No one said running a business was easy, and in fact, it can be downright tough at times. There will be good days and bad days, but the key is to keep pushing through no matter what. Even when things are tough, it’s important to find ways to inspire yourself. One great way to do that is by looking for motivation in quotes from successful entrepreneurs who have been where you are now. So if you’re feeling down, or just need a little inspiration, take a look at this compilation of separation quotes from some of the most successful entrepreneurs in history. You never know what you might find that will give you the boost you need to keep moving forward.

The best separation quotes

1. Society’s dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place–the place of our separation, our distinction–that much of his poetry occupies. — Tomas Transtromer

2. When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn’t the distance or the separation that there is now. — Van Morrison

3. It’s odd to see how no one is really human to us until we talk to them and realize there’s barley any separation between who we are and who they are. — Penelope Douglas, Corrupt

4. But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government. — Roy Moore

5. Separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible. — Werner Heisenberg

6. The only greater [evil] than separation… [is] living under a government of discretion. — Thomas Jefferson

7. Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit. — Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

8. Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery. — Swami Vivekananda

9. It’s odd to see how no one is really human to us until we talk to them and realize there’s barley any separation between who we are and who they are. — Penelope Douglas, Corrupt

10. I don’t think meals have any business being deductible. I’m for separation of calories and corporations. — Ralph Nader

11. Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery. — Swami Vivekananda

12. When there is nothing to catchAnd nothing is catching you, You are free;From all your separations! — Sayantan Sen, Oneness–A collection of poetry

13. By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void. — Oscar Wilde

14. The songs of separation Are not always full of painOften they talk of the fondnessThat flows in the lovers’ veins… — Neelam Saxena Chandra

15. Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit. — Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

16. I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it. — Rumi

17. You see, there really is no separation between you and everyone else. — Pema Chodron

18. My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

19. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you? You feel the separation from the Beloved. Invite Him to fill you up, embrace the fire. — Rumi

20. The only way for peace between the races is a separation of the races. — Muhammad Ali

21. We have so much separation between feeling the emotional and physical side of sex. — Natalie Portman

22. They say there is six degrees of separation between you and another person. However, when people are praying for you there are only two degrees. — Shannon L. Alder

23. Energy is the belief in a separation and that which creates and keeps the illusion alive. — Vivian Amis

24. Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation. — Tennessee Williams

25. Pink Floyd is like a marriage that’s on a permanent trial separation. — Rick Wright

26. …sin is separation. — Paul Tillich, The Essential Tillich

27. When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn’t the distance or the separation that there is now. — Van Morrison

28. Erecting the ‘wall of separation between church and state’… is absolutely essential in a free society. — Thomas Jefferson

29. I hate flossing, I wish I just had one long curvy tooth. They didn’t have to make separations for me. — Mitch Hedberg

30. Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery. — Swami Vivekananda

31. No separation of distance — no separation of time

32. For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation. — Mary Schmich

33. Sometimes I feel like we are the same, but sometimes, like right now, I feel the separation between our personalities like I’ve just run into a wall. — Veronica Roth, Allegiant

34. My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

35. Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation. — Tennessee Williams

36. One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains. — Ray Stannard Baker

37. Separation comes from preparation. — Russell Wilson

38. Pink Floyd is like a marriage that’s on a permanent trial separation. — Rick Wright

39. ‘forget ”six degrees of separation” today it’s ”six degrees of CONNECTION.’ — Morag Barrett, Cultivate: The Power of Winning Relationships

40. I don’t think meals have any business being deductible. I’m for separation of calories and corporations. — Ralph Nader

41. Society’s dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place–the place of our separation, our distinction–that much of his poetry occupies. — Tomas Transtromer

42. Pink Floyd is like a marriage that’s on a permanent trial separation. — Rick Wright

43. If bye is meant to be separation, why do people say good bye. — Rushabh Patel

44. All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

45. The only greater [evil] than separation… [is] living under a government of discretion. — Thomas Jefferson

46. But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government. — Roy Moore

47. The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law. — Robert Bork

48. Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. — W.S. Merwin

49. No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her. — Scott Spencer, Endless Love

50. When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn’t the distance or the separation that there is now. — Van Morrison

Conclusion

In conclusion, separation can be hard but it can also be a positive experience. It can be a way to open up new possibilities and to pursue a new path that you may not have considered before. Remember, the only way to truly move forward is to let go of what was and embrace what can be.