85 Positive Growth Mindset Quotes to Keep You Moving Forward
These uplifting growth mindset quotes will inspire you to keep going, even when things get tough.
They focus on the value of hard work, resilience, and the belief that improvement is always possible.
Share them to motivate yourself or others to overcome setbacks and aim higher every day.
Growth Mindset Quotes
“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” — Maya Angelou
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” — Ernest Hemingway
“If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” — Frank A. Clark
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” — Albert Einstein
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” — Wayne Gretzky
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” — Bill Gates
“No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.” — Voltaire
“I never lose. I either win or learn.” — Nelson Mandela
“The expert on anything was once a beginner.” — Helen Hayes
“If you quit once it becomes a habit. Don’t quit.” — Michael Jordan
“Avoiding mistakes costs more than making them.” — Omer Shai
“Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.” — Tony Hsieh
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu
“Always do what you are afraid of doing.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” — Henry Ford
“You’re never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
“I like the impossible. There, the competition is smaller.” — Walt Disney
“It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“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
“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
“We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” — Oprah Winfrey
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” — Frederick Douglass
“Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.” — Chinese Proverb
“The only way that we can grow is if we change.” — C. JoyBell C.
“Success is not an accident, success is a choice.” — Stephen Curry
“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’” — Audrey Hepburn
“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” — James Joyce
“Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” — Joshua J. Marine
“Believe you can… and you are halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“Smart is something you become, not something you are.” — Unknown
“Great things rarely come from sitting in comfort zones.” — Ben Alldis
“No matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.” — Carol Dweck
“Change brings opportunity.” — Nido Qubein
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” — Albert Einstein
“I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.” — Vincent Van Gogh
“A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.” — Ray Davis
“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” — Confucius
“At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.” — Michelle Obama
“There is no failure. Only feedback.” — Robert Allen
“Mistakes aren’t mistakes, they are lessons!” — Israelmore Ayivor
“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.” — Sigmund Freud
“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.” — J.K. Rowling
“The secret to life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” — Paulo Coelho
“If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.” — Jeff Bezos
“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” — Napoleon Hill
“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
“There’s no such thing as failure, only results.” — Tony Robbins
“All things are difficult before they are easy.” — Thomas Fuller
“I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” — Thomas Edison
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius
“We find comfort among those who agree with us – growth among those who don’t.” — Frank Howard Clark
“Improve by 1% a day, and in just 70 days, you’re twice as good.” — Alan Weiss
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” — E.E. Cummings
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship.” — Louisa May Alcott
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.” — Albert Einstein
“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” — Colin R. Davis
“Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity.” — Will Smith
“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” — Ralph Marston
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” — Plutarch
“Courage is the price of growth.” — Unknown
“Small progress every day adds up to big results.” — Unknown
“Growth begins at the edge of your comfort zone.” — Unknown
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” — Winston Churchill
“If you’re not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you’re determined to learn, no one can stop you.” — Unknown
“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” — Chinese Proverb
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Progress is born from the willingness to try again.” — Unknown
“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” — A.A. Milne
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” — Jim Rohn
“Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.” — Robert Collier
“Love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort and keep on learning.” — Carol Dweck
“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” — Epictetus
“Every flower blooms at a different pace.” — Suzy Kassem
“It never gets easier. You just get better.” — Jordan Hoechlin
“The only person who can really motivate you is you.” — Shaquille O’Neal
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller
“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” — W. Clement Stone
“Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.” — Samuel Johnson
“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” — John D. Rockefeller
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” — Albert Einstein
“Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.” — Dale Carnegie
