I've been successfully jobless for over a decade. Like all entrepreneurs I've experienced many ups and downs. I had some awesome successes and some painful failures. Along my journey I've collected many quotes that inspire me to get through hard times and take my life to the next level.
Here are my 20 favorite quotes to level up your life:
"If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail." Ben Franklin
"Hustle until your haters ask if you're hiring." Steve Maraboli
"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable." Roman philosopher
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." Albert Einstein
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." R. Buckminster Fuller
"There's no such thing as failure. There's only feedback." Michael Hyatt
"Fear is not real. It is a product of thoughts you create. Do not misunderstand me. Danger is very real. But fear is a choice." Will Smith in After Earth
"The first person to do anything was doing the impossible." Unknown
"If you want an awesome life, do something awesome." Meme
"Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with the unprepared." Richest Man in Babylon
"Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers." Tony Robbins
"If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late." Reid Hoffman
"A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild." James Allen As a Man Thinketh
"Wealth grows whereever men exert energy." Richest Man in Babylon
"Entrepreneurship is about solving problems, not fame or money." Ashton Kutcher
"If you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong." Dr. Ron Paul
"A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread." Henry David Thoreau
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." Albert Einstein
"A failure is man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience." Elbert Hubbard
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." Chinese proverb