As entrepreneurs and business owners, we all need a little motivation and inspiration to get us through the trying times. Here are some wonderful quotes about excelling in life, exemplary leadership and triumphing against all odds. These quotes are by our wise and successful predecessors will inspire each of us to live our lives fearlessly, creatively and passionately.

“My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had — everyday I’m learning something new.”

- Richard Branson

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

- Mark Twain

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

- Albert Schweitzer

“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”

-Mark Victor Hansen

“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”

-Napoleon Hill

“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

-Joshua Marine

“Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.”

 -Tony Hsieh

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

-Henry Ford

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

-Maya Angelou