Inspiring Career Quotes

You don't need to win every medal to be successful. ~ Jason Fried

I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point? ~ Steve Martin

When I started wearing a yarmulke, I wanted to stand out or take the form of whatever was inspiring me. But now I think there's something to not working it, to keeping it on the inside, and it just being kind of like a secret. ~ Matisyahu

I've been demonized as a racist and an extremist. Now, no matter what I say, I mean, I've served in the military with people of all ethnicities and all races but it doesn't matter what I say, I still get demonized and implied to be a racist. So if anybody has any questions on where I stand on that they can ask my good friend Doug Taft who is sitting here on the side and ask him what he thinks about me being a racist. ~ Matt Shea

It is always better to look at the bright side of life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There are no funny lawyers - only funny people who made a career mistake. ~ Robert J. White

Since the 1980s, I've been known more for my TV work, I used to host 'Live at Jongleurs' and of course 'Grumpy Old Men,' and so it's really all come from there. It's been a funny career really, there are people that know me now as a TV person, a comedian, an interviewer - I've had people genuinely gobsmacked to find out I am a musician. ~ Rick Wakeman

Today everything exists to end in a photograph. ~ Susan Sontag

'Sabotage' was an opportunity. That was journeyman work, but the irony is I learned more off that movie on what filmmaking is and isn't than everything else combined. A lot of lessons, and it will impact me for the rest of my career. ~ David Ayer

If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally. ~ Landon Donovan

I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's. ~ T.I.

My dad was a businessman, and he would say, 'Work for free at the best company. Don't get paid a lot of money to work with the worst people.' And that's exactly how I see my career. ~ Topher Grace

I always wanted and enjoyed sex, but I never put much importance on scoring or having an athletic sex life. I guess I define myself more by my career and my commitment to a relationship than by my ability to have a lot of chicks or achieve ten orgasms in an evening. ~ George Carlin

Management's job is to convey leadership's message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example. ~ Jeffrey Gitomer

Fear less, hope more;
eat less, chew more;
whine less, breathe more;
talk less, say more;
hate less, love more;
and all good things are yours. ~ Swedish Proverb

One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write. ~ Matthew Reilly

You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal. ~ Zig Ziglar

Maybe I'll never be able to figure out what I'm passionate about. But when I choose something, it has to be something that when I wake up it's the first thing I think about, and it's also the last thing I think about before I go to sleep. I read about other people and how much they love their jobs - like, how they just want to do it all the time and it doesn't feel like work because they love it so much. I want that to happen to me. ~ Maria Malonzo

The Tyson fight was like the hardest I ever trained for a fight in my entire career. ~ Lennox Lewis

To begin with a summary of Paine's astonishing life and career is to commence with a sense of wonder that he was ever able to emerge at all. ~ Christopher Hitchens

i know i can't do much, but i can do a little and i'm going to do as much of that as i can.

but if we all do that--
we can make a big difference. ~ AVA.

Hello? War and Peace." "You've read War and Peace?" "Um, do I look like I have time to read a book as long as Oksana Chusovitina's career? ~ Lauren Hopkins

You must develop a sense of what you can contribute that goes beyond 1 company or organization. A career path today will likely involve moving from organization to organization, creating a picture of rising circles, rather than a vertical ladder. In fact, a vertical rise within one organization will very likely move you away from your strongest areas of competence. ~ Dan Miller

In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said It is the trade entering his body. ~ Annie Dillard

We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways. ~ Marge Piercy

In the beginning of any career, in every job, people are always forcing you to the middle. ~ Albert Brooks

Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career. ~ Rupert Penry-Jones

Look at Cillian Murphy: 'Batman,' 'Tron' ... those are some heavy-hitting franchises. But he works his way around it. He manages to have a great career and a great life. ~ Domhnall Gleeson

I had a lot of nerves for a long time about career-oriented things, and I've slowly sort of let myself relax into it a bit. Part of me thinks that's maybe the effect of being on two hit shows. I like to think that maybe it's more: You do the things you do, and you do the best you can, and that's all you can hope for, and don't worry too much if it's not it. ~ Matt McGorry

Love is the greatest self. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

But love isn't a career. It isn't a degree you earn or a formula you pull out of a textbook. It's bumpy and blotched and painful and completely irreplaceable. Aren't there times when it might be better to let go? Sometimes the best part of life grows out of what you have no say over. ~ Carol Cassella

Falling in love: how does it work? Over the years we gather the odd clue, but nothing adds up. We'd like to think we have a picture of our future partner projected in our mind, all their qualities recorded as if on film, and we just search the planet for that person until we find them, sitting in Casablanca waiting to be recognised. But in reality our love lives are blown around by career and coincidence, not to mention lack of nerve on given occasions, and we never have respectable reasons for anything until we have to make them up afterwards for the benefit of our curious friends. ~ Michel Faber

Jesus Christ is three in one: the way, the truth, and the life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Unless you are intellectually numb, you can't escape the allure of the quantum, the tantalizing possibility that we are immersed in mystery, forever bound within the shores of the Island of Knowledge. Unless you are intellectually numb, you can't escape the awe-inspiring feeling that the essence of reality is unknowable. ~ Marcelo Gleiser

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later. ~ Tony Gilroy

You are remaking the world, Noah. Drawing by drawing ~ Jandy Nelson

I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really. ~ Aaron Paul

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ~ Joss Whedon

Creationist 'logic' is always the same. Some natural phenomenon is too statistically improbable, too complex, too beautiful, too awe-inspiring to have come into existence by chance. Design is the only alternative to chance that the authors can imagine. ~ Richard Dawkins

I took part in a theatre festival in Massachusetts two summers after I graduated from college. Then I was in Los Angeles thinking: "I'm going to go to New York." I'd decided that I would not have a chance of a film career, so I was about to make the move. I bought a plane ticket and found a place to live in New York, packed my bags and of course the universe "told me" that I was not meant to go. Suddenly, a week before I was supposed to leave, I had three job offers and one of them was my first movie. ~ Chris Pine

The prospect of beginning a third- act career scared me almost as much as it attracted me. ~ Tony Danza

The final mystery is oneself. ~ Oscar Wilde

It's LeBron's team. He's the captain. This is the time in my career where I can fit in. I'm now in the security business. My job is to protect the King, and that's what I'm here to do. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Fernanda Andrade and Daphne Zuniga are two beautiful, inspiring women I met and became very close with while living in L.A. Daphne's father is from Central America, and Fernanda is originally from Brazil. ~ Torrey DeVitto

Positive impact, positive society. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita