Motivational Career Quotes:

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

- Zig Ziglar

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

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

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

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

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Inspirational, Determination, Race, Unsuccessful, Perserverance

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

- Marilyn Monroe

topic: Love, Success, New Year, Career Women, Motivational Career

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Motivational, Wisdom, Loss, Unsuccessful, Perserverance

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

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

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

- Calvin Coolidge

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

There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

- Joe Strummer

topic: Perseverance, Determination, Persistence, Unsuccessful, Perserverance

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

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

- Sam Levenson

source: Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.146, Open Road Media

topic: Motivational, Success, Time, Positive Thoughts, Inspirational Career

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

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

- Winston Churchill

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Pushing On, Source Of Life

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

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Spiritual, Courage To Change, Inspirational Career

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

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

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

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Impossible Dream, Pursue Your Dreams

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

- John Wooden

source: "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Inspiration And Motivation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Carol Bartz

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

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

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Advice, Action, Self Determination, Importunate, Trying Something New

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

- Helen Keller

source: Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

topic: Doors, Long, Looks, Daily Work, Always Happy

Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Motivational, Moving, Needs, Motivational Career, Motivational Job

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat.

- Paul J. Meyer

topic: Giving, Recognition, Defeat, Concentrating, Motivational Career

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

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

- Colin Powell

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude, Striving For Perfection, Striving For Excellence

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Motivational, Effort, Achieve, Motivational Career, Motivational Job

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

If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Positive, Hell, Keep Going, Way In Life, Pushing On

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