105 Inspiring Growth Mindset Quotes for Kids and Adults (2023)

February 25, 2023

Top 105 Growth Mindset Quotes

Are you looking to take the first step towards building your own growth mindset? Searching for inspiring quotes from successful people is a great place to start!

The phrase, “growth mindset”, was coined by Dr. Carol S. Dweck in her 2006 book, “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.”

According to the american psychologist from Stanford university Carol Dweck, when we have a growth mindset, we believe that our intelligence, creative abilities, and character are things that we can improve in meaningful ways.

The opposite to a growth mindset is what Dweck refers to as a “fixed mindset,” this is when a person will not budge in their belief that they or anything they think about can be improved. Essentially their mind and how they view things is fixed and not open to growth.

A growth mindset is one of the most important things needed to achieve greatness and success, because with one, anything becomes possible.

Now that you know what the term means and where it comes from, let’s take a look at the best growth mindset quotes from successful people across the world.

25 Most Inspirational Growth Mindset Quotes

“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”

– Henry Ford

“Always do what you are afraid of doing.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The problem human beings face is not that we aim too high and fail, but we aim too low and succeed.”

– Michelangelo

“All things are difficult before they are easy.”

– Thomas Fuller

“You have not failed unless you have quit trying.”

– Gordon B. Hinckley

“Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing.”

– Ellen Langer

“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.”

– Michelangelo

“Improvement starts within you and is dependent on your own efforts. So, make the effort.”

– Remez Sasson

“The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.”

– Wallace Wattles

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”

– Walt Disney

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed no hope at all.”

– Dale Carnegie

“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”

– Richard Branson

“A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.”

– Vernon Howard

“With a fixed mindset, you believe you are who you are and you cannot change.”

– Travis Bradberry

“Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”

– Joshua J. Marine

“Your mindset determines how you perceive and connect to the world around you.”

– Joseph Taylor

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

– Mark Twain

“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

– Warren Buffett

“We find comfort among those who agree with us, and growth among those who don’t.”

– Frank A. Clark

“I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.”

– William Ernest Henley

“After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: “What did I do right?” and “What would I do differently?”

– Brian Tracy

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

– George Bernard Shaw

“Look for the good in every situation, seek the valuable lesson in every setback, look for the solution to every problem. Think and talk continually about your goals.”

– Brian Tracy

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

– Lao Tzu

“Unless you’re willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won’t happen.”

– Phillip Adams

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“Don’t worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”

– Sherman Finesilver

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”

– Albert Einstein

“There is no failure. Only feedback.”

– Robert Allen

“Our greatest glory comes not from never failing, but rising every time we fall.”

– Confucius

“Don’t worry about failure. Worry about chances you miss when you don’t even try.”

– Sherman Finesilver

“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.”

– Thomas Watson

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

– Napoleon Hill

“All things are difficult before they are easy.”

– Thomas Fuller

“Being rich and successful always starts with your mindset.”

– William Scaec

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”

– H.G. Wells

“The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.”

– Winston Churchill

“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”

– Samuel Johnson

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”

– Henry David Thoreau

“We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”

– Marie Curie

“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”

– Steve Jobs

“If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”

– Frank A. Clark

“Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.”

– John Wayne

“Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.”

– Charlie Chaplin

“No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.”

– Voltaire

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

– E.E. Cummings

“Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.”

– Steve Marabol

“Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”

– Joshua J. Marine

“The real fault is to have faults and not to amend them.”

– Confucius

“Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.”

– Samuel Johnson

“The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– The Buddha

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“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”

– Epictetus

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”

– Benjamin Franklin

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”

– Jim Rohn

“I don’t divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures. . .I divide the world into the learners and the non-learners.”

– Benjamin Barber

“Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can; there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.”

– Sarah Caldwell

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

– Jim Rohn

“There’s no such thing as failure, only results.”

– Tony Robbins

“Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success.”

– Arianna Huffington

“I am always doing what I cannot do yet. In order to learn how to do it.”

– Vincent Van Gogh

“Everybody dies, but not everybody lives.”

– A. Sachs

“We find comfort among those who agree with us, and growth among those who don’t.”

– Frank A. Clark

“The people who think they are crazy enough to change the world are the ones who do.”

– Steve Jobs

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

– Mahatma Gandhi

“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”

– Oprah Winfrey

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make a mistake.”

– Elbert Hubbard

“Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is. But they don’t tell you where a student could end up.”

– Carol Dweck

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”

– Margaret Thatcher

“A man’s mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“Dreams won’t work unless you do.”

– John C. Maxwell

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

“Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.”

– J. W. Goethe

“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”

– Harry Golden

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

– Wayne Gretzky

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“Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must also step up the stairs.”

– Vaclac Havel

“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”

– Napoleon Hill

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“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.”

– Thomas Watson

“Is there something in your past that you think measured you? A test score? A dishonest or callous action? Being fired from a job? Being rejected? Focus on that thing. Feel all the emotions that go with it. Now put it in a growth-mindset perspective. Look honestly at your role in it, but understand that it doesn’t define your intelligence or personality. Instead, ask: What did I (or can I ) learn from that experience? How can I use it as a basis for growth? Carry that with you instead.”

– Carol S. Dweck

“Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success.”

– J.K. Rowling

“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”

– Nelson Mandela

“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of being.”

– John Wooden

“There is always a step small enough from where we are to get us to where we want to be. If we take that small step, there’s always another we can take, and eventually a goal thought to be too far to reach becomes achievable.”

– Ellen Langer

“Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?”

– Carol S. Dweck

“You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By becoming a little better each and every day, over a period of time, you will become a lot better.”

– John Wooden

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”

– Albert Ellis

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

– John Foster Dulles

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

– Thomas A. Edison

“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.”

– B.C. Forbes

“My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn’t have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don’t be afraid to fail.”

– Sara Blakely

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”

– Thomas Edison

“Don’t tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.”

– Arthur Rubenstein

“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 sail away from the safe harbour. Explore, Dream, Discover.”

– Mark Twain

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”

– Winston Churchill

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

“Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.”

– Marva Collins

“What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.”

– Maya Angelou

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“Work hard now. Don’t wait. If you work hard enough, you’ll be given what you deserve.”

– Shaquille O’Neal

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

– William Shakespeare

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’”

– Muhammad Ali

Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live.”

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“If you quit once it becomes a habit. Don’t Quit.”

– Michael Jordan

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

– Pablo Picasso

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!”

– Audrey Hepburn

“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”

– Vince Lombardi

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

“We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.”