Our career is one of the most important aspects of our lives. We have been taught to focus on it since we were kids. We started by aspiring to be something, then worked toward becoming something, and then spend our lives trying to make that something work.
Here are some quotes that will inspire you to make your next career move or will help you learn how to be happy with your choice and make the most of it.
- “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius
- “Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.” – Katherine Whitehorn
- “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
- “The average person puts only 25% of his energy into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.” – Andrew Carnegie
- “Desire! That’s the one secret of every man’s career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.” – Johnny Carson
- “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison
- “Nothing in the 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
- “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.” – Robert H. Schuller
- “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” – General George Patton
- “Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.” – Yogi Berra
- “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.” – Martin Luther King
- “To be a great champion, you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.” – Muhammad Ali
- “The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” – Oliver Wendall Holmes
- “The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from the shore.” – Dale Carnegie
“I’ve missed more than 9,000 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