15 Career Quotes to Motivate You

1. It’s not what you achieve, it’s what you overcome. That’s what defines your career. -Carlton Fisk

2. The best career advice given to the young is: Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it. -Katherine Whitehorn

3. To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happiness as the world provides. One of the fortunate aspects of this formula is that, granted the right career has been found, the hard work takes care of itself. Then hard work is not hard work at all. -Mark Sullivan

4. I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. -Lou Holtz

5. Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. -Abdul Kalam

6. 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

 7. Your Career is your business. It's time for you to manage it as a CEO. - Dorit Sher

 8. Your Career is your own responsibility. Your employer is not your mother -. Jurgen Appelo

 9. A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone. - Lorna Luft

 10. Employees no longer come to companies for life. They join for experience with a career plan already in mind; they are taking control themselves. - Vanessa Lawrence

 11. Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do. - Anurag Prakash Ray

12. Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile. - Gary Ryan Blair

13. Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiseling and scraping and polishing. -BC Forbes –

 14. If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. -Jane Fonda

15. What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.-Benjamin F. Fairless