Personal development is the process of achieving and expanding your full potential.

Ive created a collection of some of the most empowering personal development quotes of all time.

The gangs all here Buddha, Covey, Emerson, Gandhi, Robbins, Ziglar, and more. Its a cornucopia of personal development wisdom at your finger tips.

You are your best investment.

After all, you take you with you wherever you go. Whether you are growing greater at your strengths, reducing your liabilities, or expanding what you are capable of, personal development is a path.

Its a path of personal greatness, and a way to be YOUR best.

What are the key patterns we see when we look across these personal development quotes?

Personal development is a journey, not a destination.

Dream big, develop yourself, unleash your potential, play well with others, play to your strengths, enjoy the process, share your unique gifts with the world, and grow your greatness by testing yourself, expanding yourself, learning and improving.

Ive organized the personal development quotes into some key themes: Character, Effectiveness, Emotional Intelligence, Empowerment, Influence and Impact, Learning and Growth, Productivity, Self-Awareness, Strengths, and Thinking. There are lots of ways to slice and dice it, but I found this set to be particularly effective for both filtering and synthesizing personal development quotes.

One of the best ways to use this collection is to find three quotes you can use that either inspire you or empower you in some new way.

A good criterion for measuring success in life is the number of people you have made happy.

Robert J. Lumsden

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld

Ability may take you to the top, but it takes character to stay there.

William Blake

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Bruce Lee

Be humble always and identify with the common man; even when success and achievements want to make you proud.

Bishop Leonard Umumna

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind dont matter and those who matter dont mind.

Dr. Seuss

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Helen Keller

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold H. Niebuhr

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

John D. Rockefeller

I dont have to be what nobody else wants me to be and I am not afraid to be what I want to be.

Muhammad Ali

I praise loudly; I blame softly.

Queen Catherine II

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 will speak ill of no one and speak all the good I know of everybody.

Andrew Jackson

Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.

Zig Ziglar

Ive never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

Paul Harvey

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Bruce Lee

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.

Jim Rohn

Let this be the criteria by which you measure all things: Is this an act of love?

Unknown

Optimists are right. So are pessimists. Its up to you to choose which you will be.

Harvey Mackay

People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if youre fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Jimmy Johnson

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

William Arthur Ward

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Confucius

The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Socrates

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

Confucius

We are what we frequently do.

Aristotle

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

John Dryden

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Confucius

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.

Bruce Lee

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Bruce Lee

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Bruce Lee

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Benjamin Franklin

Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and good things will be yours.

Swedish Proverb

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be. What is once well done, is well done forever.

Henry David Thoreau

Forget yourself and start to work.

Gordon B. Hinckley

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

Napoleon Hill

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Bessie Anderson Stanley

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength, but through persistence.

Buddha

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