This post contains some of the best work on yourself quotes.
Work On Yourself Quotes
1. “A barrier is a limitation only when you perceive it as one.” – Stephen Richards
2. “A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.” — Dale Carnegie
3. “A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.” – James Allen
4. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
5. “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” ― Les Brown
6. “All great changes are preceded by chaos.” – Deepak Chopra
7. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” – Unknown
8. “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
9. “Any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.” — Booker T. Washington
10. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” ― Henry Ford
11. “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
12. “At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.” ― Chuck Palahniuk
13. “Be addicted to bettering yourself.” – Unknown
14. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” ― Stephen Covey
15. “Be patient with yourself. You are growing stronger every day. The weight of the world will become lighter…and you will begin to shine brighter. Don’t give up.” ― Robert Tew
16. “Be so busy working to reach your goals that you don’t have the time to hate on someone else who is trying to reach theirs.” – CT Fletcher
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17. “Be so committed to your growth that it encourages the ones around you to grow as well. Be so committed to your growth that it sacres away ones that are tempted to drop you down to their level.” ― Unknown
18. “Be the type of person you want to meet.” ― Tom McCallum
19. “Because sometimes the most beautiful things are born out of what deeply hurts, and I’ve gone through enough nights not knowing who I am. Not knowing what it means to be alive. But I’m working on it. I’m working on myself every day. Inside and out. I’m working on all my faults and I’m trying to reach for the moon. I’m trying to be my own star and I’m trying to light my own sky. That’s all.” – R.M. Drake
20. “Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
21. “Beginning today, set an intention and a relentless focus on living your life as the greatest person you can be, in all situations.” – Brendon Burchard
22. “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” — Viktor Frankl
23. “By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better.” ― Laverne Cox
24. “By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.” ― Benjamin Franklin
25. “Change and growth can be tough. But nothing is as tough as staying stuck in the same place where you aren’t meant to be.” – Lewis Howes
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26. “Change equals self-improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.” – Pat Summitt
27. “Change is your friend not your foe; change is a brilliant opportunity to grow.” – Simon T. Bailey
28. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama
29. “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
30. “Choose progress over perfection.” ― Unknown
31. “Commit yourself to constant improvement. Commit yourself to quality. Be persistent, persistent, persistent…and have a grateful heart!” ― H. Jackson Brown Jr.
32. “Day by day elevate yourself to a breathtaking level by working on your passions.” – Hiral Nagda
33. “Determine that today you will overcome your self of the day before, tomorrow you will win over those of lesser skill, and later you will win over those of greater skill.” ― Miyamoto Musashi
34. “Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” ― Sean Patrick Flanery
35. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” ― Maya Angelou
36. “Do your best, and be a little better than you are.” — Gordon B. Hinckley
37. “Don’t compare yourself to others. Compare yourself to the person from yesterday.” ― Jordan Peterson
38. “Don’t downgrade your dream just to fit your reality. Upgrade your conviction to match your destiny.” ― Stuart Scott
39. “Don’t get upset by the results you didn’t get with the work you didn’t do.” – Inky Johnson
40. “Don’t go through life, grow through life.” ― Eric Butterworth
41. “Don’t let anyone control your path. You are stronger than you think, and you are the charioteer of your life, always remember that. ” ― Unknown
42. “Don’t waste my time by making me judge other people. I am busy improving myself, and I have no time to criticize others.” ― Unknown
43. “Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.” — Marie Curie
44. “Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.” – Bob Goff
45. “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.” ― Socrates
46. “Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you want to become.” – James Clear
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47. “Every day of our lives, we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.” – Mignon McLaughlin
48. “Every moment of one’s existence, one is growing into more or retreating into less.” ― Norman Mailer
49. “Every morning starts a new page in your story. Make it a great one today.” ― Doe Zantamata
50. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” ― Babe Ruth
51. “Every success story is a tale of constant adaptation, revision, and change.” – Richard Branson
52. “Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.” – Michael Jordan
53. “Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
54. “Everyone must choose one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.” ― Jim Rohn
55. “Everything is within your power, and your power is within you.” — Janice Trachtman
56. “Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.” ― Brian Tracy
57. “First things first might be a cliche, but it’s a useful one that means prioritizing what matters most to you and believing there is no wrong answer.” ― Stacey Abrams
58. “Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.” ― Bohdi Sanders
59. “Focus on what you are and what you can rather than what others aren’t and can’t. You have to win; they don’t necessarily have to lose for you.” – Alok Mishra
60. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” ― Jim Rohn
61. “From a certain point onward there is longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.” – Franz Kafka
62. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you have imagined.” — Henry David Thoreau
63. “Gratitude, compassion, and kindness are pillars to make you a better person.” — Invajy
64. “Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.” ― Jean Vanier
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65. “Growth is actually contagious, so if you want to reach your goals, you’ve got to get around people who are going in the same direction you want to be going, and you will catch the success.” – Dr. Henry Cloud
