No one said being an entrepreneur would be easy, and these dark quotes compilation from some of history’s most successful entrepreneurs proves it. From facing constant rejection to dealing with crippling self-doubt, these entrepreneurs have seen it all. So if you’re feeling down about your business, take a few minutes to read through these quotes and you’ll feel inspired (or at least motivated) to keep going.

1. Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that’s the light. — Mitch Albom, The First Phone Call from Heaven
2. You are gone! Sky looks dark, ground looks dirty and I feel lost. — M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
3. We must believe we are capable of transcending evil, of not needing to hide in the darkness or surrender to our basest fears. — Michael R. French, Once Upon a Lie
4. Lot — kresley Cole, Dreams of a Dark Warrior
5. For you to be able to turn on the light in the darkness, you have to live in the light. — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance
6. Why do we fear the dark as unavoidable defeat when it alone is constant, and we’d starve if it stopped watering the lawn of dreams. — Rosmarie Waldrop, Lawn of Excluded Middle
7. You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality, you don’t want to do those films every year because they’re taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes. — Vin Diesel
8. Who are we without our memories? — Marta Acosta, Dark Companion
9. You’d think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subtle clue that nobody wanted him around. — Rick Riordan
10. The light within the darkness–you’ve lost sight of it. — Shiro Amano, Kingdom Hearts, Vol. 1
11. At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the time to show oneself, the time of fulfillment. — Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers
12. The doctor was a private man, engaged in a dark and dangerous business, and could ill afford the prying eyes and gossiping tongue of the servant class. — Rick Yancey, The Monstrumologist
13. Instead of cursing the darkness, try to fix the lamp. — محمد عبد الرحمن العريفي, Enjoy Your Life
14. A heart filled with light will always be in the middle of darkness. But, once it shines more brightly, there’s nothing to be afraid. You, are the one who will conquer it. — Y.K. Raikou
15. Democracy’s fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages! — Oliver Gaspirtz
16. Praying in a Temple is like Lighting a Candle. One kills the ignorance and the other kills the darkness . — gaurav rao
17. When I was in Darkness, I could find my Fullness — Purushothaman Kollam
18. Day full–blown and splendid–day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter, The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness. — Walt Whitman
19. So give me hope in the darkness that I will see the light. — Mumford
20. There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife. — Neil Gaiman
21. ‘but it doesn’t take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.””It might to keep it open.’ — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
22. In light, there is no darkness; and in darkness, there is no light. — Matshona Dhliwayo
23. Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places. — Veronica Roth
24. The further you descend into a pit, the darker things appear. You can’t keep digging to find the light. — Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
25. My path will weaveThe way you sayThere is no doubtYou’ll create the way — William O’Brien, Peter: A Darkened Fairytale
26. Tumbling into a dark, Lewis Carroll labyrinth of filth, pursuing a white rabbit of smut! — Russell Brand
27. Whether you are lost in the darkness or dance in the light is entirely up to you. — Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
28. Your spiritual path is decided by your vision and accomplished by your consistency. — Samuel T. Padmore, Invading the Kingdom of Darkness: Rescuing Families and Nations
29. Sailing heart–ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright. — Neil Young
30. Sometimes the bridges you burn light the way out of your darkness, but the memory of the blaze will be burned into your heart and mind forever. — Shannon L. Alder
31. She walked with darkness dripping off her shoulders, I’ve seen ghosts brighter than her soul. — VaZaki Nada
32. Engineer is the one who thinks Dark Fantasy is a condom and not a biscuit — Subhasis Das, I.T. Hurts
33. She was the kind of girl who wore dark lipstick and didn’t need to speak a word to seduce you. — Stephen F. Campbell
34. ‘you can make a lot of money with a good cat.”–Ty Warner’ — Zac Bissonnette, The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute
35. Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. — Sun Tzu, The Art of War
36. Man dies of cold, not of darkness. — Miguel de Unamuno
37. I’m playing dark history. It’s beyond black. I’m dealing with the dark things of the cosmos. — Sun Ra
38. Money. The dark obsession of the human race. — Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order
39. A few fires flickered, plumes of dark smoke marring the ruby sky. — Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses
40. I guess what they say is true. Anything the government wants to hide, they stick it in New Mexico — Maya Banks, Whispers in the Dark
41. The sky darkened, the air grew colder, but he didn’t mind. It didn’t occur to him to move. This was the right place. This was where he had wanted to be. — Pat Barker, Regeneration
42. Haven’t you ever thought of livingunconsciously like bears, sniffing the earth, close to pears and the mossy dark, far from human voices and — Nâzım Hikmet, Poems of Nazım Hikmet
43. Even from the darkest night songs of beauty can be born. — Mary Anne Radmacher
44. Her smile was as beautiful as the only star in a dark night… — shivangi lavaniya
45. You’ll never find light by analyzing the darkness. — Wayne Dyer
46. Let the sun shine on the darkness created by my Ignorance. One World One identity. peace, liberty, and justice for all. — Mayur Ramgir
47. Made a decision. I will never let a sunny day happen without me again. Darkness is almost always guaranteed unless some strange thing happens. But the sun…?! Go get some. — Robin Caldwell
48. In misery’s darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour’d his groan, And lonely want retir’d to die. — Samuel Johnson
49. A beacon of light shining in a dark tunnel leads even the blind to safety — Wogu Donald
50. Darkness all around, smoke in between my fingers, all you have given me dear, sorrow and sadness to sing here. — Santosh Kalwar, A Very First Book Of Poems: Heartbreak