35 Greatest Inspirational Self Improvement Quotes To Inspire You

The challenges or shit storms we face allows us to grow and learn. To conquer our fears and improve our lives. These quotes for self improvement will motivate you to invest in your personal growth. And keep you motivated through tough times.

When you are going through hard times, remember life happens for you, not to you.

If you are not partaking in regular personal development to learn and grow, how can you become your highest self?

So what is self improvement? It is the act or process of improving oneself by one’s own actions. (source)

Want to improve your life? Then take small steps each day towards your goals. Over time, the slight changes will have a compound effect.

Here are 35 quotes to inspire continuous self improvement, to keep you motivated.

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Quotes for Self-improvement

• You are essentially who you create yourself to be, and all that occurs in your life results from your own making. ― Stephen Richards

• He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. ― Confucius

• In this world you’re either growing or you’re dying, so get in motion and grow. — Lou Holtz

• It’s not what you do once in a while that takes your life to the next level, it’s what you do consistently. — Terri Savelle Foy

• Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit, you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

• 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

• Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going. — Chantal Sutherland

• Do you surround yourself with ankers or engines? In life, there are engines who propel us forward, believe in us, and are supportive. Then there are ankers who weigh us down. Which one are you? — Kathy Ireland

• No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself. ― Madonna

• I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it. — Maya Angelou

• The average person tip toes through life hoping to make it safely to death. — Unknown

Quotes on Personal Development to Help You Grow

• Of course, motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do regularly. — Zig Ziglar

• If there is no struggle, there is no progress. — Fredrick Douglass

• Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. ― Jim Rohn

• Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become. — Eli Cohen

• Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. — Viktor Frankl

• There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. — Paulo Coelho

• You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak. ― George Clooney

• Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually, it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off. — Kevin Hart

• As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves. ― Mahatma Gandhi

• Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. — Steve Jobs

• I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint—and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. — Oprah Winfrey

• I am a sponge, I want to know everything. — Thomas Eddison.

• Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself. ― Denis Waitley

• We cannot become what we need to be by remaining the same. — Max De Pree

• Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners – language, behavior, and actions – are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do. — Frances Hesselbein

Inspirational Quotes About Change

• Your life does not get better by chance it gets better by change. — Jim Rohn

• Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. — George Bernard Shaw

• There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. ― Ernest Hemingway

• I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you’re good at. — Louis C.K.

• The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in comfort and convenience, but where he stands at the time of challenges. — Martin Luther King Jr.

• Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ― William Faulkner

• Every moment of one’s existence, one is growing into more or retreating into less. ―Norman Mailer

• If you want to have more, you have to become more, success is not something you pursue. What you pursue will elude you. — 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

• Change equals self-improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before. ― Pat Summitt

• Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. ―Morihei Ueshiba

• Your calling is meant for you, not everyone else. Everybody may not get it, and that’s okay. It’s not for them. They weren’t designed for this. You were. God didn’t place it in their heart. He placed it in yours. If we left the plans and purposes of our life in the hands of people, our entire life would be conformed to what people want to see instead of who God made us to be, and that’s just no way to live. – Britney Moses

Hope you loved these 35 quotes for self improvement to motivate you to invest in yourself.

We must have a growth mindset to improve and to become the highest version of ourselves. Because our lives only change with the improvements we make, not by complaining.

It’s often in the toughest times we experience growth and wisdom to know what we are truly capable of.

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