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Motivational Career Quotes

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

George Bernard Shaw

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man.

James Cash Penney

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.

Steve Case

Wisconsin is very proud of the career and technical college system that we have back home.

Ron Kind

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.

Jessica Savitch

Career Success Quotes

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Brian Tracy

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

Paul J. Meyer

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

Helen Gurley Brown

If it was really successful, it was a life calling, a career I was excited about doing, so I didn't think the overall risk was anywhere near as high as what the reward was.

John Hickenlooper

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

Bianca Jagger

There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.

Lesley Garrett

But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

James MacArthur

It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.

Warren Cuccurullo

Career Change Quotes

A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.

Wilma Mankiller

This is not a change of career for me. Just an expansion of it. I have contracts and obligations and business partners who are counting on me. And I would only want to do another movie if it's as good as this one.

Claudia Schiffer

When I was about 17 or 18, I finally admitted to myself that I wasn't going to change. I didn't know what the consequences would be, but I had the definite feeling that it was going to wreck my Disney career.

Tommy Kirk

That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really.

Billy Bragg

I think the people who have really followed my career from the time I was seven years old can see my steady progress and see the type of person and athlete I am.

Marion Jones

One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.

Phil Hartman

As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.

Hermann Maier

Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.

Jody Watley

More Career Quotes

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

Nora Roberts

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

Orison Swett Marden

Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.

Solomon Ortiz

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.

Jesse Ventura

Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it.

Newt Gingrich

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

Jack Prelutsky

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

Abdul Kalam

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

Francis Ford Coppola

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Sidney Hook

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

Rick Warren

Any first lady can do whatever they want to do. In this country, people expect them to work on whatever they want or to have a career of their own.

Laura Bush

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.

Vinton Cerf

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

Harry Browne

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.

Mary McCarthy

The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

Dan Simmons

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

John Lasseter

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

Cathy Guisewite

We've been following Judge Alito's career over the last 15 years, while he's been on the Court of Appeals.

Jay Alan Sekulow

For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.

John Lothrop Motley

I think it's critical that you feel you're working for a person who is committed to advancing your career.

Andrea Jung

The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift!

Nigel Dennis

You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options.

Estelle Morris

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.

William Peter Blatty

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

Cathy Guisewite

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

Marie Curie

If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell.

Nicholas Mosley

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.

Allen Tate

My 6 years with Murdoch were pivotal for my entire research career.

Paul Nurse

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

Ruth Benedict

Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.

Mark Rydell

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.

Hillary Clinton

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

Charles M. Schwab

The truth will only be told over a career.

Richard Linklater

Don't think of your courses as providing all you need for your career.

Mike Thompson

There have been two Geraldo Riveras through his long career. One of them was a reporter who has done some remarkable work. The other was a television show host who did what it took to get an audience.

Brit Hume

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

Grace Paley

No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.

Mark Rydell

It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.

Goldwin Smith

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.

Bill Griffith

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

Sally Ride

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