Career Quotes

Career Quotes

Do you need another job? Do you need a change in your career? If you need motivation to get the job you want, here are some motivational quotes to get you out of the rut.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. - Confucius

It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career. - Carlton Fisk

Work to become, not to acquire. - Elbert Hubbard

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it. - Katherine Whitehorn

I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan

If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission. - Unknown

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. - Confucius

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. - Alice Walker

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. - M. Scott Peck

If you don't feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated. - Paul F. Davis

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet. - Robert H. Schuller

The best way to predict the future is to create it. - Abraham Lincoln

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. - Thomas A. Edison

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. - Lou Holtz

I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. - Jon Stewart

Dreams are extremely important. You can't do it unless you imagine it. - George Lucas

If you can DREAM it, you can DO it. - Walt Disney

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire. - Johnny Carson

I cannot do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do. - Helen Keller

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. - Arthur Golden

Opportunities don't happen, you create them. - Chris Grosser

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. - Francis of Assisi

It's not the days in your life, but the life in your days that counts. - Brian White

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. - General George Patton

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

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.‘ - Anna Freud

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning. - Gloria Steinem

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up them, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

I was once afraid of people saying, ‘Who does she think she is?‘ Now I have the courage to stand and say, ‘This is who I am. - Oprah

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. - Mark Twain