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Quotes about growing, changing and becoming. This hand-picked collection brings together 23 of the finest personal growth quotes ever written — from Winston Churchill, Lewis Carroll, Friedrich Nietzsche and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

— Winston Churchill

I can't go back to yesterday — because I was a different person then.

— Lewis Carroll

Become who you are.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.

A season of loneliness and isolation is often the season when a caterpillar gets its wings.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.

Autumn teaches us the beauty of letting go. Growth requires release — it's what the trees do.

Growth and comfort do not coexist.

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled.

— M. Scott Peck

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

— Napoleon Hill

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

— Nelson Mandela

The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.

— Dalai Lama

True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

— Socrates

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

— Lao Tzu

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information, but of unlearning old limits.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

— Maya Angelou

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