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Inspirational Quotes That Every Entrepreneur Should Read

Stay motivated and inspired with this powerful words and sayings

The challenges that come with launching and growing a business can be quite daunting. Yet if you ask any veteran entrepreneur, the rewards and payoff can be well worth it. But with so many new businesses failing to get off the ground, many wonder why so few are successful when a president has already been set on how to achieve great success.

In this day and age with the Internet and access to so many online courses and tutorials, now more than ever it has become much easier for people to become successful with their business. Just any investor and they will tell you that all the tools and resources that were once kept secret to very few of the elite inner circle people are now accessible by anyone. So why are so many new business owners struggling?

The simple answer is their mindset and ability to stay motivated and inspired on a daily basis. Having to wake up every day to push yourself to overcome all of the obstacles and challenges that come with running a business can be quite daunting. Yet when we look around and see that some are capable of doing it while others cannot it becomes obvious that some have formed better habits than others.

This is why it is imperative that every entrepreneur set aside some time each day to get themselves motivated and inspired. Whether its from running, doing yoga, or just going for a brisk walk, its important to do something that gets your mind sharp (and not just coffee). One way we highly recommend getting yourself pumped up is by reading inspirational quotes and sayings. These positive words can have a great impact on your mood and ability to handle stressful situations when they arise.

Here are some quotes we highly recommend:

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. – Nelson Mandela

It doesn’t matter how far you might rise. At some point, you are bound to stumble…. If you’re constantly pushing yourself higher…the law of averages, not to mention the Myth of Icarus, predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction. - Oprah

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. – Francis of Assisi

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

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all-time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -Vince Lombardi

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. – Zig Ziglar

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. -Debbi Fields

In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That’s how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a startup, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, ‘You gotta build it.’ I say, ‘I have to believe in it.’ -Ashton Kutcher

 

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. – Orison Swett Marden