Career Motivation Quotes:

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. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational Life, Ambition, People, Social Entrepreneurship, Importunate

There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

- Joe Strummer

topic: Perseverance, Determination, Persistence, Unsuccessful, Perserverance

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Inspirational, Determination, Persistence, Unsuccessful, Solved Problems

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Motivational, Positive, Jobs, Strangest Secret, Motivational Career

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

- Calvin Coolidge

source: Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

topic: Persistence, Men, World, Unsuccessful, Solved Problems

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness, Thought Of The Day, Self Determination

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

- Orison Swett Marden

topic: Motivational, Careers, New Job, Successful Career, Career Motivation

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 chiselingand scraping and polishing.

- B. C. Forbes

topic: Hard Work, Thinking, Careers, Inspirational Hard Work, Career Motivation

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Motivational, Wisdom, Loss, Unsuccessful, Perserverance

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

- Robert Kennedy

source: Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

topic: Inspirational, Success, Failure, Journey To Success, Inspirational Achievement

The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Inspirational, Determination, Race, Unsuccessful, Perserverance

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

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Unsuccessful, Solved Problems

If you think you can't, you're right.

- Carol Bartz

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Thought Of The Day, Best Success

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

- Benjamin Franklin Fairless

topic: Motivational, Team, Successful, Job Opportunities, New 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

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

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

- Mark Twain

topic: Positive, Secret, Getting Started, Manageable, Marketing And Sales

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

- Beverly Sills

source: "Conquering an Enemy Called Average". Book by John Mason, 1996.

topic: Positive, Shortcuts, Grad, Go Hard, Inspirational Graduation

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 can dream it, you can achieve it.

- Zig Ziglar

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

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

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

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

- Paul J. Meyer

topic: Communication, Careers, Keys, Interacting With Others, Lack Of Communication

What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Job Opportunities, New Career, Greatest Achievement, Successful Career, Motivational Career

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

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Live For Yourself, Life Going On

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

- Alexander Graham Bell

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Life Wisdom, Job Opportunities

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

- Mary Kay Ash

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Empowering Women, International Business

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

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

The worst thing you can do is nothing.

- Terry Pratchett

topic: Motivational, Change, Positive, Make The Right Choice, Make The Right Decision

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspiration And Motivation, Entrepreneurial Spirit

All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone.

- Tony Robbins

topic: Growth, Comfort, Ends, Solo Travel, Safety Zone

If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.

- Seth Godin

topic: Inspirational, Trying, Scare, Ingenious, Inspirational Career

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

- Arthur Ashe

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Self Esteem

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

- Neale Donald Walsch

topic: Life, Motivational, Powerful, Solo Travel, Safety Zone

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Best Success, About Success

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

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

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

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Mother Jones Magazine, Vol.16, No.3, p.77, May - June 1991.

topic: Procrastination, Firsts, Steps, New Projects, Pushing On

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

- William James

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Social Good, Make Me Feel Better

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

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Motivational, Self, Careers, Career Development, Career Motivation