Career Quotes

I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I ...

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness...

Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men ar...

If I had to design a career for myself, I would have done comedy.

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

God help me, he thought. God help all us poor wretches who could create and find we must lose our he...

Very well then! I'll write, write write. He let the words soak into his mind and displace all else.A...

It’s not about you. The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your...

A writer can live by his writing. If not so luxuriously as by other trades, then less luxuriously. T...

The key to career advancement is appearing valuable despite all hard evidence to the contrary. … If ...

Games have grown and developed from this limited in-the-box experience to something that's everywher...

The story is told of a famous German chemist that his marriage did not take place, because he forgot...

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.

When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his caree...

As much as I would really like to have saved myself heartache, embarrassment or gossip, I also know ...

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.

As much as I would really like to have saved myself heartache, embarrassment or gossip, I also know ...

Don't be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself—you are not old enough to judg...

Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such wo...

Most of the people I know who are having trouble finding their life work are somewhat passive in sty...

I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go do...

He was terribly conscious that he only had one life and it seemed to sad to think that he had wasted...

He was terribly conscious that he only had one life and with seemed to sad to think that he had wast...

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

Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is ...

I'm in a stage where I feel like I need to retrain my mind, because since the beginning of my career...

Treat your career like a bad boyfriend. Your career wont take care of you. It won't call you back or...

You are all so good and I wish I were better. Now get out of here because I want to be where you are...

Treat your career like a bad boyfriend. Here's the thing. Your career won't take care of you. It won...

Your career and your passion don't always match up.

In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers ...

Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – ...

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, ...

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have...

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline t...

It takes two to make a very great career: the man who is great, and the man--almost rarer--who is gr...

Death is very often referred to as a good career move.

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a cultur...

The home is the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose, and that is to support the...

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

It was in the work that she came closest to finding herself, by which we don’t mean gaining “self-kn...

Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.

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

There's no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession. Talent does not exist, we are all e...

You will only be great at the things you love to do.Don't pursue a career in something you hate to d...

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What re...

Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your...

Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man...

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his j...

I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw ...

If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego ...

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I ...

what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an ‘appoi...

You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. ...

After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may ...

It's not a career for anyone who needs or values security. It's a career for gamblers. Every time yo...

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or profes...

If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music.

Heaven knows where I'll end up - it's a safe bet I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I part...

Why, then,' answered the squire, 'I am very sorry you have given him so much learning; for, if he ca...

Doing his utmost, deploying all his energy, a young man setting out from zero can wind up after ten ...

Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

The point is not to be the best, but to be the best you can be.

I built my entire career off of teen comedies. I was in 'Bring It On'.

When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will t...

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering w...

I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from arti...

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativi...

A woman who walks away from the promise of power finds the strength to forgive – and saves her frien...

What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to...

What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to...

Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are.  Our worldly power results from our p...

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and our abilities were used in a way ...

In business as well as in everything else, you're in business to spread love.  Your agency should sp...

You have tremendous gifts to give; God sent them with you when you came to this earth. And while you...

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

Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian ascet...

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set...

Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape.

I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those that ...

I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding th...

I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.