66. “Growth is simply learning how to suffer gracefully, elegantly, and not letting your pain completely tear you apart.” – Nikita Gill
67. “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
68. “He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.” ― Confucius
69. “How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?” – Seth Godin
70. “I actually finally let the Light in and then I was able to create all these songs that were inspired by letting the Light in and doing some self-reflection and just kind of working on myself.” – Katy Perry
71. “I am all for changing, even if mistakes are made in the process. Mistakes do not matter.” ― Jiddu Krishnamurti
72. “I am changing but not in a way you’d expect. I am changing how I view myself, I am changing how I talk to myself, I am changing what I allow and who I allow in my life, but most of all… I’m no longer changing myself for others, the pressure to fit in and be anything other than myself. I am creating a revolution in my own self care.” – Tiffany Moule
73. “I am working on learning how to be whole and free within myself, to acknowledge my brokenness, manifest my own happiness, and succeed and fail gracefully.” – Beau Taplin
74. “I am working on myself. My dreams have widened, I want to achieve more and invest in myself.” – Unknown
75. “I believe that the greatest truths of the universe don’t lie outside, in the study of the stars and the planets. They lie deep within us, in the magnificence of our heart, mind, and soul. Until we understand what is within, we can’t understand what is without.” – Anita Moorjani
76. “I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.” – Isabelle Adjani
77. “I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.” – Muhammad Ali Jinnah
78. “I lost trying myself to please everyone else. Now I’m losing everyone while I’m finding myself.” – Unknown
79. “I work on myself daily to be a better person. When I react in a negative way to somebody, I sit back and think about what I did it, so I’m always working on myself, and my music is the same.” – Lizzo
80. “I would like to think that all of my successes in life are really just the fruit of my failures.” ― Yvie Oddly
81. “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” ― Thomas Jefferson
82. “I’m hard on myself, so I’m working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.” – Gwyneth Paltrow
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83. “I’m learning to love myself, it’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done.” – Unknown
84. “I’m working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I’m very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.” – Francis Bacon
85. “I’m working on myself, by myself, for myself.” – Unknown
86. “I’m working to better my life and my family. I have no time to worry about what others think of me.” – Unknown
87. “I’ve got a theory that if you give percent all the time, somehow things will work out in the end.” ― Larry Bird
88. “If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control – myself.” – Stephen Covey
89. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” ― Frederick Douglass
90. “If there is one lesson I’ve learned from failure and success, it’s this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort.” – Kamal Ravikant
91. “If we want to change the world, we change ourselves.” – Jack Ma
92. “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always be where you’ve always been.” — T.D. Jakes
93. “If you are moving forward in your life, If you are progressing personally, professionally, emotionally, spiritually ― you will be happy.” ― Tony Robbins
94. “If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent’s good will.” – Dale Carnegie
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95. “If you can dedicate yourself to asking questions to reveal your potential, you will discover your potential and start to fulfill your mission.” — Sunday Adelaja
96. “If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?” – Miguel Ruiz
97. “If you continue to think the way you’ve always thought, you’ll continue to get what you’ve always got.” – Kevin Trudeau
98. “If you continuously compete with others, you become bitter, but if you continuously compete with yourself, you become better. Choose the second, I got your back.” ― Unknown
99. “If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want.” ― Kevin Ngo
100. “If you look at the people in your circle and you don’t get inspired, you don’t have a circle, you have a cage.” – Nipsey Hussle
101. “If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change.” ― Michael Jackson
102. “If you want to get better, do the things that no one else wants to do. Do the things that no one is even thinking about doing.” – David Goggins
103. “Improve in private. Surprise everyone.” ― Unknown
104. “Improvement begins with I.” ― Arnold H. Glasow
105. “Improvement starts within you and depends on your efforts. So, make the effort.” ― Remez Sasson
106. “In life you either need desperation or inspiration.” – Tony Robbins
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107. “Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.” ― Steve Maraboli
108. “Investing in your own growth and self-development isn’t selfish. It’s self-care.” ― Dr. Eric Weis
109. “It is never too late to be who you might have been.” ― George Eliot
110. “It is not as much about who you used to be as it is about who you choose to be.” ― Sanhita Baruah
111. “It is not the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” — William Shakespeare
112. “It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.” — Shannon L. Alder
113. “It only takes one person to change your life ― you.” ― Ruth Casey
114. “It’s never too late to start working on yourself. Act now. Don’t stop. Enjoy the ride.” – Unknown
115. “It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.” ― Denis Waitley
116. “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” ― Ella Fitzgerald
117. “Keep taking time for yourself until you’re you again.” – Unknown
118. “Leap off the fence of indecision. Get out of the ‘Want to Lane’ and put yourself into the ‘Got to Lane.’” – Gloria Mayfield Banks
119. “Let us cultivate our garden.” ― Voltaire
120. “Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.” — Rick Warren
121. “Life is about change, sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.” – Krisitin Kreuk
122. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw
123. “Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” ― Bernice Johnson Reagon
124. “Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.” – Deborah Day
