30 Motivational Quotes for Entrepreneurs to Start the Day with Purpose and Passion

Each day begins anew which means an opportunity to chase and achieve your aspirations, dreams, and goals.

But some days we’re just not feeling it, right?

Here are thirty motivational quotes for entrepreneurs just like you to help start the day with excitement, inspiration, and the reminder that you’re on the planet to do something!

Start Your Day With Purpose and Passion: Motivational Quotes for Entrepreneurs

If you find that one of these quotes resonates with you, why not share it with one of your friends or colleagues? Everyone can use a little boost in their day!

1) “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” —Albert Einstein

2) “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” —Amelia Earhart

3) Winners are not people who never fail but people who never quit. 

4) “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” —Anne Frank

5) “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” —George Addair

6) “Winners focus on winning, losers focus on winners.” —Conor McGregor

7) “There are better starters than me, but I’m a strong finisher.” —Usain Bolt

8) “Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.” —Winston Churchill

9) “I never dreamt of success. I worked for it.” —Estee Lauder

10) “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” —Robert Collier

11) You already have wings, now go fly!

12) “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need tomorrow.” —Robert Tew

13) “It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” —Sir Edmund Hillary

14) “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” —T.S. Eliot

15) “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

16) It may be stormy now but that doesn’t mean the sun isn’t on its way. Focus on the destination, not the path!

17) “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” —Chris Grosser

18) “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”  ― Suzy Kassem

19) It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.

20) “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” -Dr. Seuss

21) “Well done is better than well said.” —Benjamin Franklin

22) The only place SUCCESS comes before WORK is in the dictionary.

23) “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”  —Pablo Picasso

24) “You are not defined by your past, you are prepared by it.” —Joel Osteen

25) “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” —Ralph Marston

26) “Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.” —Peter T. McIntyre

27) “I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt nothing and succeed.” —Robert H. Schuller

28) “Leap and the net will appear.” —John Burroughs

29) “You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it.” —Dr. Robert Anthony

30) “Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.” —Charles Kettering

What Say You?

The daily grind can be tough on some days. The key is staying motivated each day.  Believe that you will succeed but accept that failure may happen first. (And if you’re worried about failure, check out these powerful quotes that will help when you doubt yourself.)

Now, tell me in the comments, what is your personal mantra to stay motivated and inspired?