Careers And Life Quotes:

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

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

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

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

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Way In Life

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

- Peter Drucker

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

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

- Steve Jobs

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

- Rita Mae Brown

topic: Inspirational, Teacher, Work, Inspirational Passion, Meaningful Work

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

- Hillary Clinton

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

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.

- Orison Swett Marden

topic: Life, Character, Careers, Careers And Life

If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

- Joseph Campbell

source: Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

topic: Inspirational, Careers, Bliss, Careers And Life, Follow Your Passion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Journey To Success

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

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

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

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Inspirational, Luck, Harder, Best Success, Daily Work

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

Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small.

- Tim Ferriss

topic: Inspirational, Life Is Short, Thinking, Life's Too Short, Social Media Marketing

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.

- Paul Clitheroe

topic: Change, Jobs, Life Changing, Careers And Life

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

source: "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Young Entrepreneurs, Fear None

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Live For Yourself, Man Of My Dreams

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Some People Never Change, Inspiration And Life

People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries.

- Mike Rowe

topic: Careers, People, Proud, Careers And Life

I feel like [throughout] my entire career and life, that I've been judged by people who really did not know me. But I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was so little to go on out there. If you only see videos of me being crazy and hearing little things here and there, then obviously you're not going to have any idea who I really am.

- Nicki Minaj

topic: Crazy, Thinking, Careers, Careers And Life

I'm starting on Cirque du Soleil Michael Jackson show. So it's the equivalent of the Beatles' Love show they have, or the Elvis show. Which is exciting and terrifying all at the same time because it's such a huge responsibility. But that's why I took it on, because Mike was such a huge part of my career and life. we were friends for 20 years before he passed, since I was seven. So it's an opportunity for me to give back a little bit to his legacy...

- Wade Robson

topic: Responsibility, Opportunity, Years, Careers And Life, Cirque Du Soleil

There's this sense of being strange, which is at the heart of every creative person. Every writer, every actor, every director knows who Ripley is. We've made careers and lives out of pretending, making things up, inhabiting other people's stories and lives. That's what I do every day. . . . The story is so audacious and subversive: a central character who behaves badly and isn't apparently caught. That intrigued me no end.

- Anthony Minghella

topic: Heart, Character, Careers, Careers And Life, Subversive

Unlike most experts in her field, Erika Andersen has an approach to being strategic that's sensible and accessible. With her, you feel capable of creating the business, career and life you want. She's to strategy what Suze Orman is to personal finance!

- Nancy Tellem

topic: Careers, Creating, Experts, Careers And Life, Personal Finance