Quotations offer wisdom and can be motivational. They are a source of knowledge and inspiration, as well as a reminder that somebody else has faced similar struggles and prevailed. This blog post is a compilation of some of the best reason quotes for entrepreneurs. Reading these will remind you why it is important to think rationally and keep your head clear in times of stress. After all, your business depends on it! So take a few minutes to read these quotes and let them sink in before getting back to work.
1. I’ve actually had a melody on my guitar since the day I learned how to play it, back when I was 7. And for some reason I can’t add lyrics to it. — Miley Cyrus
2. This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death. — Thomas Browne
3. Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true. — William Shakespeare
4. It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it. — Napoleon Bonaparte
5. This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest. — Robert Green Ingersoll
6. Selfrighteous creates wars more often than other reasons. — Toba Beta
7. There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. — Rebecca West
8. Find out the reason that commands you to write — see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart
9. I’m one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons. — Paul Walker
10. The voice of reason is small, but very persistent. — Sigmund Freud
11. Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy. — Terry Goodkind, Confessor
12. I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics. — Park Geun–hye
13. We don’t need to have somebody that’s gonna make sure they pay for our market bills. It’s like we have only one reason to love and that is for the real idea of love. — Stevie Nicks
14. All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God not a multitude of words heaped together. — Stephen Charnock
15. This has always been a man’s world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. — Simone de Beauvoir
16. I am like the heaven, like the moon, like a candle by your glow; I am all reason, all love, all soul, by your soul. — Rumi
17. I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work. — Muriel Spark, Loitering with Intent
18. Nothing like the pure, unpolluted air we get to breathe in these mountains, and nothing like being away from cities. — Preeti Shenoy, It Happens for a Reason
19. Everything happens for a reason and, something better will come along for me! — Selena Gómez
20. You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don’t have the right to abandon him just because he’s inconvenient or has trouble in school. — Michael Crichton
21. I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; one, that I have lost all the names, the other, that I have spent all the money. — Samuel Johnson
22. Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? — Robert Orben
23. Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music. — Teddy Wilson
24. But that is the way we are made: we don’t reason, where we feel; we just feel. — Mark Twain
25. People will Keep Digging in Your Past to find Reasons to convince themselves of letting you go. — Sami Abouzid
26. There are times when life’s ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed — Richard Wright
27. Sometimes, the common reason for fights in a strong relationship is only the lack of having attention from the loving one — Pawan Mehra
28. The ease with which moneyforgives bayonets and liesto justify the massacre with reasoned arguments — Xiaobo Liu, June Fourth Elegies
29. I stupidly memorize my credit card and use it about thrice weekly for online shopping. The only reason I don’t bankrupt myself is that I return about 75% of what I buy. — Mindy Kaling
30. My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory. — Nick Cave
31. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God — Thomas Jefferson
32. Unless you have a very good reason, never wake up anybody or anything! Let the sleeper sleep in peace. — Mehmet Murat ildan
33. The only reason why you were WWE Champion for a year, is because Triple H didn’t want to work Tuesdays. — Paul Heyman
34. I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. — Oscar Wilde
35. We get together with people because they’re the same or because they’re different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same reasons. — Nick Hornby, Juliet, Naked
36. For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men. — Steve Israel
37. The reason I’m a Yankee is that George Steinbrenner out hustled everybody else. — Reggie Jackson
38. The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. — Napoleon Hill
39. The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones. — Miles Davis
40. For it is the business of Ethics, I must insist, not only to obtain true results, but also to find valid reasons for them. — G.E. Moore, Principia Ethica
41. Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. — Thomas Browne
42. No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community. — Theodore Roosevelt
43. The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. — Thomas Wolfe
44. Remember, you are different than anyone else for a reason. A good reason. Find that reason and run with it. — Tay Jardine
45. The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. — Thomas B. Macaulay
46. I can’t reason when I’m around you. — Nely Cab, Marker of Hope
47. Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason. — Robert Bork
48. Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. — Voltaire
49. Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust–hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
50. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. — Virginia Woolf
Reason is the foundation of our lives. It is the ability to think critically and logically, and to use our knowledge to find solutions to the problems that we are presented with. Reason is an invaluable tool that helps us make sense of the world around us and gives us the power to shape our future. These quotes celebrate the importance of reason and remind us of the power we have when we use it. May they inspire us to think logically and make decisions that are rooted in reason.
