Career Quotes and Messages

I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.

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

Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint’, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

Write your own book instead of reading someone else’s book about success.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

Getting fired is nature’s way of telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

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.

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

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

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

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

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

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