As an entrepreneur, you know that success doesn’t come easy. It takes hard work, dedication, and a lot of routine. But sometimes it’s hard to stay motivated when things get tough. That’s why we’ve put together a compilation of some of our favorite quotes about routine.

1. Your morning routine generates a 10x return for good or for bad. Make it good. — Todd Stocker, Becoming The Fulfilled Leader
2. Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit. — Twyla Tharp
3. Sometimes all it takes to change your life is to change your routine. — Stephen Richards, How to Get Everything You Can Imagine: Volume 1: How Mind Power Works
4. I hate going to the gym and doing it the old–fashioned way. I hate anything that’s too straightforward, too routine, too familiar, and I get bored really, really quickly. — Rihanna
5. As I watched the sun began its daily routine, casting golden hue and illuminating cities, I wondered, ‘what an exemplary way to start my daily routine? — Val Uchendu
6. I’ve dropped a lot of race humor from my routines, not because I think it is in bad taste, but because I don’t want to be guilty of telling old jokes. — Nipsey Russell
7. The big things that come our way are … the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work. — William Feather
8. Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine. — Neil Degrasse Tyson
9. Her routine was as predictable as the rotation of the earth. — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees
10. I can’t change your life till I can get you to change your daily routine. — Mike Murdock
11. The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality. — Tammy Baldwin
12. I hate going to the gym and doing it the old–fashioned way. I hate anything that’s too straightforward, too routine, too familiar, and I get bored really, really quickly. — Rihanna
13. A new calling can beckon us away from comfortable routine and from competencies already acquired. — Neal A. Maxwell
14. I hate going to the gym and doing it the old–fashioned way. I hate anything that’s too straightforward, too routine, too familiar, and I get bored really, really quickly. — Rihanna
15. By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine. — Twyla Tharp
16. And to those who believe that adventures are i say try routine: it kills you far more quickly. — Paulo Coelho
17. Routinely, when I finish a book, I think ‘What will I do? Where will I get an idea?’ And a kind of low–level panic sets in. — Philip Roth
18. My beauty routine stays the same; I try to be well hydrated and rested. Most importantly, I always try to make a little time for myself! — Miranda Kerr
19. Our society routinely steals from the future. — Sue Leaf, The Bullhead Queen: A Year on Pioneer Lake
20. Routines and daily habits aren’t restrictive. They provide structure, direction, and opportunities for spontaneity. — Mensah Oteh
21. Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.’– — William Arthur Ward
22. I’m a golf junkie. I watch every tournament pretty much. I watch interviews. I watch warm–up routines. All that stuff. — Stephen Curry
23. The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightening bold of inspiration, maybe more. And this routine is available to everyone. — Twyla Tharp
24. So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person’s genius is confined to a very few hours. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
25. In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine. — Noam Chomsky
26. People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I’m physically and mentally ready–prepared for the game. — Nomar Garciaparra
27. Sometimes, all it takes to change your life is to change your routine. — Stephen Richards
28. By changing the way you do routine things you allow a new man to grow inside you. — Paulo Coelho
29. You should break away from unproductive routines that do not positively benefit you or make your life better. — Tasha Hoggatt, What Makes You Great?
30. I like to stretch myself and push the envelope, so anything that’s new or different or not of my daily routine, I am so for. — Merle Dandridge
31. Your morning routine generates a 10x return for good or for bad. Make it good. — Todd Stocker, Becoming The Fulfilled Leader
32. Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying. — J. Paul Getty
33. Grand Illusion’ and ‘Rules of the Game’ are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be. — Roger Ebert
34. Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens. — Walter Lippmann
35. The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life. — Mason Cooley
36. I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely find a quiet place, open my diary and write something in it. — Orhan Pamuk
37. The secret to your future is hidden in your daily routine. You have to be self–disciplined to spend your time wisely. — Michelle Moore, Selling Simplified
38. He is always on the brink of suicide… because he seeks salvation through the routine formulas suggested to him by the society in which he lives. — Umberto Eco
39. Practical’ people are as a rule nothing more than men sunk into the groove of daily routine, unable to emerge from a narrow circle of antiquated ideas. — Theodor Herzl
40. Comfort zone: simply means the routine of one’s daily life–it is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure. — Roy T. Bennett
41. Great people become great due to the framework, routines and habits they have set for themselves — Sunday Adelaja
42. Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed ‘Dr. Strangelove’ as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece. — Tim Cahill
43. I’ve been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It’s like a daily routine. — Taylor Swift
44. Grand Illusion’ and ‘Rules of the Game’ are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be. — Roger Ebert
45. I regard the USA mass population routinely flip–flopping between the Republican and Democratic parties as a form of insanity. — Steven Magee
46. I routinely inform people when I meet them that I am like a real life version of Dory the fish, as I am very forgetful and have problems tracking conversations. — Steven Magee
47. Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time. — Zadie Smith, White Teeth
48. A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods. — William James
50. Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines. — Rihanna