100+ Inspirational Quotes on Career for a Successful Career
Quotes on Career
“I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career.” ―Lou Holtz
“If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.” ―Jane Fonda
“I’ve come to realize your career is all about the choices you make. Every single one matters.” ―Demi Lovato
“I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.”
“I feel ups and downs are a part of one’s career, and this totally depends on how you take it. You can either be knocked down by the negative things, or you can take it in a positive way and learn from it.” ―Deepika Padukone
“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” ―Sheryl Sandberg
“People don’t choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.” ―John Dos Passos
“For many people a job is more than an income – it’s an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life.”
“Your career is like a garden. It can hold an assortment of life’s energy that yields a bounty for you. You do not need to grow just one thing in your garden. You do not need to do just one thing in your career.” ―Jennifer Ritchie Payette
“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.” ―Buddha
“The word career is a divisive word. It’s a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.” ―Grace Paley
“A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.” ―James Bryce
“Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiseling and scraping and polishing.” ―BC Forbes
“In a person’s career, well, if you’re process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you’re more likely to be success. I often say ‘pursue excellence, ignore success.’ Success is a by-product of excellence.” ―Deepak Chopra
“To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.” ―Sister Mary Lauretta
“Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.” ―Ralph Waldo Emerson
“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.” ―Robert Frost
“You never stop earning when you do what you love.” ―Asha Tyson
“Analyzing what you haven’t got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.” ―Orison Swett Marden
“A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.” ―Marilyn Monroe
“The first essential in a boy’s career is to find out what he’s fitted for, what he’s most capable of doing and doing with a relish.” ―Charles M. Schwab
“The darkest day in a man’s career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.” ―Horace Greeley
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it.” ―Thomas Jefferson
“Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you’ll have more success than you could possibly have imagined.” ―Roger Caras
“If you don’t wake up in the morning excited to pick up where you left your work yesterday, you haven’t found your calling yet.” ―Mike Wallace
“The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.” ―Alan Greenspan
“What is it that you like doing? If you don’t like it, get out of it, because you’ll be lousy at it.”
“Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.” ―Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Vocation is the place where your deep gladness meets the world’s deep need.” ―Frederick Buechner
“The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.” ―Elbert Hubbard
“Make yourself necessary to the world and mankind will give you bread.” ―Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.”
“Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” ―Joseph Campbell
“Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; from discord find harmony; in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” ―Albert Einstein
“Don’t be offended when people don’t seem to get you. Not everyone recognizes brilliance.” ―Linda Poindexter
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” ―Mark Twain
“The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.” ―James Arthur Baldwin
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
“Take your work seriously and yourself lightly.” ―Bob Nelson
“You have a calling which exists only for you and which you can fulfill.” ―Dr. Naomi Stephan
“A career is like a house: it’s made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.” ―Andrea Bocelli
“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.” ―Gary Ryan Blair
“Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.” ―Colleen C. Barrett
“Dwell in possibility.” ―Emily Dickinson
“You’re not in competition with other women. You’re in competition with everyone.” ―Tina Fey
“You’re going to see ups and downs your whole career.” ―Tony Parker
Inspirational Quotes on Career
“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
“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 can not 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
“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
“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
“You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.” —Confucius
Inspirational Career Quotes for a Successful Career
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” ―Confucius
“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.” ―Arthur Ashe
“Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” ―Francis of Assisi
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” ―Milton Berle
“There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.” ―Norman Vincent Peale
“You can control two things: your work ethic and your attitude about anything.” ―Ali Krieger
“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” ―Henry Ford
“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word — excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.” ―Pearl Buck
“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
“I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do something that I can do.” ―Helen Keller
“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.” ―Thomas Paine
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” ―Kurt Cobain
“It’s not the days in your life, but the life in your days that counts.” ―Brian White
“Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” ―Goethe
“If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” ―Thomas Jefferson
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” ―Seneca
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ―Mae West
“You are very powerful provided you know how powerful you are.” ―Yogi Bhajan
“No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.” ―Rob Liano
“Desire! That’s the one secret of every man’s career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.” ―Johnny Carson
“Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.” ―Norman Vincent Peale
“I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.” ―Mia Hamm
“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” ―General George Patton
“Management is nothing more than motivating people.” ―Lee Iacocca
“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.” ―Theodore Roosevelt
“The most effective way to do it is to do it.” ―Amelia Earhart
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.” ―Colin Powell
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” ―Les Brown
“Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.” ―Seth Berkley
“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 then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.” ―Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your two ears.” ―Laird Hamilton
“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. And 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. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” ―Steve Jobs
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” ―William James
“If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.” ―Michelangelo
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.” ―Amelia Earhart
“There is no passion to be found playing small — in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” ―Nelson Mandela
“I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” ―Charles Swindoll
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humour, and some style.” ―Maya Angelou
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” ―Helen Keller
“When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.” ―Jocko Willink
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” ―Beverly Sills
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ―Oliver Wendell Holmes
“At the end of the day, you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it, overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can’t control everything in your life, but you can control your happiness.” ―Holly Holm
“I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences. I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else.” ―Queen Latifah
“If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.” ―Eddie Colla
“When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.” ―Paulo Coelho
“Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.” ―Brad Henry
“Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It’s black and white – dramatic. You have to be strong.” ―Catherine Zeta-Jones
“Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.” ―Joel Osteen