There are a lot of things that go into being a successful entrepreneur. You need to have the drive and ambition to succeed, and you also need to have a good business sense. But most importantly, you need to be able to stay motivated and focused on your goals. That’s where these fundamental quotes come in. They’ll help keep you inspired and moving forward, no matter what challenges you face.
The best fundamental quotes
1. I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism. — Ted Cruz
2. America is a very fundamentalist society. It’s like Iran in the degree of fanatic religious commitment. — Noam Chomsky
3. We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people’s wrongness. — Pema Chodron
4. Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. — Michael Eric Dyson
5. Selfish Apologies Aren’t Apologies at All — Miles Anthony Smith, Why Leadership Sucks™ Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership
6. For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing. — Thomas Merton
7. Climate change has taken on political dimensions. That’s odd because I don’t see people choosing sides over E=Mc2 or other fundamental facts of science. — Neil Degrasse Tyson
8. ‘fundamentalists offer us a ”loving” God who is some kind of divine stalker.’ — Robert M. Price
9. Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles. — Pierre de Coubertin
10. One is that we were betraying our most fundamental values, and, two, that legal skills could help make things better, could help to challenge what was going on.’ 3 — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
11. The sacred attitude is, then, one of deep and fundamental respect for the real in whatever new form it may present itself. — Thomas Merton
12. We win our games in practice. We learn and follow the fundamentals of our game better than anyone in the league. All of our games are won in practice. — Vince Lombardi
13. Most of the time we think we are thinking — but actually we are wrestling between fundamental crisis of two things: consciousness and conditioning.
14. What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?’ ‘Stories. And they give me hope. — Neil Gaiman
15. Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle. — Yusuf Hamied
16. There’s no perfect coach in the world. Coaches are human, too. Mistakes are made. But, fundamentally, if you’re sound, you eliminate as many mistakes as possible. — Wayne Gretzky
17. When those types of situations[like abuse] begin to occur in your life–I had bought in from a very early age that fundamentally something must be wrong with me. — Paula White
18. Fundamentalism is rigorously and systematically used to indoctrinate and subjugate young minds. It is a contraceptive designed to prevent intellectual fertilization. — Stephen Jay Gould
19. Don’t Give Someone Responsibility without Requisite Authority — Miles Anthony Smith, Why Leadership Sucks™ Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership
20. For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing. — Thomas Merton
21. You Either Trust Someone or You Don’t — Miles Anthony Smith, Why Leadership Sucks™ Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership
22. The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it. — Thomas Hobbes
23. We win our games in practice. We learn and follow the fundamentals of our game better than anyone in the league. All of our games are won in practice. — Vince Lombardi
24. Organizational democracy will begin to become a fundamental management practice to update the hierarchical command–control systems. — Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
25. One’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper. — Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
26. Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion. — Xun Zi
27. It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science. — Peter Agre
28. Your endurance is strongly influenced byyour fundamental myth about the fighting. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
29. We have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist. — Warren Buffett
30. There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong. — Martin Luther King
31. The basic idea is to shove all fundamental difficulties onto the neutron and to do quantum mechanics in the nucleus. — Werner Heisenberg
32. Elasticity is a fundamental principle of perception, — Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep
33. Literacy is a fundamental life skill, one that serves as a portal to knowledge and a lifetime of opportunity. — Story Shares
34. This is a fundamental irony of most people’s lives. They don’t quite know what they want to do with their lives. Yet they are very active. — Ryan Holiday
35. A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in ‘systems’ cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness. — Vaclav Havel
36. There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die. — Stanley Kubrick
37. Neither care too much nor too little about the feedback of others. — Miles Anthony Smith, Why Leadership Sucks™ Volume 2: The Pain, Pitfalls, and Challenges of Servant Leadership Fundamentals
38. You Either Trust Someone or You Don’t — Miles Anthony Smith, Why Leadership Sucks™ Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership
39. A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions. — William Kingdon Clifford
40. This is a fundamental irony of most people’s lives. They don’t quite know what they want to do with their lives. Yet they are very active. — Ryan Holiday
41. If one comes to fundamentals then this is the most fundamental thing: the moment you are not, enlightenment is. With emptiness, the matter is settled. — Osho, The Secret of Secrets
42. The binding of reason and intuition is the fundamental crisis of the era we call humanity. Transcedence of duality is the key. — Phil Collins
43. Be a Strong Leader, Even If You Follow a Weak Leader — Miles Anthony Smith, Why Leadership Sucks™ Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership
44. Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life. — Thomas Sowell
45. We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness. — Tullian Tchividjian
46. An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental. — Thomas Jefferson
47. The Fundamentalist Religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones. — Martin Seligman
48. The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it. — Rob Bell
49. For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing. — Thomas Merton
50. Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them. — Plato, The Republic
Conclusion
We hope these quotes have inspired you to look more deeply into the concept of the fundamentals and to live your life with the fundamentals in mind. Remember, foundational principles and values are the building blocks of success, and when we remember that, we can achieve anything.