125. “Look for the small improvements, recognize those successes, and let them be a big deal.” ― Elise Cripe
126. “Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing if you cease not from digging.” — Marcus Aurelius
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127. “Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” – Golda Meir
128. “Make the most of yourself….for that is all there is of you.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
129. “Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.” – Alexis Carrel
130. “Manifesting is a lot like making a cake. The things needed are supplied by you, the mixing is done by your mind and the baking is done in the oven of the universe.” – Stephen Richards
131. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Rohn
132. “My life is constantly under construction. There’s always something to improve.” ― Unknown
133. “Never allow your mind to wander untamed like a wild animal that exists on the basis of survival of the fittest. Tame your mind with a consistent focus on your goals and desires.” ― Stephen Richards
134. “Never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.” – Charles Dickens
135. “Never neglect an opportunity for self-improvement.” — Unknown
136. “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
137. “Notice the difference between being in control and needing control.” – Marilyn Suttle
138. “Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.” – Albert Einstein
139. “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experiences that reveal the human spirit.” ― e.e. Cummings
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140. “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
141. “Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.” – Oprah Winfrey
142. “Only through suffering do you have change and self-improvement.” — Unknown
143. “Pain, pleasure, and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.” ― Frida Kahlo
144. “People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you’re 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
145. “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” ― Rob Siltanen
146. “Permit yourself to change your mind when something is no longer working for you.” ― Nedra Glover Tawwab
147. “Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.” ― Denis Waitley
148. “Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but unlearning old limits.” – Alan Cohen
149. “Pick one thing to change, make it your number one priority, and see it through before you move on to the next.” – Jay Shetty
150. “Push yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.” — Rhyanna Watson
151. “Quit blaming your past for your current condition. Yesterday has nothing to do with today or tomorrow unless you decide it does.” – Grant Cardone
152. “Realizing that our actions, feelings, and behavior are the results of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.” — Maxwell Maltz
153. “Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life.” – Deborah Day
154. “Remember, you are in control of your life and how you will live it. You are a lone wolf who chooses to be big and not shrink for the comfort of others. Give yourself permission to take up space, and bloom wildly without regret.” — Unknown
155. “Repeat anything often enough, and it will start to become you.” — Tom Hopkin
156. “Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.” — Maxwell Maltz
157. “Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.” — Baltasar Gracian
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158. “Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception.” – Jaggi Vasudev
159. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” ― Warren Buffett
160. “Sometimes in life, we take a leap of faith. Remember, the leap is not about getting from one side to the other. It’s simply about taking the leap…and trusting the air, the universal breath will support your wings so that you may soar.” ― Kristi Bowman
161. “Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction can be the biggest step of your life.” – Naeem Callaway
162. “Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.” – Suzy Kassem
163. “Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it, and eventually, the confidence will follow.” ― Carrie Fisher
164. “Stop looking at time. Work on yourself. Be the greatest version of yourself and let the time look at you and get astonished by your massive transformation.” – Hiral Nagda
165. “Stop reading inspirational quotes and get to work.” – Guy Kawasaki
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166. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” ― Albert Einstein
167. “Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside.” ― Idowu Koyenikan
168. “Success isn’t overnight. It’s when every day you get a little bit better than the day before. It all adds up.” – Dwayne Johnson
169. “Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.” ― Hillary Clinton
170. “The best thing I ever did was take responsibility for my own success, happiness, health and peace.” – Unknown
171. “The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it is called the present.” – Alice Morse Earle
172. “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” — Carl R. Rogers
173. “The difference between being mediocre and achieving excellence is you.” — Stephen Richards
174. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” — Jimmy Johnson
175. “The dreaming has to be backed up by the doing.” – Carrie Wilkerson
176. “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” – J.P. Morgan
177. “The health of your brain is much more about your actions than your age.” – Dr. Daniel Amen
178. “The important thing is that we must be constantly moving forward ― yes, the progressive realization of a predetermined goal. And our growth should never end.” ― Og Mandino
179. “The key to happiness is really progress and growth and constantly working on yourself and developing something.” — Lewis Howes
180. “The mind is just like a muscle ― the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.” ― Idowu Koyenikan
181. “The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred… Unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
182. “The moment you take responsibility for everything in your life is the moment you can change anything in your life.” – Hal Elrod
183. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” ― Amelia Earhart
184. “The only person that limits you stares back at you in the mirror every single day.” – Andy Frisella
185. “The only person you’re destined to be is the one you decide to become.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
