Personal Development Quote # 20

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but also the parent of all the others."

- Cicero

Personal Development Quote # 19

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

Personal Development Quote # 18

"Everyone wants to be appreciated. So if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret."

- Mary Kay Ash

Personal Development Quote # 17

"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure."

- William Saroyan

Personal Development Quote # 16

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

Personal Development Quote # 15

"I don't think there's any such thing as setting your goals too high. The higher you set your goals, the more you are going to work. If you don't reach them, then it's okay, just as long as you set it and then give 100% of yourself."

- Dan Jansen

Personal Development Quote # 14

"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Personal Development Quote # 13

"Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction."

- Al Bernstein

Personal Development Quote # 12

"Failure is success if we learn from it."

- Malcolm Forbes

Personal Development Quote # 11

"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year."

- John Foster Dulles

Personal Development Quote # 10 -- And a Video!

"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."

- George S. Patton

And as an "added bonus" to celebrate our 10th personal development quote, here's a video with several excellent quotes from one of our soon-to-be resident favorites (as the blog goes on), Jim Rohn:

Personal Development Quote # 9

"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."

- Dale Carnegie

Personal Development Quote # 8

"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion."

- Jim Rohn

Personal Development Quote # 7

"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves. Self-discipline with all of them came first."

- Harry Truman

Personal Development Quote # 6

"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with the inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent."

- Sophia Loren

Personal Development Quote # 5

"Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve."

- Tom Peters

Personal Development Quote # 4

"None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments. The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them."

- Bernard Baruch

Personal Development Quote # 3

"Be the change you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

Personal Development Quote # 2

"Most battles are won before they are ever fought."

– George Patton

Personal Development Quote # 1

"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

Welcome to Personal Development Quotes!

Welcome to Personal Development Quotes! This blog is all about providing inspiring success-oriented quotes from famous authors, business leaders, statesmen, religious figures, philosophers, and practically anyone that has said anything worthwhile.

This blog will definitely remain faithful to its namesake: Most of the posts you see here will simply be a personal development quote of some kind, with little to no embellishment. I want the quotes to speak for themselves.

Stop by often for your daily dose of quotes that promote self improvement and feed a success-oriented mentality. Long story short, these quotes have inspired me, and I hope they inspire you as well. Enjoy!