As an entrepreneur, you know that quotes can be powerful sources of inspiration. They can help to remind you of your goals and keep you motivated when things get tough. That’s why, in this post, we’ve compiled a list of some of our favorite entrepreneurship quotes.

The best perfect quotes

1. I’m not perfect, I won’t be. But I’m a human with mistakes and I’m coexisting with my mistakes — Mohammed Sekouty

2. Her secret? It is every artist’s secret––passion. That is all. It is an open secret, and perfectly safe. Like heroism, it is inimitable in cheap materials. — Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

3. Beauty is not the flawless perfection of youth, but the fine lines, scars, and wisdom which only living can give you. — Reyna Pryde, Unique: A New Breed

4. When you finally accept that it’s OK not to have answers and it’s OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being. — Winona Ryder

5. Perfect, faultless, in ruins, yes, but perfect, nevertheless. — Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

6. ‎there is nothing sweeter than finding the right person to love and cherish and to share your hopes and dreams with. — Mary Lydon Simonsen, The Perfect Bride for Mr. Darcy

7. One day Jesus is going to come back and reign with perfect justice. There will be no questions about what’s happened. There will be perfect justice and I look forward to that day. — Trip Lee

8. Design a flight of stairs for the day a nervous bride descends them. Shape a window to frame a view of a specific tree on a perfect day in autumn. — Matthew Frederick

9. Ray Bradbury was not ahead of his time. He was perfectly of his time, and more than that: he created his time and left his mark on the time that followed. — Neil Gaiman

10. It’s not the things I don’t understand about the Bible that bother me — it’s the things I understand with perfect clarity and don’t comply with that keep me up at night.

11. There is no limit to how good you can get in pursuit of perfection. — Sachin Kumar Puli

12. Tell me to stop, Aby, and I will…It will be the hardest thing I’ll ever do, but if you don’t want this, now would be the time to tell me. — C.J. Wells, Perfect Plans

13. Look at your heart–flower and smile.You will be able to solve your most pressing problems. — Sri Chinmoy, Meditation: Man–perfection in God–satisfaction

14. She hated anyone who clung to the supernatural when the natural was perfectly serviceable. — Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night’s Dream, #2)

15. There is no such thing as failure — only lessons in perfection. It is what you do with those lessons that counts.

16. Being Uniquely YOU is the New Perfect. — Stephanie Lahart

17. For all its ridiculous imperfections, life is pretty damn perfect sometimes. — Sarah Ockler, The Book of Broken Hearts

18. It’s all about Perfection or the tolerance of Imperfection — Stijn Moreels

19. I always thought Camilla was the perfect love match with Charles. — Princess Diana

20. I got to thinking about relationships and partial lobotomies. Two seemingly different ideas that might just be perfect together–like chocolate and peanut butter. — Sarah Jessica Parker

21. We’re five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle. — Maynard James Keenan

22. Unlimited power may be available when two or more people coordinate their thoughts and actions in a spirit of perfect harmony for the attainment of a definite purpose. — Napoleon Hill

23. The perfect type of the man of action is the suicide. — William Carlos Williams

24. Nothing is perfect on the human stage. — Winston Churchill

25. If there is no one who is perfect, So there is no one better than you — Mohammed Sekouty

26. Things won’t go perfect. It’s all about how you adapt from those things and learn from mistakes. — Michael Phelps

27. I want everything to be perfect, if I’m going to do it. — Miley Cyrus

28. Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in. — Virginia Woolf

29. The passing clouds outside the window form the perfect backdrop for wavering frames I see moving inside my mind. — Pavitraa Parthasarathy

30. As you all know, I’m kind of a perfectionist. — Tiger Woods

31. If I can be perfectly blunt, his humanities teacher was an ass. — Tucker Elliot, The Day Before 9/11

32. Fear owns me because I let it. Because I obsess over it, name it, raise it, and nurture it to become perfect. It is one of the few things in my life that I can control. — Pete Wentz

33. Visionary decision–making happens at the intersection of intuition and logic. — Paul O’Brien, Great Decisions, Perfect Timing: Cultivating Intuitive Intelligence

34. It is the function of perfection to make one know one’s imperfection. — Saint Augustine

35. [t]hat mutual jealousy, that intolerantly keen edge of criticism, that irrational hunger for a beautiful perfection, that life and wisdom do presently and most mercifully dull. — H.G. Wells

36. I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect. — Spike Lee

37. Hunting is the last perfect thing. — Ted Nugent

38. One thing that annoys me is when you see women in these terrible and incredible situations with perfectly glossed lips. You’re not going to look good in the apocalypse. — Sarah Wayne Callies

39. Q: When is the perfect time? A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay–and it’s usually most wise to start today. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

40. Even when we strive for perfection, life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections. — Peter Prange, The Philosopher’s Kiss

41. If you put me on a pedestal, I will fall off because I can never achieve the perfection of your expectations. — D.S. Mixell

42. That’s what everyone forgets these days: there’s a fine line between sanity and insanity. Lots of people are on the edge. We can’t be in perfect balance all the time. — Poppy Adams

43. Start with yourself, strive for continuous improvement, perfection doesn’t happen right away — Napz Cherub Pellazo

44. All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made. — Virginia Woolf

45. I don’t believe in perfection. I don’t think there is such a thing. — Reese Witherspoon

46. I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success. — William Tecumseh Sherman

47. I would love to play alongside Wayne Rooney. He does the running of two or three players and makes a lot of space. We would be the perfect combination. — Zlatan Ibrahimovic

48. It’s stupid to expect perfection from bands because afterall they’re just human beings. — Neil Young

49. Don’t search for perfection nor seek the approval of others — your inner positive fulfillment doesn’t depend on them.

50. Real happiness comes from loving you’re inner self and excepting the things you can’t change. Flaws perfectly imperfect. — Shellie Palmer

Conclusion

We hope these quotes have inspired you to continue striving for perfection and to recognize that perfection is a journey, not a destination. As you continue on your journey to excellence, remember that it’s the small steps that make a big difference. So, take the time to celebrate your accomplishments, small or large.