186. “The only thing I’m committed to right now is bettering myself.” – Unknown
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187. “The only thing standing between you and your goals is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” – Jordan Belfort
188. “The power of imagination makes us infinite.” ― John Muir
189. “The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.” — B. R. Haydon
190. “The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development.” ― Robin Sharma
191. “The time is now. Stop hitting the snooze button on your life.” — Mel Robbins
192. “The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” ― Benjamin Mays
193. “The type of person you are is usually reflected in your business. To improve your business, first improve yourself.” ― Idowu Koyenikan
194. “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
195. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” ― Edith Wharton
196. “There is no challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself.” ― Michael F. Staley
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197. “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” ― Ernest Hemingway
198. “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” – Aldous Huxley
199. “There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself…there are no limits.” – Michael Phelps
200. “There will be times in your life when things simply have to be replaced because they are tired, broken, worn out, harmful, outdated, or irrelevant. Take an inventory of the things that no longer serve your best and highest good so you can replace them with things which do.” — Susan C. Young
201. “There’s always room for improvement.” — Joey Logano
202. “There’s nothing wrong with self-improvement, as long as you recognize that at some point you’re going to have to accept yourself in all your imperfect glory. What’s wrong with liking yourself the way you are?” — Jessica Zafra
203. “There’s only one investment that will never go down — an investment in yourself.”― Frank Sonnenberg
204. “Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better by the changes we make in ourselves.” ― Swami Vivekananda
205. “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” ― George Bernard Shaw
206. “Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.” — Jim Rohn
207. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” ― Carl Bard
208. “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
209. “We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” – Rick Warren
210. “We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” ― Oprah Winfrey
211. “We repeat what we don’t repair.” – Unknown
212. “We should not judge people by their peak of excellence, but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.” ― Henry Ward Beecher
213. “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
214. “What we think, we become.” ― Buddha
215. “What you dislike in another, take care to correct in yourself.” — Thomas Sprat
216. “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” ― Jane Goodall
217. “When everything seems like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top.” ― Unknown
218. “When it comes to your dreams, you have two choices: pursue them or be haunted by them.” – Mel Robbins
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219. “When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.” ― Karen E. Quinones Miller
220. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.” ― Malala Yousafzai
221. “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor Frankl
222. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” ― Paulo Coelho
223. “When we’re growing up, there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.” ― Elliot Page
224. “When you are at that intersection in the road and you’ve got two paths to go down, because of the impact of certain people in your life, you’re able to choose the right path.” – Jason Witten
225. “When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you…never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” ― Harriet Beecher Stowe
226. “Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.” ― Niccolo Machiavelli
227. “Who is a true seeker grows, learns, and discovers that he is the only one responsible for what happens.” — Jorge Bucay
228. “With self-discipline, most anything is possible.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
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229. “Work on being in love with the person in the mirror who has been through so much but is still standing.” – Unknown
230. “Work on yourself more than you do on your job.” ― Jim Rohn
231. “Working on yourself is more important than working on others.” – Unknown
232. “You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.” ― Sophia Bush
233. “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
234. “You are struggling with the walls of resistance that you have built around yourself.” — Sadhguru
235. “You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” ― Diane von Furstenberg
236. “You are who you decide to be. If you want to be a positive person, decide to be. If you want to be a successful person, decide to be. You have to create the life you want and cut off people who prevent you from achieving it.” — Unknown
237. “You can waste your life drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” ― Shonda Rhimes
238. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis
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239. “You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.” – Diana Ross
240. “You cannot reach where you are going if you continue to be the same person you have always been.” ― Germany Kent
241. “You complete me in a way that I’ve become the best version of myself. Thank you for being my inspiration.” — Unknown
242. “You influence others better by working on yourselves to grow and add your own value; others will see what you have become and be attracted by what they see and observe.” – Lucas Shallua
243. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan
244. “You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow.” – Idowu Koyenikan
245. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – Unknown
246. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself.” – Unknown
247. “You’re either green and growing, or you’re ripe and rotting.” — John Addison
248. “You’ve got to have rules to live by, and one of mine is always say yes. Put yourself in danger of something amazing happening to you.” — Tom Bilyeu
249. “Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.” — Maxwell Maltz
250. “Your next level requires transformation.” – Germany Kent
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