The 150 Best Short and Positive Growth Mindset Quotes for Women

We all hope we continue to grow and improve throughout our life, and we have put together a list of all the best growth mindset quotes to share these thoughts with your next post. And if you’re looking for short growth mindset quotes for Instagram, we also have you covered.

Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.

Short Growth Mindset Quotes

“I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn now 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

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

“You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.” – Abraham Maslow

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein

“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

“It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“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

“Smart is something you become, not something you are.” – Unknown

“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, Little Women

“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

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

“I never lose. I either win or learn.” – Nelson Mandela

“The expert on anything was once a beginner.” – Helen Hayes

“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, I’m possible.” – Audrey Hepburn

“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 have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison

“I like the impossible. There, the competition is smaller.” – Walt Disney

“Love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort and keep on learning.” – Carol Dweck

“We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” – Oprah Winfrey

“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

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“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

“Becoming is better than being.” – Carol Dweck

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

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T. S. Eliot

“Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.” – Malala Yousafzai

“Believing takes practice.” – Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“It is kind of fun to do the impossible.” – Walt Disney

“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat.” – Sheryl Sandberg

“One day or day one. You decide.” – Unknown

“Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.” – Nelson Mandela

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy

“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.“ – Harry Golden

“Success is not an accident, success is a choice.” – Stephen Curry

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

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot

“I do not know the word ‘quit.’ Either I never did, or I have abolished it.” – Susan Butcher

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

If you like these, you might also want to check out our other lists of Positive Personal Growth Quotes, Self Change Quotes, Stay Positive Quotes and Inspirational Quotes for Today.

Positive Growth Mindset Quotes

“I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.” – Venus Williams

“Children love this idea that their brain is like a muscle that gets stronger as they use it.” – Carol Dweck

“You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see that plan through to the end.” – Sidney A. Friedman

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying…“Failing to try is like trying to fail.” – Michael Jordan

“Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.” – Julia Margaret Cameron

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain

“If you don’t give anything, don’t expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.” – Marva Collins

“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up.” – Nelson Mandela

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

“Don’t stress about not having it all figured out. Social media can make us think that we’re the only one not “trending up and to the right.” Focus intently on where you are at now and use this as leverage while everyone else is focused on projecting where they want to be rather than where they actually are.” – Angela Benton

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

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

“Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.” – Michael Arrington, Founder & Co-editor of TechCrunch

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill

“Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time but it is the ability to resist or use failure that often leads to greater success.”– J. K. Rowling

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” – Henry Ford

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles Swindoll

“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

“Don’t give up, don’t take anything personally, and don’t take no for an answer; you never know what you’re going to learn along the way.” – Sophia Amoruso

“Success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else.” – John C. Maxwell

“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh

“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence—it is to act with yesterday’s logic.” – Peter Drucker

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

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

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”– Dr. Seuss

“Dragons take on many forms – the hardest task of the day, a new responsibility, an impending deadline, or even dealing with conflict – and the trick is to just slay the dragon and move on. Don’t overthink it. To succeed, you have to have the confidence to take things head on and keep moving forward.” – Sarah Mannone

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but building the new.”

“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson

“You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” – Louise L. Hay

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

“Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.” – N. R. Narayana Murthy

“Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.” – Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Caroll

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

“I don’t know what lies around the bend but I’m going to believe that the best does.”– L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.” – Ronald Reagan

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

“It’s not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

 “Just because you haven’t found your talent yet doesn’t mean you don’t have one.” – Kermit the Frog

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill

“Building a business is knowing how to do something, being proud, is to create something that will make a real difference in other people’s lives.” – Richard Branson

“You cannot go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. – Mark Twain

“Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air, new lights and new truths to enter.” – Amit Ray

“Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.” – Bethany Hamilton

“Incredible things in the business world are never made by a single person, but by a team.” – Steve Jobs

“If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” – Dhirubhai Ambani

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” – Andy Rooney, Journalist

“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.” – William Durant

“Ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.” – Anonymous

“Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being excited about what could go right.” – Unknown

“If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it – then I can achieve it.” – Muhammad Ali

“Rarely are opportunities presented to you in a perfect way. In a nice little box with a yellow bow on top. ‘Here, open it, it’s perfect. You’ll love it.’ Opportunities – the good ones – are messy, confusing and hard to recognize. They’re risky. They challenge you.” – Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube

“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

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

“When entire companies embrace a growth mindset, their employees report feeling far more empowered and committed; they also receive far greater organizational support for collaboration and innovation.” – Carol S. Dweck

“Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” – George Hérbert

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

“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass… it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” – William Shakespeare

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

“It’s important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.” – Sara Blakely

“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.” – Socrates

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anaïs Nin

“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine

“Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.” – Mark Pincus, CEO of Zynga

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin

“If you work hard and meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead, no matter where you come from, what you look like or who you love.” – Barack Obama

“Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it’s a really good thing to remember.” – Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM

“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not the attainment; full effort is full victory.” – Mahatma Gandhi

So that is it for our list of Growth Mindset Quotes for Women. We hope you found the perfect one!