Career Quotes

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

~ Ayn Rand

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

~ Napoleon Hill

If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid.

~ Alan W. Watts

What would you do if you weren't afraid?

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Done is better than perfect.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

I have dozens of loyal fans! Baker's dozens! …they come in thirteens.

~ Felicia Day

If you're male, and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And sometimes you find your father in your career.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

One of the first lessons I learned in working life was that you don't need to like every one of your colleagues, and they don't need to like you either. You just have to respect them, and getting their respect in return.

~ Marcella Purnama

When you're vested in fear, frightened of failure, yet in the surrender is where you find your success.

~ Julieanne O'connor

Vested in fear, frightened of failure, but beyond that I choose to surrender to my fated success.

~ Julieanne O'connor

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be.

~ Sanhita Baruah

Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs.

~ Mike Rowe

If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have fun and you aren’t jealous of others. You see other people's talent as another branch of your own. You can keep it rooted in joy. Life is long and there are plenty of opportunities to make mistakes. The point of it all is to learn.

~ Ethan Hawke

None of us has an obligation to accept the definitions of ‘respect’ and ‘gratitude’ our parents espoused, especially when those definitions can be used to guilt-trip us, or when they are being used for the purpose of forcing us to do certain things (as an extortion mechanism).

~ Lukasz Laniecki

Parents were good to us, gave us a lot, took care for us when we couldn’t have taken care for ourselves, wanted the best for us, continue to care about us and our future, but none of it is good enough a reason to fulfil their dreams/ do everything in order to make them happy/ provide them with a peace of mind, or whatever they want for themselves.

~ Lukasz Laniecki

To be successful, look for the job you will take if you don't need a job

~ Warren Buffett

We grow up with such an idealistic view on how our life should be; love, friendships, a career or even the place we will live ~ only to age and realise none of it is what you expected & reality is a little disheartening, when you've reached that realisation; you have learnt the gift of all, any new beginning can start now and if you want anything bad enough you'll find the courage to pursue it with all you have. The past doesn't have to be the future, stop making it so.

~ Nikki Rowe

Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It was better never to have been born-never to have wanted anything, never to have hoped for anything.

~ Donna Tartt

That thing you thought you'd doYou start to think you can't;You always say tomorrow,But you haven't got a plan.Everyone's asking questions,And all you do is dodge.That career that you'd imaginedWas only a mirage.The older that you get,The smaller that you feel;You forget what's only in your head,And what is really real.Sometimes people make it;They become who they meant to be.But most of the time,Dreamers only dream.

~ Margo T. Rose

Here’s to the “so-so-ing” it.Here’s to the working since I was 14 in a smoke clouded day. Here’s to saying I could stay until the forms were faxed.Here’s to driving home past dark and dozing off the road.Here’s to no over time.Here’s to the long line to management.Here’s to ALREADY DONE THAT!Here’s to quitting, saying I’m through, saying I can’t compete for your leftover lean cuisine. Here’s to art. Here’s to freedom. Here’s to saying God gave me every penny and knowing it’s true. Here’s to the next 40 years with you.Here’s to the new.— Adrianna Stepiano

~ Adrianna Stepiano

God is my strength and my defense. When I am weak, he makes me strong. When I am broken, he makes me whole.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Yet for quixotic reasons--namely, that I enjoyed writing obits--I had decided to scale back on articles about city life in order to write exclusively about the city's dead. For even less money. It was a strange and inexplicable career move.

~ Avi Steinberg

Some fail because after they choose the direction for their careers, they spend too much time second-guessing their decision.

~ Kim Ha Campbell

Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.

~ Amit Kalantri

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

~ Criss Jami

If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.

~ Criss Jami

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

~ Carl Sandburg

God help me, he thought. God help all us poor wretches who could create and find we must lose our hearts for it because we cannot afford to spend our time at it. (“Mad House”)

~ Richard Matheson

Very well then! I'll write, write write. He let the words soak into his mind and displace all else.A man had a choice, after all. He devoted his life to his work or to his wife and children and home. It could not be combined; not in this day and age. In this insane world where God was second to income and goodness to wealth.

~ Richard Matheson

If I never got to make a living doing what I loved, I'd still do it--for fun and for free.

~ Susan E. Isaacs

If you can show people how to build castles, make sure you do not neglect building and nurturing your own.

~ Suzy Kassem

Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of livelihood' while he waits to discover his 'true vocation'. The world is full of unsuccessful businessmen who still secretly believe they were meant to be artists or writers or actors in the movies.

~ Thomas Merton

The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.

~ Timothy Ferriss

As much as I would really like to have saved myself heartache, embarrassment or gossip, I also know that my biggest mistakes have turned into my best lessons. And sometimes my greatest career triumphs. If my life had been turbulence-free, maybe my music would be beige, maybe the stadiums wouldn’t be full and the mantle would be a little more empty.

~ Taylor Swift

Friendship is not by force but by choice.You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.

~ Stella Oladiran

Those who work hard and constantly seek to be visible to their superiors, those who showcase their hard work, are the ones who advance to positions of greater power and responsibility.

~ Abhishek Ratna

The focus should be on becoming a strong andinfluential personality – cultivate compelling communication skills, focus on building trust and learn how to expand and leverage your professional network.

~ Abhishek Ratna

Many of us have this mind-set which considers self-promotion a taboo.

~ Abhishek Ratna