Career Advice Quotes:

I don't get much career advice at all, and I would like some.

- Jessica Valenti

source: Source: bigthink.com

topic: Careers, Advice, Career Advice

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Heart, Follow Your Heart, Intuition, Inner Voice, Business Life

Believe that things will work out... follow your intuition and curiosity... trust your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path... You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future... 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... Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Believe, Heart, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

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. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Graduation, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

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

- Alice Walker

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Maintaining Peace, Personal Power

Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Change, Work, Life Changing, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

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 will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

- Johnny Carson

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Career, Inspired To Work

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Job Opportunities, Inspiring Business

Be so good they can't ignore you.

- Steve Martin

topic: Funny, Life, Motivational Sports, Ignore Me, Career Advice

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

This is what I tell young women who ask me for career advice. People are going to try to trick you. To make you feel that you are in competition with one another. You're up for a promotion. If they go for a woman, it'll be between you and Barbara. Don't be fooled. You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.

- Tina Fey

topic: Careers, People, Advice, Career Advice, Another Woman

It hasn't always easy to combine these two competing ambitions and, in retrospect, it's a shame no one steered me towards science communications, which I think would have suited me down to the ground. But careers advice has largely been absent from my life, so I have pretty much made it up as I've gone along!

- Suw Charman-Anderson

topic: Communication, Ambition, Thinking, Career Advice

I've often been given the career advice to not wear too many hats, which, of course, has just encouraged me to wear other hats, such as being a writer, being a curator, or just doing anything outside of the definition of an artist.

- Matthew Brannon

topic: Artist, Careers, Advice, Career Advice, Curator

I've had lots of good career advice over the years. I've learned that you must always arrive knowing your lines, you must hit your marks, you must be punctual and cheerful and kind. I'm always irritated with young people who misbehave and young actors who are temperamental. I don't think there's any need for it.

- Jacki Weaver

source: "Jacki Weaver, America’s Sweetheart". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 2, 2014.

topic: Thinking, Years, Careers, Career Advice

God has been my number one inspiration. I also look up to Will Smith and Jamie Fox who are also personal friends of mine. They give me great career advice. I would also include Chris Stokes, as a filmmaker and music producer. I've been working with him since I was eight.

- Marques Houston

topic: Inspiration, Eight, Careers, Career Advice, Stoke

My first piece of career advice is find your gifting. Find the thing that you are skilled at and figure out if you can make a living doing it.

- Michelle Singletary

topic: Careers, Advice, Firsts, Gifting, Career Advice

I'd like to believe that achieving a leadership position is all about competency, capability and ambition, so I try not to distinguish between the sexes when it comes to giving career advice.

- Heather Bresch

source: "West Virginia's Leading Lady: A Q&A with Heather Bresch". Interview with Jennifer Jett, www.wvexecutive.com. February 25, 2014.

topic: Sex, Believe, Ambition, Career Advice, Competencies

I have two last pieces of advice. First, being pre-approved for a credit card does not mean you have to apply for it. And lastly, the best career advice I can give you is to get your own TV show. It pays well, the hours are good, and you are famous. And eventually some very nice people will give you a doctorate in fine arts for doing jack squat.

- Stephen Colbert

source: Stephen Colbert's Commencement Address at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, www.alternet.org. June 5, 2006.

topic: Art, Nice, Mean, Career Advice, Doctorates

Young people are looking for meaning and happiness to accompany their first paycheque. Inspire Your Career provides career advice designed to help you find more than just material success. Through its empowering and practical lessons, readers will find inspiration as they embark on their careers.

- Marc Kielburger

topic: Inspiration, Careers, People, Career Advice