As an entrepreneur, you know that success is never guaranteed. You have to work hard and hustle to make your dreams a reality. That’s why it’s important to stay motivated and inspired, especially when things get tough. Check out these inspiring Greek quotes to help you keep pushing forward.
1. ‘you are like the winged goddess from Greek mythology. As beautiful and soaring like an angel as her”. #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion:’ — Olga Goa
2. The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. — Stella Adler
3. Sanskrit has ninety–six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one. — Robert Johnson
4. ‘there’s a saying, ” Aeneas said: ”Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts.” He spoke wryly. ”Horses, particularly.’ — Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavinia
5. And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on ‘Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt’ had won the ten–dollar prize in Practical Theology. — Sinclair Lewis
6. The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center. — Stephen Gardiner
7. I hate Hera. — Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson’s Greek Heroes
8. If I was a Greek citizen I’d be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people. — Nigel Farage
9. If the ethical–that is, social morality–is the highest … then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories. — Soren Kierkegaard
10. I hate Hera. — Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson’s Greek Heroes
11. So, you invite a wild rabbit living in Italy to a party on the island of Crete. What’s it supposed to do, swim there? Its little tux would get wet. — Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods
12. I’m Greek. My body produces feta cheese. — Zach Galifianakis
13. Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. — Thomas Jefferson
14. I’m Greek. My body produces feta cheese. — Zach Galifianakis
15. Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks. — Winston Churchill
16. Since the Word became flesh (John 1.14), heaven and earth remain indissolubly joined. — Stephen S. Smalley, The Revelation to John: A Commentary on the Greek Text of the Apocalypse
17. So live your life that those who speak ill of you will not be believed. — one of the ancient Greeks I’m on a hunt to find which one.
18. Greece isn’t a democracy now it’s run through a troika–three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can’t do. — Nigel Farage
19. Jocasta:so clear in this case were the oracles, so clear and false. Give them no heed, I say;what God discovers need of, easilyhe shows to us himself. — Sophocles, The Complete Greek Tragedies
20. . . . when a woman has a husbandAnd you’ve got none, Why should she take advice from you?Even if you can quote Balzac and ShakespeareAnd all them other highfalutin’ Greeks. — Meredith Willson
21. I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths–anybody’s myths. But it was created for a rational age. — Tom Wolfe
22. I am what libraries and librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets. — B. K. Sandwell
23. Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts. — Oliver Stone
24. Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism. — Oscar Wilde
25. We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front. — Winston Churchill
26. I thought I was attractive when I shot ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding.’ Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them. — Nia Vardalos
27. Hero, ‘ he said softly, in a manner that was much like his father’s. ‘Vengeance and glory are the ways of the Greeks and the Trojans. We are of the Herdsmen. — Sulari Gentill, Chasing Odysseus
28. I’m Greek. My body produces feta cheese. — Zach Galifianakis
29. Word of the day–kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled. — Peggy Noonan
30. And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on ‘Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt’ had won the ten–dollar prize in Practical Theology. — Sinclair Lewis
31. This coming from the god who zinged Guinevere and Lancelot while King Arthur was away slaying dragons. — Tai, Cupid’s Academy: Argus’ Big Fat Greek Wedding Ring
32. ‘helios thought he looked pretty hot, and he had an annoying habit of calling the sun his ”chick magnet.’ — Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods
33. Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one. — Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
34. If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three–wine, food, and art–as a way of enhancing life. — Robert Mondavi
35. I thought I was attractive when I shot ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding.’ Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them. — Nia Vardalos
36. Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism. — Oscar Wilde
37. But for my own part it was Greek to me. — William Shakespeare
38. Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one. — Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
39. Don’t trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts.–Equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes — Virgil
40. Word of the day–kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled. — Peggy Noonan
41. I fear that there will be no neat ending to this, in the manner of the old Greek plays. Where the Gods descend, and all is explained, and tidied away. — Paul McAuley, Something Coming Through
42. So live your life that those who speak ill of you will not be believed. — one of the ancient Greeks I’m on a hunt to find which one.
43. The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center. — Stephen Gardiner
44. ‘doctor Who’ was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies. — Neil Gaiman
45. ‘you are like the winged goddess from Greek mythology. As beautiful and soaring like an angel as her”. #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion’ — Olga Goa
46. In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
47. Sanskrit has ninety–six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one. — Robert Johnson
48. I thought I was attractive when I shot ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding.’ Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them. — Nia Vardalos
49. Something has got to hold it together. I’m saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue. — Tom Robbins
50. If I was a Greek citizen I’d be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people. — Nigel Farage