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When your goal is personal development, fostering a growth mindset is a crucial first step.

“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

“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

“When we’re growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.” - Elliot Page

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” - Frederick Douglass

“Permit yourself to change your mind when something is no longer working for you.” - Nedra Glover Tawwab

“Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.” - Chinese Proverb

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” - Carl Bard

A great leader knows how to translate vision into reality, even when one person’s vision seems like a dream. Here are 10 powerful quotes on striking your own path:

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
-Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action — an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign — even as the rest of the world wonders why you're not marching in step with the status quo. In other words, real leaders are happy to zig while others zag. They understand that in an era of hyper-competition and non-stop disruption, the only way to stand out from the crowd is to stand for something special."
-Bill Taylor, from the article "Do You Pass the Leadership Test?"
"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet."
-Theodore M. Hesburgh
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
-Thomas Jefferson
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has."
-Margeret Mead
"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."
-Martin Luther King Jr.
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
-Charles Darwin
"Leaders grasp nettles."
-David Ogilvy