65 Inspirational Career Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing career quotes and sayings.
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Short Career Quotes and Sayings
“People don’t choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.” —John Dos Passos
“I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.” —Shakira
“If you find yourself in a hole; stop digging.” —Sharon Cooke Vargas
“Live the life you’ve imagined.” —Henry David Thoreau
“If I had my career over again? Maybe I’d say to myself, speed it up a little.” —Jimmy Stewart
“It’s up to the individual to find confidence in what they do.” —Unknown
“Every exit is an entry somewhere.” —Tom Stoppard
“You’re going to see ups and downs your whole career.” —Tony Parker
“A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks.” —Steve Guttenberg
“Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.” —Herb Brooks
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” —Dale Carnegie
“Don’t think of the fall think about the flight you can take, if you try.” —Unknown
“Good managers care little for their designation and more for their Job.” —Unknown
“We are more than our jobs.” —Unknown
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” —Steve Jobs
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” —Abraham Lincoln
“Management is nothing more than motivating people.” —Lee Iacocca
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” —Aristotle
“The fear that you overcome define your career.” —Unknown
“Passion will keep you going when the going gets tough.” —David Copperfield
“A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.” —James Bryce
“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” —General George Patton
“Always deliver more than expected.” —Larry Page
“Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.” —Mother Teresa
“Be willing to sacrifice any job to protect your career.” —Grant D. Fairley
Career Quotes and Sayings
“Your job owned by company, but your career is in you. Money is important but not everything.” —Unknown
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” —Confucius
“Communication – the human connection – is the key to personal and career success.” —Paul J. Meyer
“I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.” —Lou Holts
“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on!” —Sheryl Sandberg
“It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.” —Thomas Carlyle
“Give a man a job and you have an employee. Teach a man how to shift blame and you have a manager.” —Unknown
“A career is like a house: it’s made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.” —Andrea Bocelli
“It’s not what you achieve, it’s what you overcome. That’s what defines your career.” —Carlton Fisk
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” —Alice Walker
“Desire! That’s the one secret of every man’s career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.” —Johnny Carson
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” —Stephen Covey
“People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.” —William Hazlitt
“Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than career.” —Unknown
“A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.” —Marilyn Monroe
“Nothing is written in stone, as a career is an unpredictable journey.” —Zlatan Ibrahimovic
“When one door closes another opens but all too often there is a long hallway in between.” —Rick Jarow
“Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.” —Marlon Brando
“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“The golden rule for every business man is this: ”Put yourself in your customer’s place.” —Orison Swett Marden
“I’ve come to realize your career is all about the choices you make. Every single one matters.” —Demi Lovato
“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.” —Gloria Steinem
“Progress always involves risk. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.” —Robert Quillen
“The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.” —William Hazlitt
“The path in front of you is rarely a straight line. It’s full of bumps … Embrace the bumps in the road.” —Ellen Bennett
“Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.” —Alfred Victor Vigny
“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.” —Arthur Ashe
“Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.” —John Dryden
“Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.” —Marian Wright Edelman
Top Ten Career Quotes and Sayings
Here you will find top ten career quotes and sayings selected by our team.
- “People don’t choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.” —John Dos Passos
- “I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.” —Lou Holts
- “Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than career.” —Unknown
- “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” —Confucius
- “The fear that you overcome define your career.” —Unknown
- “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on!” —Sheryl Sandberg
- “Good managers care little for their designation and more for their Job.” —Unknown
- “A career is like a house: it’s made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.” —Andrea Bocelli
- “Desire! That’s the one secret of every man’s career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.” —Johnny Carson
- “If I had my career over again? Maybe I’d say to myself, speed it up a little.” —Jimmy Stewart
