"Personal Growth Quotes"



"Two things always to be remembered: 1. Don't make decisions when you are angry 2. Never make commitments when you are happy."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Prachi M. --- India



"Anger is actually the main cause of all disease. One should know how to control it, otherwise life will be miserable."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Mohd Ashraff --- Malaysia



"An idea not coupled by action, will never get bigger than the brain cells it occupies."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Mashudu Colbert --- South Africa





"You're here for a good time not a long time; you spend a long time dead."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by D. Townend --- Monte-Carlo, Monaco
After 2 tumors when I was 19 & 21, I realized I needed to live life to the max so I use this saying as a reminder to me that life is short!



"Changing the face can change nothing. But facing the change can change everything. Don't complain about others; change yourself if you want peace."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Pranshu Sharma --- India



"I've spent most my life in pain not knowing what was going to happen next - just that I was going to keep trying no matter what."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Alicia P. --- Missouri



"I was able to overcome the obstacles in the past with a smile on my face, why not in the future too?"
Written in 2009 by Hasini Janardhan --- India



"Love is not a figment of our imagination, rather it's a figment of our reality that we choose to suppress. Don't hide it; show it!"
Written in 2009 by Michael Ogah --- Nigeria
I was finding it hard to love my dad again. Over the years I pretended to love him while I kept this bitterness towards him because I felt that the reason for my inferiority was the upbringing he gave me without my mum. But now, I have learnt to forgive and life is sweet.



"Life teaches all lessons, be careful. When dealing with others, behave in a manner you would like others to behave with you."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by J.S. Murli --- India
I am impressed and follow the same.



"I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned."
Carol Burnett



"Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots."
Frank A. Clark



"The best protection any woman can have ... is courage."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton



"There comes a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better, or for worse as his portion."
Ralph Waldo Emerson --- Submitted by Vukosi T. --- South Africa



"Avoid peer pressure when you are tense. Avoid decision-making when you are under peer pressure."
Written in 2009 by Vijayakumar --- India



"If your problem has a solution solve it. If it doesn't, why worry about it?"
Written in 2009 by Yadira Quinones --- New Jersey



"Confidence is elusive only to those that look for it; for confidence is not found, it's made."
Written in 2008 by Gerard Chambers --- Florida



"The absence of fear is love."
Written in 2009 by Chris Murphy --- England



"Hatred cannot help us proceed any further in life. Forgive and forget is a power of love that will help us to start a new chapter in life and go further."
Written in 2009 by Evelyn Ha --- Australia



"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Norma R. --- United Kingdom
This helped me when I had some personal problems.



"Life is full of surprises and you never know what you're going to get until you get it; always expect the unexpected."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Reetika Jain --- India
We always have some expectations about our lives but when they are not fulfilled we tend to get upset. Perhaps it's better to expect the unexpected.



"A true friend will never keep you away from your dreams; they will encourage you instead of discouraging you. They will be honest & tell you the truth, no matter what the consequences are. They want you to be happy, they want to hear your heart sing."
Copyright © 2009 Lucy M. Garcia



"Imagine a world where no one was offended or hurt by words. As long as you know your truth, they cannot bring you down."
Copyright © 2009 Leanne Carmichael



"There is no such thing as bad people, just bad intentions."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Stella Perez --- Mexico
I believe that there is some good in every one. Sometimes we just do bad things.



"In life, we all go through hard times. It's then we realize who our true friends are because they have stood by us through it all. These are the people that we want to stand with us forever."
Copyright © 2009 Renee Scalfani
This I write for someone who recently dealt with a life changing diagnosis only to see the one person he wanted by his side not even care. I want him to know that we all have been disappointed by a loved one in life but life goes on.



"Today I sit and wonder what will tomorrow bring, what my attitude will be toward it, how my actions will affect the outcome? I tell myself, today, not to worry about tomorrow. Fix what you can today and tomorrow will already have a better outcome."
Written in 2009 by Lucy M. Garcia --- Georgia



"Never take compliments to your head and never take criticism to your heart. This is the sure way to get success and still remain down to earth."
Written in 2009 by Nisha Grace --- India
I always believe and follow these lines; so simple, so true and still so effective:)



"No one ever won a chess match by making only forward moves. Sometimes you have to move backward to take a better step forward. The same is true for Life."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Mukesh Sharma --- India