Career Quotes

Here you'll find some career quotes for inspiration. A few well spoken words is sometimes all you need to maintain your motivation and stay focused on the tasks at hand. I hope you'll find some inspiration in these career quotes.

Quotes on Change

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." Maria Robinson

"Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted." unknown

"If you don't create change, change will create you." unknown

"The key to success is often the ability to adapt." unknown

"I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change." Richard Nelson Bolles

Quotes on Confidence

"To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are." unknown

"Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions." unknown

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." Goethe

Quotes on Career Choice

"I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude." unknown

"Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely." unknown

"When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels." unknown

"Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life." Confucius

"Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams." unknown

Quotes on Perseverance

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." Confucius

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." Marcus Aurelius

"Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged people who kept on working." unknown

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water." Rabindranath Tagore

"Many fine things can be done in a day if you don't always make that day tomorrow." unknown

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."Camus

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." Epictetus

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." Albert Einstein

Quotes on Happiness

"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being." Confucius

"You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed." Rabindranath Tagore

"What is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and the life they lead."Camus

"Let the beauty we love be what we do." Rumi

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy." Apollinaire

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." unknown

Quotes on Inspiration

"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it." Albert Einstein

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." Albert Einstein

"We must unlearn those things that present barriers to deeper more profound truths." Nicholas de Cusa

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky." Rabindranath Tagore

"A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe." Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"Follow your own star!" Dante

"We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen." Rilke