As an entrepreneur, you know that starting and running a business is not easy. It takes hard work, determination, and resilience. These qualities are what make entrepreneurs successful. Here are some inspiring quotes to help motivate you on your journey.

1. Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. — The Undertaker

2. Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. The surest way to lose at any endeavor is to quit. — Morgan Freeman

4. Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest. — Samuel Johnson

5. The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor. — Samuel Johnson

7. Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth. — Samuel Johnson

8. Perfection in any endeavor is an aiming point. Let the desire for it push you, but don’t let the absence of it stop you. — Ralph Marston

9. All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art’s sake. — William Butler Yeats

10. The pursuit of historical revelance is an under appreciated endeavor. — Michael Dwinnell

11. Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit. — Nikos Kazantzakis

12. Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it’s an athletic endeavor. — Stephen Colbert

13. There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. (…) However bad life may seem (…) While there’s life, there is hope. — Stephen Hawking

14. A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root. — Napoleon Bonaparte

15. All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art’s sake. — William Butler Yeats

16. There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. (…) However bad life may seem (…) While there’s life, there is hope. — Stephen Hawking

17. In creative endeavors luck is a skill. — Twyla Tharp

18. History is a tale, Franklin came to believe, not of immutable forces but of human endeavors. — Walter Isaacson

19. Whether you like it or not, a child really connects you to that time when everything’s new. It’s so important–not just for artistic endeavors, but for humanity. — Tim Burton

20. You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job. — Zig Ziglar

21. The surest way to lose at any endeavor is to quit. — Morgan Freeman

22. You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job. — Zig Ziglar

23. The greatest thing ever in the history of the world and of all of human endeavor from time immemorial is stories. — Rainn Wilson, The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy

24. Space is not an enterprise that belongs to the U.S. or to Russia or to China–it is a human endeavor and experience. And that’s as it should be. — Scott Carpenter

25. Every man’s endeavor was imbued with responsibility — Philip Roth

26. What is writing, after all, except fumbling in darkness endeavoring to light a candle? — Peggy Toney Horton

27. I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor. — Steven Pinker

28. The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money–grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility. — Marlon Brando

29. The pursuit of historical revelance is an under appreciated endeavor. — Michael Dwinnell

30. Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

31. I wished to stifle the unhappy passion which burned in my soul — but is love an illness to be cured? All I endeavored to oppose to it merely fanned its flames.

32. Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind. — Spike Lee

33. Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. — Orison Swett Marden

34. You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined courageous and hardworking. … Do not fear to pioneer to venture down new paths of endeavor. — Ralph J. Bunche

35. Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics. — Thomas Jefferson

36. Meditation is really a non–doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.–Jon Kabat — Zinn

37. If a person wants to be a true Christian, then he will endeavor to know Jesus and press towards being like Him in all things in order to reveal Him to the world. — Sunday Adelaja

38. A writer may not know the way at first; but if he endeavors to complete his task, he carves a path with his story, a knowledge shortcut. — Susan J. McIntire

39. Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth. — Samuel Johnson

40. He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber. — Samuel Johnson

41. Meditation is really a non–doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.–Jon Kabat — Zinn

42. Whether you like it or not, a child really connects you to that time when everything’s new. It’s so important–not just for artistic endeavors, but for humanity. — Tim Burton

43. If you cannot patiently bear correction, endeavor to avoid fault. — Norm Macdonald

44. He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber. — Samuel Johnson

45. There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. (…) However bad life may seem (…) While there’s life, there is hope. — Stephen Hawking

46. While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it. — Thomas Jefferson

47. Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

48. Every man’s endeavor was imbued with responsibility — Philip Roth

49. Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best. — Robert Browning

50. All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art’s sake. — William Butler Yeats

Take the time to look at the great quotes about endeavor. They can help motivate you to reach for your goals and take the necessary steps to get there. Endeavor is a powerful force that can lead you to success, and it is essential to keep your focus and work hard. So, take the time to remember these quotes and strive for greatness.