In order to be a successful entrepreneur, it’s essential to have an unwavering sense of determination and self-confidence.
No matter how many rejections you get or obstacles in your way, you need to keep your eye on the prize and believe that you can make your startup a success.
We often hear the term “fake it ‘til you make it” when we talk about being successful as an entrepreneur. That means that even if you don’t feel confident or think you can do what needs to be done, fake it until things come together for you. Overcoming adversity is an essential part of moving from being an initial idea to a company with traction.
Those days when you feel stuck, these quotes will help you find the inspiration you need to keep going. You are not alone in this journey. You can do it.
Top 125 Encouragement Quotes To Inspire You
“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” – H. G. Wells
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” – Elon Musk
“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Relax. One bad chapter does not mean it’s the end of the book.“ ― Paulo Coelho
“Never regret something that once made you smile.”– Amber Deckers
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.“ – Ben Spock
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. C.S.“ ― Lewis
“You are amazing, you are brave, you are strong.” ― Unknown
“A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.”– Unknown
“Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it“-Charles Swindoll
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. “-Corrie Boom
“You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.“ ― Marian Wright Edelman
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”– Hellen Keller
“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” – Amelia Earhart
“Progress is almost never linear. Ups and downs and bursts.“ ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.“ ― Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching)
“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” – Greg Anderson
“Every day of our lives, we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.“ ― Mignon McLaughlin
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao Tzu
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa
“A ship is always safe at the shore – but that is NOT what it is built for.” – Albert Einstein
“A little progress everyday adds up to big results.” ― Unknown
“You are capable of amazing things.” ― Unknown
“Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.”– Anne Frank
“Beautiful girl you were made to do hard things. So believe in yourself.” ― Unknown
“Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. “– Garrison Keillor
“You’re going to be happy”, said life, “but first I’ll make you strong.“ ― Paulo Coelho
“Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don’t just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won’t happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you’ll love it up here.” – Donald Trump
“Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.” ― Unknown
“Sometimes when you are in a dark place you think you have been buried, but actually you have been planted.” ― Unknown
“It doesn’t matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ― Confucius
“God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with. “-Henry Beecher
“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Everything you need to accomplish your goals is already in you.” ― Unknown
“Soon, when all is well, you’re going to look back on this period of your life and be so glad that you never gave up.“ ― Brittany Burgunder
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley
“A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.” ― Unknown
“In case you forgot to remind yourself this morning: Your butt is perfect. Your smile lights up the room. Your mind is insanely cool. You are way more than enough. And you are doing an amazing job at life.” ― Unknown
“You’re not going to master the rest of your life in one day. Just relax. Master the day. Then just keep doing that every day.” ― Unknown
“You are gold, baby. Solid gold.” ― Unknown
“It always seems impossible until it is done.” – Nelson Mandela
“You’re allowed to scream, you’re allowed to cry but do not give up.” ― Unknown
You’re tired and scared. Happens to everyone, okay? Just don’t let your feet stop.“ ― Haruki Murakami
“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. “-Flavia
“When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up.”– Les Brown
“Be gentle with yourself. You’re doing the best you can!” ― Unknown
“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”-Franklin D Roosevelt
“Never let a bad situation bring out the worst in you. Choose to stay positive and be the strong person that God created you to be!” ― Unknown
“Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come. Remember everything you have faced, all the battles you have won, and all the fears you have overcome.” ― Unknown
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank
“It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always. “– Oprah Winfrey
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them. “– John Aughey
“If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. “– Latin Proverb
“When you feel like you’re drowning in life, don’t worry – your Lifeguard walks on water.” ― Unknown
“You are stronger than you know. More capable than you ever dreamed. And you are loved more than you could possibly imagine.” ― Unknown
“Sometimes it takes an overwhelming breakdown to have an undeniable breakthrough.” ― Unknown
“Press on – nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.”– Calvin Coolidge
“Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie
“Perhaps I am stronger than I think.“ ― Thomas Merton
“Trying and struggling looks like incompetence right up until the moment it looks like success.“ ― Shane Parrish
“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
Best Encouraging Quotes
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
“Hold on to what is good, even if it’s a handful of earth.” – Hopi prayer
“No matter what, just keep going.“ ― Maxime Lagacé
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.“– Henry Thoreau
“The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.“ – Bernard Baruch
“There’s something in you that the world needs.” ― Unknown
“Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.” – Democritus
“When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.” – Byron Katie
“Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. “ – Unknown
“The best revenge is massive success.”– Frank Sinatra
“If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”– David Allen
“I’m proud of you. I hope that you are proud of you too.“ ― Fred Rogers
“Be thankful for what you have and you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey
“I know it has been tough but I still cheering for you.” ― Unknown
“I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.”– Audrey Hepburn
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.“ – Frederick Douglass
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality in the mind next to honor “-Aristotle
“Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.“– H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“When you get to your wits end, you will find, God lives there. – Unknown
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. “ – Edmund Hillary
”Fall seven times, stand up eight.”– Japanese Proverb
“You can make a difference, and you can make it now. You can make a difference, in your own life, in your family, your community, your world.“ ― Ralph Marston
“Sometimes the best thing you can do is not think, not wonder, not imagine, not obsess. Just breathe and have faith that everything will work out for the best.” ― Unknown
“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”– Stephen King
“Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.“– Edmund Burke
“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. “– Rainer Rilke
“It doesn’t matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it’s important to realize that whatever you’re doing, it’s your first attempt at it.“-Wally Amos
“Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. “– Edwin Markham
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.“– Friedrich Nietzsche
“If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you.You may have a fresh start any moment you choose,for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.“– Mary Pickford
“When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity. “– John F. Kennedy
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.“ -Mother Teresa
“He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.“ – William James
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. “-Richard Bach
“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy.” – Groucho Marx
“But if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.“ ― Marcus Aurelius
“I’m so proud of you. I just wanted to tell you in case no one has.” ― Unknown
“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.” – Bruce Barton
“In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.”– Tony Robbins
“Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement – and we will make the goal. “– Jerome Fleishman
“Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.”-Walt Disney
Short Encouraging Quotes
“Stay humble, do your best, and the rest will follow.” ― Justin Kan
“The nature of this flower is to bloom.” ― Alice Walker
“Encouragement is oxygen for the soul.” ― John C. Maxwell
“Within you are so many answers.” ― Douglas Pagels
“The best way out is always through.” ― Robert Frost
“What a difference a day makes.” ― Haruki Murakami
“Inhale courage.” ― Exhale fear. Mel Robbins
“One day at a time.” ― Haruki Murakami
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” ― Japanese proverb
“This too shall pass.”– Persian Sufi Poets
“The beginnings of all things are small.” ― Cicero
“Hope springs forever.” ― J.K. Rowling
“Courage, dear heart.” ― C.S. Lewis
“He who limps is still walking.” ― Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
“Where you are, is not who you are.” ― Unknown
“If it’s not okay, it’s not over.” ― Haruka Murakami
“You’re not too old and it’s not too late.” ― Lori Deschesne
“You can climb that mountain, you can reach the top.” ― Maxime Lagacé
“Your doubts create mountains, but your actions move them.” ― Mel Robbins
