Professional Career Quotes

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

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

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• When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

  Lou Holtz (1990). “The Fighting Spirit: A Championship Season at Notre Dame”

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  By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Motivational, Hilarious

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• You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations". Book by William S. Walsh, 1951.

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

  George Halas

  Work, Office Jobs, Nfl

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• The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Being Happy, Uplifting

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• It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.

  Carlton Fisk

  Powerful, Careers, New Job

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• I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.

  Jon Stewart

  Careers, Looks, Want

  Orange County Register, July 9, 1999.

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

  Tony Dorsett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Tony Dorsett, Harvey Frommer (1989). “Running tough: memoirs of a football maverick”, Doubleday Books

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• The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Time, Work

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 12, 2017

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• Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

  Denis Waitley

  Fathers Day, Work, Careers

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• I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.

  Helen Keller

  Success, Careers, Failing

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• Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Work

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• Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

  Bobby Unser

  Motivational, Positive, Men

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• If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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