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50 Best Famous Inspirational Quotes about Life Lessons

Today, I will be sharing with you 50 famous inspirational quotes about life lessons; specifically tailored for entrepreneurs. Do you need inspiration to achieve success in business and life? Do you need words of encouragement that will help you go through the entrepreneurial process of starting a business? Do you need inspiration to face your business challenges squarely? Do you want to learn how to overcome the trials of life?

50 Best Famous Inspirational Quotes about Life Lessons

1. “I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.” – Harland Sanders

2. “I learned it by doing it, and I was scared to death.” – Herb Kelleher

“To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.” – Aristotle Onassis

4. “I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.” – Estee Lauder

5. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I cannot accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan

6. “In every success story, you will find someone who has made a courageous decision.” – Peter F. Drucker

7. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

8. “Be big, fast and flexible.” – Reed Hastings

9. “Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton

10. “Ambition is the steam that drives men forward on the road to success. Only the engine under full steam can make the grade.” – Maxi Foreman

11. “I did as much as I could: raising chickens, pushing an ice-cream cart, bagging walnuts, driving a tractor on a beet farm, working on the railroad. I think this eclectic career helped me a lot in life.” – Charles Schwab

12. “A man who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn’t been asleep.” – Dave Thomas

13. “If there are things you don’t like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.” – Dave Thomas

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture solves each problem as they came. They helped themselves and they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they meet.” – W. Clement Stone

15. “Behind every adversity is an opportunity. If you lament over the adversity, you will miss the opportunity.” – Ajaero Tony Martins

16. “The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.”

“Yet a little sleep, a little slumber and a little folding of hands to sleep; so shall your poverty come.” – Proverbs 6: 10-11

“See thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before vain men.” – Proverbs 22: 29

“Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you are generally better off sticking with what you know and the third is that sometimes, your best investments are the ones you don’t make.” – Donald Trump

20. “Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.” – Donald Trump

21. “The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, “You can’t. You’ll fail. It won’t work. You don’t have…,” I wouldn’t be here today.” – Debbi Fields

22. “Like success, failure is many things to many people. With positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, and a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order to prepare to try again.” – W. Clement Stone

23. “For whatsoever thy hands find to do, do it with all thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave.”– Ecclesiastes 9: 10

24.“If you hear a voice within you saying ‘you are not a painter’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” – Vincent Van Gogh

25. “In the morning, sow your seed and in the evening, with hold not you hand; for you know not which one will prosper.” – The Holy Bible

26. “Failure is just a resting place. It is an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” – Henry Ford

27.”Most people give up just when they are about to achieve success. They quit on one yard line. They give up the at last minute of the game one foot from a winning touch down.” – Henry Ross Perot

28. “To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all that is possible to know about that business.” – J. Paul Getty

29. “Before honor is humility.” – Proverbs 15: 33

30. “Never be ashamed! There’s some who will hold it against you, but they are not worth bothering with.” – J.K. Rowling

31. “He that observes the wind shall not sow and he that regards the clouds shall not reap.” – The Holy Bible

32. “Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.” – John D. Rockefeller

33. “Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.” – Bill Gates

“But thou should remember the Lord your God; for it is he that gives the power to make wealth.” – Deuteronomy 8: 18

35. “When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.” – Mary Kay Ash

36. “Follow your instincts, that’s where true wisdom manifest itself.” – Oprah Winfrey

37. “I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard.” – Estee Lauder

“If you are moving, even fire will not hurt you. If you are standing still near the fire, even though you are not in the fire, the heat will eventually get to you.” – Rich Dad

39. “Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don’t be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You cannot have success without failure.” – Rich Dad

40. “The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.” – Robert Kiyosaki

41. “All my life, people have said that I wasn’t going to make it.” – Ted Turner

42. “When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.” – Ted Turner

43. “Share your success and help others succeed. Give everyone a chance to have a piece of the pie. If the pie’s not big enough, make a bigger pie.” – Dave Thomas

44. “Aim for the moon. If you miss it, you may hit a star.” – W. Clement Stone

45. “Success is about creating value.” – Candice Carpenter

46.”Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.” – Simon Cowell

47. “You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.” – Trip Hawkins

48. “I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations….I have built my own factory on my own ground.” – Madame C. J. Walker

“Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” – Ray Kroc

“Now this is not the end. It is not the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.” – Winston Churchill