Career Motivation Quotes

It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career. ~ Carlton Fisk

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

Every fight can be the last one, that's why for every fight I prepare myself like it's the last fight of my career. ~ Vitali Klitschko

As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family. ~ Annette Funicello

Glenda enjoyed her job. She didn't have a career; they were for people who could not hold down jobs. ~ Terry Pratchett

ingenue whose career was winding down ~ David Halberstam

No idea, no matter how good, will work if it doesn't get used. ~ Peter A. Cohen

And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life. ~ Judy Woodruff

People leave companies for two reasons. One, they don't feel appreciated. And two, they don't get along with their boss. ~ Adam Bryant

When you train yourself, through repetition and practice, to overcome procrastination and get your most important tasks completed quickly, you will move yourself onto the fast track in your life and career and step on the accelerator. ~ Brian Tracy

We seem obsessed with motivation, rallying ourselves to something beyond the life available to us right now, and we treat this motivation as if it were a major part of the history of wisdom, which it is not. ~ Jennifer Michael Hecht

I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down. ~ David Coverdale

I am convinced that in my own career I could usually have hit 30 points higher if I had made a specialty of hitting. ~ Johnny Evers

Not many people are able to say that they had in their professional career the chance to perform in two bands that won Grammys and were multiplatinum bands. ~ Scott Weiland

Still, I had a hunch about it, and if there's one thing I've learned in my long and stupid career as a man, it's the importance of listening to my hunches. ~ Paul Auster

For this was the age of The Girl. We had come out of the back parlor, out of the kitchen and nursery, we turned our backs upon the blackboards, shed aprons and paper cuffs. A war had freed us and given women a new kind of self-respect.
The adjective poor no longer preceded the once disreputable "working girl". It was honorable, it was jolly, it was even superior to be a "career girl". ~ Vera Caspary

I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career. ~ David Naughton

How soon do you think it is? Time will tell me. When it's autumn, the leaves fall. When the time comes, I'll know it.
[Responding to a question about when he will start throwing his slider in his attempt to comeback from a career-ending stroke.] ~ J.R. Richard

I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn't so easily bent. ~ Angela Merkel

It's easy to make fun of someone like her, but i love that she doesn't apologize for herself: not even when she curses in from of me; not when people in elevators stare at her makeup style (which i'd say is pretty much geisha-meets-clown; not even when- it should be noted- she made a colossal mistake that cost her a career. She may be not very happy, but she is happy to be. It's more than i can say about myself. ~ Jodi Picoult

LIFE and YOU : What YOU exactly want from LIFE, it'll never give. LIFE gives for sure, but in pieces. It's YOU who have to assemble, all that LIFE ponders, according to your needs. It's YOU who have to realise how you can get what YOU exactly want. ~ Vikrmn

Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions. ~ Jim Evans

I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself. ~ Danny Strong

If all work and no play makes you dull,
Then you're on the wrong job. ~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

I love having the laid-back, easy-going, family-priority nature of New Zealand, but I'm certainly enjoying the States in terms of the career opportunities and the enthusiasm I get to find work. ~ Rose McIver

What I love about how my career has gone up to this point is that I've always, always put my head down on my pillow at night, and I've been able to say that I've done, honestly, what I've felt like I wanted to do. And that's really all you can hope for in everything you do. ~ Debbie Gibson

I love it when people tell me you can't. For the very moment they say you can't, they challenge the "I can" that lies deep down within me, and the result is always positive. The I can in me rises up to the challenge and gets the job done. ~ Bien Sufficient

As long as we persevere, we shall succeed in any endeavour. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Being 36 years old changes you a lot, and so does eight years away from career, fame, needing attention, needing to be loved by strangers on some level. I was loving anonymity. I was loving the fact that I could meet a girl who didn't know who I was. I enjoyed it very much, I have to say. ~ Maxwell

I have to hurt other people in order to get what I want, I don't have a choice but to. In life, you gotta do the right things for the wrong reasons. Or the wrong things for the right reasons. ~ Khali Raymond

8-Push all your own buttons:
Make a note of everything that inspires you. That's your control panel.
Those buttons operate your whole system of personal motivation. ~ Steve Chandler

Are you joining a conversation or taking it over? Stay aware of how you join a conversation and of your effect on a conversation. ~ Loren Weisman

When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation. ~ Ma Jun