How Personal Development Quotes Changed My Life

The personal development industry is huge. Like ten billion dollars in 2016 huge. I doubt there is a person out there who hasn’t heard of it. The importance of personal development can’t be stressed enough in today’s stressful and chaotic world. It is what separates the men from the boys in the business world. (And the women from the girls) People who actively work towards their own personal development will achieve more success and go much further in life than those who choose to stay stuck where they are.

It is what separates the men from the boys in the business world.

When I started my journey in 2014, I was seriously frazzled and just tired of life in general. Nothing seemed to be going the way that I thought that it should. I felt like the world owed me something, but I had no way to collect. There wasn’t an element of my life that wasn’t being affected by my miserable mindset, right down to my marriage and parenting. I knew something had to change if I was ever going to truly enjoy life again and give my children the life they deserved.

I was seriously frazzled and just tired of life in general.

I didn’t have much money to hire coaches or go out and buy books, so I had to get creative and use all the free resources I could find. I watched YouTube videos, joined Facebook groups and read copious amounts of articles on the internet.

Quotes played a really big part in my journey. When I first started to journal, I would start by choosing one quote for the day and then writing about what it meant to me, any thoughts or emotions that it evoked and how I felt that it could affect change in my life. I did this every morning for 30 days, and let me tell you this, I felt like an entirely different person after just one month of “quote journaling”.

Quotes played a really big part in my journey.

Give it a try for even just a week and see how you feel! The entries don’t need to be long ones, just choose a quote and spend ten minutes or so writing. I suggest doing it first thing in the morning so you can start your day off positively and keep those wonderfully creative juices flowing right through your entire day.

For more ways to inject positivity into your day, check out this article that I recently wrote.

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

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. — Richard Branson

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make — Jane Goodall

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case, you fail by default — J.K. Rowling

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Mark Twain

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential…these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. — Confucius

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. — Les Brown

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

Be the change you want to see in the world. — Gandhi

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. — Henry David Thoreau

Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end. — Robin Sharma

Set a goal so big that you can’t achieve it until you grow into the person who can. — Zig Ziglar

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. If you want to reach your goals and fulfill your potential, become intentional about your personal growth. It will change your life. — Jim Rohn

Thank you for taking the time to read this article. I am hoping that I was able to provide you with a little insight into my personal development journey, how quotes were able to help me and how you can also use them to further you along the life path that you are strolling down.

If you have any other ways that you have used quotes to help you with your personal development, or a favorite quote that I didn’t add to this article, I would love it if you leave me a response below.