Freelancers often experience both positive and negative experiences throughout their careers. Freelancing can be challenging due to pursuing clients, meeting deadlines, and maintaining motivation. Engaging in the activity can provide significant benefits.
We have created a list of freelancing quotes from successful entrepreneurs, artists, and thinkers to keep you motivated and inspired. These words of wisdom can help you stay motivated and remember your initial reasons for becoming a freelancer when you feel like giving up.
- “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
- “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.
- “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
- “If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” – Steve Jobs.
- “Freelancing is a tough game, but the rewards are worth it. Just keep going, and never give up.” – Anonymous.
- “The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” – Charles Kingsleigh.
- “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” – Thomas Watson
- “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.” – Steve Jobs
- “The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that’s changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” – Mark Zuckerberg.
- “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain.
- “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man.” – Jay-Z.
- “Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt.
- “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill.
- “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
- “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean.
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson.
- “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra.
- “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain.
- “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso.
- “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis.
- “The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller
- “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon.
- “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson.
- “Success is not about the destination, it’s about the journey.” – Zig Ziglar.
- “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky.
- “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” – Bruce Feirstein.
- “The only way to achieve your dreams is to wake up and start working on them.” – Anonymous.
- “Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect.” – Zoey Sayward
- “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi.
- “If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.” – Anonymous.
- “The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.” – Anonymous.
- “The expert in anything was once a beginner.” – Helen Hayes
- “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” – Jordan Belfort
- “Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.” – Orison Swett Marden.
- “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill.
- “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar.
- “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius.
- “The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something.” – Seth Godin.
- “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
- “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents; start charging for it.” – Kim Garst.
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” – Steve Jobs.
- “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson.