40 Best Inspirational Quotes for Entrepreneurs from Inc.

1. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” Chinese proverb
2. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” Florence Nightingale
3. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” Amelia Earhart
4. “Do it or not. There is no try.” Yoda
   
5. “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” Mark Twain
6. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” Lao Tzu
7. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” Alice Walker
8. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” John Lennon
9. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” Woody Allen
10. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” George Eliot
11. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” Henry Ford
12. “You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.” Unknown
13. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” Joshua Marine
14. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” Booker T. Washington
15. “Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.” Jimmy Spithill
16. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” Steve Jobs
17. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” Stephen Covey
18. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”  Maya Angelou
19. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”  Mark Twain
20. “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
21. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” Anais Nin
22. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”Aristotle
23. “Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.” Teddy Roosevelt
24. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” George Addair
25. “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” Japanese proverb
    
26. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost
27. “The extra mile is a vast, unpopulated wasteland.” (OK, that one’s mine)
28. “What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” Bob Dylan
29. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” Albert Einstein
30. “The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” Chinese proverb
31. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” Maya Angelou
32. “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” Wayne Gretzky
33. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” Farrah Gray
34. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” Confucius
35. “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” Tony Robbins
36. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” Beverly Sills
37. “Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.” Booker T. Washington
38. “Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Eleanor Roosevelt
39. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” Ayn Rand
40. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” Steve Jobs

Source: Inc.