Are you an entrepreneur who is feeling bogged down by the day-to-day operations of your business? If so, you might find relief and inspiration in some of the following illusion quotes. They remind us that success is not always what it seems, and that chasing illusions can be more rewarding than achieving conventional goals. So take a few minutes to read through these quotes, and see if they help you get back on track to pursuing your entrepreneurial dreams.

1. What kills leadership growth isn’t ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge. — Orrin Woodward
2. No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. — William Faulkner
3. Love is an illusion, but I would willingly fall for it if I could believe in it. — Sylvia Plath
4. The whole thing’s illusion, [Jacob], and there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s what people want from us. It’s what they expect. — Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
5. What kills leadership growth isn’t ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge. — Orrin Woodward
6. The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion. — Mumia Abu–Jamal
7. These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper — only the brave deserve the fair
8. It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. — W. Somerset Maugham
9. Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached. — Simone Weil
10. Sometimes love is nothing more than a sticky web — illusions spun from clever minds and bitter hearts.
11. He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. — Mikhail Bakunin
12. If you are not careful you will end up living the illusions that others have created for you. — Steven Redhead, The Solution
13. The believing we do something when we do nothing isthe first illusion of tobacco. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I’m telling you that’s a pretty illusion. — Nancy Kress, Steal Across the Sky
15. Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment. — Sheri Holman, The Mammoth Cheese
16. Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory. — William Faulkner
17. Truths are as much a matter of questions as answers. — Ozzie Zehner, Green Illusions
18. Survival is an ancient dream Life is nothing but an everlasting illusionNothing is RealDon’t believe in illusion, Remember me, I am here … — Rixa White
19. I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong–I have audio illusions. — Tom Waits
20. The mind’s best trick is the illusion that it exists. — Marty Rubin
21. Safety is only an illusion when evil is on the hunt. I can’t stand by and watch. I have to act. It isn’t easy to absolve one’s self of guilt. — Terry Goodkind, The First Confessor
22. Learn in good time to recognize disillusionment, so as to continue living your life according to the will of the Lord — Sunday Adelaja
23. He focused on the world before him — the illusions and the mysteries of the future haunted his eyes.
24. The American Dream became America’s god — wealth and abundance have become the measure of America’s success. But–as recent events have shown–we have been living an illusion.
25. There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues. That is all. — Rebecca West
26. How many truths pass wrecking through the Illusion of Life, but none of them is an absolute truth therefore the real truth! — Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
27. Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness. — Thomas Merton
28. Discouragement is disillusioned self–love, and self–love may be love for my devotion to Jesus–not love for Jesus Himself. — Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
29. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content. — Robert E. Howard
30. The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study’s sake. There’s no right or wrong, no pass or fail. — Tahir Shah, Sorcerer’s Apprentice
31. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion. — Sylvia Plath
32. An idyllic childhood is probably illusion. — Martha Grimes, The Lamorna Wink
33. He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. — Mikhail Bakunin
34. There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep. — Saul Bellow
35. Tradition is the illusion of permanance. — Woody Allen
36. Radical leftist] are never been a majority. We just fell for one of the greatest illusions in modern politics. — Rush Limbaugh
37. The world of numbers and words is odd. A number is the only word that doesn’t lie and words can be very deceitful — they create the illusion that a large number hides a great word.
38. The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth–all that is illusion. All that endures is character. — O. J. Simpson
39. Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending. — Ray Bradbury
40. Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness. — Thomas Merton
41. Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do. — Terence Mckenna
42. One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion — Voltaire
43. What kills leadership growth isn’t ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge. — Orrin Woodward
44. The American Dream became America’s god — wealth and abundance have become the measure of America’s success. But–as recent events have shown–we have been living an illusion.
45. Masks are the order of the day–and the least I can do is cultivate the illusion that I am gay, serene, not hollow and afraid. — Sylvia Plath
46. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. — Steve Jobs
47. Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
48. Authenticity is a powerful force. Don’t ruin it with an illusion. — K. Melissa Kennedy, The Innovation Revolution: Discover the Genius Hiding in Plain Sight
49. No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere. — Sigmund Freud
50. It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse. — Robert Louis Stevenson