50 Motivational Quotes for Entrepreneurs You Need to Read Today

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By Tricia McKinnon

Whether you are starting a new entrepreneurial adventure or you have been in the trenches for a while at some point you will need a dose of inspiration to make sure you keep going. Often it’s during the times when you experience the greatest darkness that you are closest to the dawn. If that sounds like you then here are 50 motivational quotes I hope will motivate you not to give up so you can achieve your dreams. 

1. "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela

2. "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough." - Oprah Winfrey 

3. "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson

4. “Believe you can and you're halfway there.” - Theodore Roosevelt

5. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt

6. "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." - Aristotle

7. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” - John D. Rockefeller 

8. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” - Oprah Winfrey

9. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” - Harriet Tubman

10. "The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do." - Steve Jobs

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11. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” - Napoleon Hill

12.  “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” - Dalai Lama

13.  “Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.” - Brian Tracy

14.  “Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.” -  Thomas Edison

15.  “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” - Mahatma Gandhi

16.  “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” - Seth Godin

17.  “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it”. - Maya Angelou

18.  “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

19. “I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.” - Serena Williams

20. “It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.” - Larry Page

21. “Don’t be scared if you don’t do things in the right order. I didn’t think I’d have dessert before breakfast today, but hey, it turned out that way and I wouldn’t change a thing.” - Mindy Kaling

22. "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs

23. "Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

24. "A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes." - Mahatma Gandhi

25. "Worry is like a rocking chair: It gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere," - Erma Bombeck.

26. "That which does not kill us, makes us stronger," - Friedrich Nietzsche

27.  "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson

28. "There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed." - Ray Goforth

29. "If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." - Jim Rohn

30.  "If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time." - Steve Jobs

31. “The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.” – Sergey Brin

32. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

33. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

34. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller 

35.  “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” - Dale Carnegie 

36.  “Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” - Roy T. Bennett

37. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair 

38.  “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison 

39. "If not us, then who? If not now, then when?" - John Lewis

40.  "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."  - Confucius

41.  "If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."  - Lao Tzu

42.  "Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity." - Will Smith

43.  "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

44. "I am in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing," - Louise Hay  

45. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity In every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill

46. Do today what others won’t so tomorrow you can do what others can’t. – Jerry Rice

47. Never give up hope. All things are working for your good. One day, you’ll look back on everything you’ve been through and thank God for it. – Germany Kent

48. If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. – Martin Luther King Jr.

49. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

50. “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene

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