If you’re an entrepreneur, you know that problems are a daily reality. We’ve all heard the saying, “If it was easy, everyone would do it.” Well, that’s especially true for entrepreneurs. So how do we deal with these problems? We find inspiration in quotes from others who have faced and overcome similar challenges. Here is a compilation of some of our favorite problem quotes to help you power through your next obstacle.

The best problem quotes

1. The problem with religion, because it’s been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation. — Sam Harris

2. Volley is tackling and solving one of the most difficult and important problems in machine learning: extracting knowledge from unstructured information. — Paul Walker

3. Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe. — Thomas Sowell

4. I like playing characters with internal problems. — Michael Eklund

5. Make sure that you are a part of the solution not of the problem — عبد الكريم بكار

6. Optimists anticipate problems, welcome them, and challenge them. Thus, eventually they defeat their problems. — RVM

7. My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions — Swami Vivekananda

8. It’s an ongoing problem, an ongoing situation, life is. It’s just life, and it never stops and it never will. You just be thankful for what you’ve got, and move on. — Willie Nelson

9. Framing the right problem is equally or even more important than solving it. — Pearl Zhu, Leadership Master: Five Digital Trends to Leap Leadership Maturity

10. We all have the same problems in relationships. — Phil Collins

11. Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about a problem. — Norman Vincent Peale

12. You can say whatever you want about me, I’m not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that’s a problem. — Zayn Malik

13. I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones–the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer. — Michelle Obama

14. We’ve had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set. — Peter Farrelly

15. If the cap ain’t on my Crest, if it’s squeezed from the middle and not the bottom, there’s a problem. — Tiny Tim

16. There should be a device which can detect when the person is getting angry and should not let that person speak till he/she calms down. This will solve so many problems. — Nauman Khan

17. After a few decades, everyone you know will be dead. Problem solved. — Stephenie Meyer

18. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life. — Matthew Mcconaughey

19. Courage is the ability to solve problems realistically in the presence of fear. — Stuart Walker

20. The problem isn’t that they all speak bad about me. The problem is that they all feel comfortable speaking bad about me to you. — Monika Ramzy

21. The problem isn’t too little money in political campaigns, but not enough. — Newt Gingrich

22. The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people’s problem. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

23. The real problem is that most people fear failure, and thus take no action. They really they should be fearful of their thoughts that cause their failure to take action! — Tony Dovale

24. Anybody that’s got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that’s how I’ve always looked at it. — Young Jeezy

25. When you are the problem, it’s hard to see it. — Marty Rubin

26. In Hollywood all marriages are happy. It’s trying to live together afterwards that causes problems. — Shelley Winters

27. For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism. — Walter Kaufmann

28. The only problem is time. — Seth MacFarlane

29. Change comes from a process of trials and wilderness experiences, problems and difficulties–it’s a process of transition from one quality level to another. — Sunday Adelaja

30. The money will always be a problem even if you’re a multi–billionaire. Be happy with what you do. — Sarvesh Jain, The Awakening Wisdom of Life: Probably the best Quotation Book in the world

31. Your biggest problem is you think you shouldn’t have them. ‘Cause problems are what make us grow. Problems are what sculpt our soul. Problems are what make us become more. — Tony Robbins

32. Even thought our problems had driven us up there, it was as if they had somehow, like Daleks, been unable to climb the stairs. — Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

33. There is no problem the mind of man can set that the mind of man cannot solve. — Samuel Johnson

34. And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life. — Oscar Wilde

35. I don’t have a drink problem. But if that was the case and doctors told me I had to stop, I’d like to think that I would be brave enough to drink myself into the grave. — Oliver Reed

36. The problem Christians have isn’t our belief in what God could do, but on what God should do. — Todd Stocker

37. The young always have the same problem–how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. — Quentin Crisp

38. Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions. — Mark Twain

39. There’s a simple solution to our traffic problems. We’ll have business build the roads, and government build the cars. — Will Rogers

40. It is our business to proffer solution to the problem of the society. — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

41. The problem with the world is that everyone does not have a brain, but everyone does have a tongue. — Raheel Farooq

42. If a poem is not memorable, there’s probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable. — Robert Morgan

43. The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power–we must have a dispersion of power. — Milton Friedman

44. Peace doesn’t mean that you will not have problems. Peace means that your problems will not have you. — Tony Evans

45. If you look around at America, that’s one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit. — Tom Petty

46. I have no problem gIvIng presIdent donald trump that answer If presIdent donald trump wants that answer. I thInk presIdent donald trump ImplIcItly understands that. — Rudy Giuliani

47. Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re–state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world. — Wole Soyinka

48. The problem was never my mind — it was a heart that could never hold all that it felt.

49. Collective solutions to individual problems is very seductive. It’s how Obama gets elected, by the way. — Rush Limbaugh

50. Great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude. — Sigmund Freud

Conclusion

To end, it is important to remember that no matter the problem, it can be overcome. The key is to stay positive, be proactive, and never give up. As Thomas Edison said, “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” As long as you keep trying, you will eventually find a solution. So don’t let your problems get in the way of progress. Use these inspiring quotes to stay motivated, and soon enough you’ll overcome any obstacle that comes your way.