Professional Career Quotes:

One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really evident.

- Adrian Tomine

topic: Careers, Evolution, Professional Career, Evident

When I thought my professional career was over, it hadn't even started yet.

- Ina Garten

topic: Careers, Over It, Professional Career

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

- Confucius

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Young Entrepreneurs

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging, Give Me Strength, Self Determination

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

- John Ruskin

topic: Love, Inspirational, Motivational, Professional Career, Work You Love

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

- George S. Patton

topic: Life, Motivational, Success, Bounce, World War 2

I've missed more than 9000 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

source: "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Best Success

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

- Lou Holtz

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Sports, Inspirational Coaching, Professional Career

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

- Robert Frost

topic: Funny, Motivational, Hilarious, Funny Leadership, Professional Career

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Top Management, Marketing And Sales

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

- Robert Kiyosaki

topic: Past, Way, Study, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

- George Halas

topic: Work, Daily Work, Inspirational Hard Work, Work Done, Inspirational Office

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspiration, Way, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs, Creating Worlds

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

- Carlton Fisk

topic: Powerful, Careers, New Job, Professional Career, Maximizing

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

- Jon Stewart

topic: Careers, Looks, Want, Professional Career, Professional Work

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

- Alan Kay

topic: Worry, Way, Live By, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

- Tony Dorsett

source: Tony Dorsett, Harvey Frommer (1989). “Running tough: memoirs of a football maverick”, Doubleday Books

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Sports Spirit, Professional Career

The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Time, Enjoy, Worst, Professional Career, Motivational Career

Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Careers, Inspirational Determination, Inspirational Father, Inspirational Hard Work, Inspirational Passion

I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.

- Helen Keller

topic: Success, Failing, Can Not, Professional Career, Motivational Career

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

- Katharine Whitehorn

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Work, Professional Career, Motivational Career

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

- Bobby Unser

topic: Motivational, Positive, Men, Professional Career, Professional Work

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.

- Sheryl Sandberg

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Career, Career Women

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

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Thought Of The Day, Try Again

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.

- Arthur Golden

topic: Confidence, Fighting, Men, Inspirational Career, Memories Of A Geisha

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Life, Careers, Chances In Life, Inspirational Career

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

- Walt Disney

topic: Inspirational, Mother, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

- Belva Davis

source: Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

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

- Robert H. Schuller

topic: Inspirational, Powerful, Failure, Professional Career, Maximizing

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Sarcastic, Thinking, Careers, Professional Career, Career Politicians

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Positive, Dream, Limits, About Success, Inner Growth

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

- Jane Fonda

topic: Careers, Unexpected, Inconvenience, Professional Career, Careers Choices

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

- James M. Barrie

topic: Motivational, Work, Daily Work, Inspirational Hard Work, Work Done

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Positive, Dream, Achieve, Managing Change, Great Minds

Don't confuse having a career with having a life.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Careers, Balance, Politics, Professional Career, Work Life Balance

As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people – I am ready to lead,

- Donald Berwick

source: "Berwick announces run for governor" by Joanne Kenen, www.politico.com. June 17, 2013.

topic: Doctors, Careers, People, Professional Career

I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.

- Major Taylor

source: Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

topic: Practice, Play, Careers, Professional Career, Good Sportsmanship

I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals.

- Jennifer Lopez

topic: Years, Careers, Dancing, Professional Career, Five Year Olds

Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.

- Lawrence Klein

source: "Lawrence R. Klein - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. 2005.

topic: Depression, Growing Up, Impact, Professional Career

I don't think life owes me anything and the business doesn't owe me anything. The only way to approach it is by working hard and loving what you do. If you do that and have faith, maybe you will get lucky. I mean that sincerely and specifically. I truly believe that no professional career in the arts is capable without a healthy dose of luck.

- Bryan Cranston

source: "Exclusive: Bryan Cranston Talks BREAKING BAD Season 3 and 4, TOTAL RECALL, DRIVE, ROCK OF AGES, LARRY CROWNE & LINCOLN LAWYER". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 1, 2011.

topic: Art, Believe, Mean, Professional Career, Loving What You Do

I HAVE no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often implied, especially in tales written to teach children to be good, that babies are born pretty much alike, and that the sole agencies in creating differences between boy and boy, and man and man, are steady application and moral effort. It is in the most unqualified manner that I object to pretensions of natural equality. The experiences of the nursery, the school, the University, and of professional careers, are a chain of proofs to the contrary.

- Francis Galton

source: Sir Francis Galton (1870). “Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry Into Its Laws and Consequences”, p.14

topic: Baby, Children, School, Professional Career, I Have No Patience

So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before.

- Trevor Nunn

topic: Song, Play, Careers, Professional Career, Pantomime

[I would like to be] one of [the first pop singers to perform in a free Cuba]. I know the list is huge. And it would be hard to pull off -- I'd have a lump as big as a tostone [fried green plantain] in my throat. But oh my God, what a dream -- it would be the height of my personal and professional career.

- Gloria Estefan

source: "Gloria Estefan: 'Like Coming Home, But Not to the Old Cuba'". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2007.

topic: Dream, Careers, Cuba, Professional Career

One of the things that I find most incredible about dad is the third act of his life.After all he accomplished in his professional career and what he's given for his country, at the point in his life where he's faced adversity, losing a son, having a helicopter crash, having a stroke, and what he's accomplished in this third act in his life, I find quite extraordinary.

- Michael Douglas

source: "Kirk Douglas Rings In The Big 100 With Birthday Bash Worthy Of A Legend" by Cole Delbyck, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2016.

topic: Country, Dad, Adversity, Professional Career

My mother is somebody who I think of as having just an intense close focus. She's somebody who really can pay very, very close attention to the thing she's focusing on for a very long period of time, and that has served her incredibly well in her professional career. She knows - the things she knows, she knows them just so deeply.

- David Plotz

source: "How Does a Host of Working Work?". "Working" with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

topic: Mother, Thinking, Careers, Professional Career, Long Periods Of Time

At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.

- Rita Levi-Montalcini

topic: Latin, Father, School, Professional Career

By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers.

- Donald Cram

topic: Girl, Children, College, Professional Career

I'm so proud of the time I put in the pool, so proud of the people I met along way, just to be asked to do this was exciting for me. I love it when I run into people who remember me from playing water polo as opposed to what I do now, which is an actor. It's rare that anyone remembers me but it's fun when I run into guys that played water polo who, we can speak in terms of water polo and what it was like and how we played, it's the great camaraderie. I was so excited to be asked to be part of this because I'm proud of it. I'm more proud of this probably than I am my professional career.

- Ted McGinley

topic: Running, Fun, Careers, Professional Career, Water Polo

When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.

- Julius Erving

topic: Basketball, Years, Careers, Professional Career, Top Of The World