Career quotes

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◆ Your career and life will change for the better when you learn to surround yourself with positive people and keep the negative ones away.

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◆ Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

- Ayn Rand100

◆ A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

- James Bryce99

◆ For many people a job is more than an income, it's an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life.

- Paul Clitheroe99

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

- Lou Holtz99

◆ Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

- Buddha99

◆ Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it. Become a dedicated fighter for civil rights. Make it a central part of your life. It will make you a better doctor, a better lawyer, a better teacher. It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man. Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

- Martin Luther King Jr99

◆ A career is born in public, talent in privacy.

- Marilyn Monroe99

◆ You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public.

- Celia Cruz99

◆ I don't want to get into the habit of thinking about my career because when it comes down to it, it's not that important. I could die tomorrow and the world would go on. I don't want to separate myself from the rest of the world. If the world is not going too good, I'm part of that. I'll be happy to take the blame. I'm along for the ride.

- River Phoenix99

◆ Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

- Steve Jobs99

◆ To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happiness as the world provides. One of the fortunate aspects of this formula is that, granted the right career has been found, the hard work takes care of itself. Then hard work is not hard work at all.

- Mark Sullivan99

◆ Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

- Rick Warren99

◆ The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

- Earl Nightingale99

◆ Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

- Abdul Kalam99