Career Advice Quotes

• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Graduation, Heart, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Business, Work

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• If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Inspirational Life, Hard Work

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Work, Life Changing

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace.

  Johnny Carson

  Doing What You Love, Work You Love, Careers

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• Work hard at work worth doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Day Jobs, Labor Day

  Theodore Roosevelt (1967). “Writings”

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• Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

  Johnny Carson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Be so good they can't ignore you.

  Steve Martin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.

  Arthur Golden

  Inspirational, Success, Fear

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• This is what I tell young women who ask me for career advice. People are going to try to trick you. To make you feel that you are in competition with one another. You're up for a promotion. If they go for a woman, it'll be between you and Barbara. Don't be fooled. You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Careers, People

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• It hasn't always easy to combine these two competing ambitions and, in retrospect, it's a shame no one steered me towards science communications, which I think would have suited me down to the ground. But careers advice has largely been absent from my life, so I have pretty much made it up as I've gone along!

  Suw Charman-Anderson

  Communication, Ambition, Thinking

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• I don't get much career advice at all, and I would like some.

  Jessica Valenti

  Careers, Advice

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I've often been given the career advice to not wear too many hats, which, of course, has just encouraged me to wear other hats, such as being a writer, being a curator, or just doing anything outside of the definition of an artist.

  Matthew Brannon

  Artist, Careers, Advice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've had lots of good career advice over the years. I've learned that you must always arrive knowing your lines, you must hit your marks, you must be punctual and cheerful and kind. I'm always irritated with young people who misbehave and young actors who are temperamental. I don't think there's any need for it.

  Jacki Weaver

  Thinking, Years, Careers

  "Jacki Weaver, America’s Sweetheart". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 2, 2014.

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• God has been my number one inspiration. I also look up to Will Smith and Jamie Fox who are also personal friends of mine. They give me great career advice. I would also include Chris Stokes, as a filmmaker and music producer. I've been working with him since I was eight.

  Marques Houston

  Inspiration, Eight, Careers

  "Marques Houston Talks 'Battleground America' w/ S&A (Story, Character, Working w/ Kids)". Interview with Masha Dowell, www.indiewire.com. September 18, 2012.

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• My first piece of career advice is find your gifting. Find the thing that you are skilled at and figure out if you can make a living doing it.

  Michelle Singletary

  Careers, Advice, Pieces

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• I'd like to believe that achieving a leadership position is all about competency, capability and ambition, so I try not to distinguish between the sexes when it comes to giving career advice.

  Heather Bresch

  Sex, Believe, Ambition

  "West Virginia's Leading Lady: A Q&A with Heather Bresch". Interview with Jennifer Jett, www.wvexecutive.com. February 25, 2014.

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• I have two last pieces of advice. First, being pre-approved for a credit card does not mean you have to apply for it. And lastly, the best career advice I can give you is to get your own TV show. It pays well, the hours are good, and you are famous. And eventually some very nice people will give you a doctorate in fine arts for doing jack squat.

  Stephen Colbert

  Art, Nice, Mean

  Stephen Colbert's Commencement Address at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, www.alternet.org. June 5, 2006.

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• Young people are looking for meaning and happiness to accompany their first paycheque. Inspire Your Career provides career advice designed to help you find more than just material success. Through its empowering and practical lessons, readers will find inspiration as they embark on their careers.

  Marc Kielburger

  Inspiration, Careers, People

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