.” ―Lou Holtz
48. “A man’s true delight is to do the things he was made for.” – Marcus Aurelius
49. “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change”. – Wayne Dyer
50. “The only way to make sense of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance. – Alan Watts
Personal Development Quotes By Great Leaders and Authors
“Don’t Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering. – Don Miguel Ruiz
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. – Eckhart Tolle
“Be the change you want to see in this world. – Mahatma Gandhi
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. – Lao Tzu
“Be the change you want to see in this world.” – Mahatma Gandhi (Personal Development Quotes)
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
“You have to begin to tell the story of your life as you now want it to be and discontinue the tales of how it has been or of how it is. – Esther & Jerry Hicks
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
“Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.” – Jim Rohn
“Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.” – Jim Rohn
“Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.” – Jim Rohn
“The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.” – Jim Rohn
“You cannot make progress without making decisions.” – Jim Rohn
“No one else “makes us angry.” We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude.” – Jim Rohn
“If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.” – Jim Rohn
“A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.” – Jim Rohn
We all have something that we are meant to do. Your genius will shine through, and happiness will fill your life, the instant you discover your higher purpose you will then direct all your energies towards it. ~ Robin Sharma