10 Best Quotes That Will Inspire Personal Excellence

10 Best Quotes That Will Inspire Personal Excellence
Top performers in any field at any level have one thing in common: The never stop growing.

You must let go to grow.

Trees grow up through their branches, down through their roots, and wider with each passing year. As growth occurs, trees eventually shed their protective bark to make way for growth. Humans are the same way. 

Just as trees need bark as a protective shield while growth occurs, you need boundaries to defend your vulnerabilities as your potential unfolds. But your ongoing growth depends on your ability to shed this "bark" of protection when it is no longer needed. In some cases, an inability to shed this bark will constrict your ability to realize your full potential.

But unlike trees, which shed their bark automatically, you must consciously adjust your comfort zones. Create the mental space you need to learn new skills, to stretch your thinking, to deepen your emotions, and to grow.

Here are 10 quotes to inspire your growth.

1. Thought, not money, is the real business capital.  - Harvey S. Firestone
2. Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.  - John F. Kennedy
3. Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.  - Jean Vanier
4. He who rejects change is the architect of decay. - Harold Wilson
5. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.  - Confucius
6. The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.  - Newton D. Baker
7. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.  - Chinese proverb
8. What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.  - Aristotle
9. In teaching others, we teach ourselves. - Proverb
10. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.  - Les Brown

Thank you to Lee Colan for putting together this article.