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.

1. Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit. — M. Scott Peck
2. When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you’re either going to sink or you’re going to swim. — Tom Cruise
3. A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once. — Shigeru Miyamoto
4. Problems, weaknesses, setbacks, regrets and mistakes teach you if you’re willing to learn, or they punish you if you’re not. — Ralph Marston
5. God uses all the problems and challenges of life for divine purposes. — Sunday Adelaja
6. Meet regularly with your business team and brainstorm. Intricate business problems are mostly resolved at brainstorming sessions. — Richard Branson
7. I don’t think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It’s perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man. — Toni Morrison
8. God had no problem with the man’s separateness, his uniqueness, or his wholeness. — Myles Munroe
9. In the life of a nation, few ideas are more dangerous than good solutions to the wrong problems. — Robert Reich
10. You are the creator of your experience, therefore: all problems must be met within You. — Vivian Amis, The Essentials of Life
11. They said I ignored the drug problem. Well, I gave speeches on drugs, I wrote books on drugs. I did darn near everything on drugs! — Pat Paulsen
12. There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance. — Neil Degrasse Tyson
13. The ‘free–floating intellectual’ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect. — Noam Chomsky
14. Never let life’s hardships disturb you … no one can avoid problems not even saints or sages. — Nichiren Daishonen
15. There are plenty of skills I’ve learned from playing video games. It’s more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you’re using your brain. — Shaun White
16. Be a problem solver — be a peace builder.
17. The problem is that our ideas are sticky: once we produce a theory, we are not likely to change our minds…. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
18. 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
19. I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind’s problems. — Martin Luther King
20. Your only real problem is mortality! No religion can solve this problem, but science can do! — Mehmet Murat ildan
21. I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can’t tell anyone. — Meg Cabot, Princess in Love
22. Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. — Nikola Telsa, The Problem of Increasing Human Energy
23. I was a sober as the next guy. The only problem is the next guy was Dean Martin — Red Skelton
24. ‘humor is the healthy way of feeling ”distance” between one’s self and the problem a way of standing off and looking at one’s problems with perspective.’ — Rollo May
25. When I’m writing solitude feels very good. But when I’m not writing it feels lonely… Having a big family solves that problem. — Michael Chabon
26. It is a big problem and so I don’t know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari. — Valentino Rossi
27. Who cares about all the problems and barriers, nothing matters but the Spectacular Now. — Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now
28. I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem and not as a police problem. — Wagner Moura
29. The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can’t change your mind, because God sure isn’t going to change His. — Roger Ebert
30. Kindness solves more problems than diplomacy, wealth, intelligence, clout, force, law, and dominion combined. — Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
31. Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced. — Terence Mckenna
32. Don’t duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done–it’s downhill from then on. — Norman Vincent Peale
33. A woman sees a problem and sets about solving it, not analyzing it. — Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
34. I think about architecture all the time. That’s the problem. But I’ve always been like that. I dream it sometimes. — Zaha Hadid
35. The ongoing migration of persons to the United States in violation of our laws is a serious national problem detrimental to the interests of the United States. — Ronald Reagan
36. The problem is, I can’t tell what’s real anymore, and what’s made up. — Suzanne Collins
37. Nothing can stand in the way of the man who focuses his entire self on a problem. — Norman Vincent Peale
38. I’ve never met a problem a proper cupcake couldn’t fix. — Sarah Ockler, Bittersweet
39. There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem. — Pat Robertson
40. Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can’t resolve, or, dissolve. Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
41. General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else. — Marvin Minsky
42. We’ll have to send a doctor to him to clear up all these problems. — Vladimir Putin
43. Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life’s ethical problems. — Reinhold Niebuhr
44. When you can’t solve the problem, manage it. — Robert H. Schuller
45. You can’t have a healthy economy without sound money, which is why we’re on the verge of very serious economic problem. — Ron Paul
46. The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today. — Miguel de Icaza
47. Left unattended, problems only intensify. — Mary Kay Ash
48. If we could eliminate the concept of town and return to live in small villages, all world problems were solved. — Rossana Condoleo
49. I say what I feel. I try to be tactful, but I can’t not say what I feel. I have a really big problem with that. — Sherilyn Fenn
50. The grievance industry always seeks to blame other people while never finding a solution. That’s my problem with it, when solutions are there to be had. — Rush Limbaugh