50 Inspirational Career Quotes To Get You Through The Day

Pause for a second and think about your career. What are your goals? Where do you want to be in a year? What about in five years? How can you get there? What’s standing in the way of your goals?

Take a breath and think about these questions.

Now that you have something in mind, think about what you can do today to bring you closer to your dreams. It can be big or small; just think of something you can put in action today to advance your goals. When you’re ready to do it, we have some inspiration for you.

Regardless of your professional goals, we can all use a little boost sometimes. With everything going on in our lives, it can be easy to lose sight of our future and forget to focus on where we want to be. Sometimes we can get so wrapped up in the present that we even forget to plan ahead and set concrete goals.

Luckily, we can get back on track easily. If you’re looking for a sign to get started on a goal, here it is. We’re giving you some uplifting quotes that can apply to any area of your life. Take this as an opportunity to re-center, shift your mindset, rediscover your dedication, or whatever it is you need to get going.

We picked out 50 of the best quotes about hard work, motivation, and perseverance to get you on track, no matter what you want to achieve. Don’t forget to share these quotes with your friends and family to pass on the good energy!

Inspirational Career Quotes

1. quot;Failure doesn #39;t mean you are a failure it just means you haven #39;t succeeded yet.quot;-Robert H. Schuller

2. ldquo;When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.rdquo;-Harriet Beecher Stone

3. ldquo;You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.rdquo;-C.S. Lewis

4. quot;Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.quot;-Thomas Edison

5. ldquo;I was once afraid of people saying, lsquo;Who does she think she is?rsquo;Now I have the courage to stand and say lsquo;This is who I am.rsquo;rdquo;-Oprah Winfrey

6. ldquo;I #39;ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I #39;ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I #39;ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I #39;ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.quot;-Michael Jordan

7. quot;Dreams are extremely important. You can #39;t do it unless you imagine it.quot;-George Lucas

8. quot;Desire! That #39;s the one secret of every man #39;s career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.quot;-Johnny Carson

9. ldquo;It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.rdquo;-Confucius

10. ldquo;The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.rdquo;-M. Scott Peck

11. ldquo;If opportunity doesn rsquo;t knock, build a door.rdquo;-Milton Berle

12. ldquo;When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.rdquo;-Henry Ford

13. quot;Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I #39;ve never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.quot;-Charles F. Kettering

14. ldquo;It is never too late to be what you might have been.rdquo;-George Eliot

15. ldquo;Nothing will work unless you do.rdquo;-Maya Angelou

16. ldquo;Be stubborn and thick-skinned. Because I think even if you rsquo;re passionate, and even if you rsquo;re really good at what you do, I think you are likely to be subject to preconceived notions of who can do what.rdquo;-Anab Jain

17. quot;Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.quot;-Vince Lombardi

18. quot;Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life ndash;think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.quot;-Swami Vivekananda

19. ldquo;Write your own book instead of reading someone else rsquo;s book about success.rdquo;-Herb Brooks

20. quot;The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won #39;t. It #39;s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.quot;-Barack Obama

21. quot;I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.quot;-Hellen Keller

22. quot;Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.quot;-George Patton

23. ldquo;Pay attention to the itch. That feeling that there rsquo;s something else bigger out there for you, that you should be doing something else better for you ndash;that is a feeling that you have to pay attention to, you can rsquo;t ignore it.rdquo;-Ann Shoket

24. ldquo;The harder I practice, the luckier I get.rdquo;-Gary Player

25. ldquo;A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.rdquo;-Albert Einstein

26. quot;People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.quot;-Tony Robbins

27. ldquo;Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.rdquo;-Steve Jobs

28. ldquo;You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.rdquo;Dr. Seuss

29. ldquo;Some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all ndash;in which case, you fail by default.rdquo;-J.K. Rowling

30. ldquo;If you rsquo;re going through hell, keep going.rdquo;- Winston Churchill

31. ldquo;I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.rdquo;-Anna Freud

32. quot;All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.quot;-Mark Twain

33. ldquo;The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dreams, and how you handle disappointment along the way. -Robert Kiyosaki

34. ldquo;The future depends on what you do today.rdquo;-Mahatma Gandhi

35. quot;I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.quot;-Stephen Covey

36. ldquo;Everything I rsquo;ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.rdquo;David Foster Wallace

37. quot;Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It #39;s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn #39;t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember, that #39;s where you will find success.quot;- Thomas Watson

38. ldquo;Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.rdquo;-Dennis Waitley

39. ldquo;Ambition is the steam that drives men forward on the road to success. Only the engine under full steam can make the grade.rdquo;-Maxi Foreman

40. ldquo;Make sure your worst enemy doesn rsquo;t live between your own two ears.rdquo;Laird Hamilton

41. ldquo;Do or do not. There is no try.rdquo;-Yoda

42. quot;I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.quot;-Robert Collier

43. quot;When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down quot;happy.quot;They told me I didn #39;t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn #39;t understand life.quot;-John Lennon

44. ldquo;We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.rdquo;-Henry Link

45. quot;Don #39;t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles, and less than perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful.quot;-Mark Victor Hansen

46. ldquo;Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you rsquo;ve imagined.rdquo;-Henry David Thoreau

47. ldquo;It rsquo;s not about stepping out of your comfort zone, it rsquo;s about stepping into your lsquo;true rsquo;zone.rdquo;-Carol Parker Walsh

48. quot;Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.quot;-Thomas Jefferson

49. quot;Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.quot;-Nathaniel Hawthorne

50. quot;When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.quot;-Audre Lorde

Author

Amanda Covaleski

Amanda is a writer with experience in various industries, including travel, real estate, and career advice. After taking on internships and entry-level jobs, she is familiar with the job search process and landing that crucial first job. Included in her experience is work at an employer/intern matching startup where she marketed an intern database to employers and supported college interns looking for work experience.