Top 200 Inspirational Career Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Do what you love and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career.”

— Meg Whitman

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2. “Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for inspiration. 4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go up.”

— John C. Maxwell

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3. “Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.”

— Abdul Kalam

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4. “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

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5. “The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

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6. “A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. A mentor is someone who allows you to know that no matter how dark the night, in the morning joy will come. A mentor is someone who allows you to see the higher part of yourself when sometimes it becomes hidden to your own view.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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7. “If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren’t willing to do.”

— Michael Phelps

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8. “When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.”

— Zig Ziglar

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9. “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.”

— Steve Jobs

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10. “The key of success is for you to set one big, challenging goal and then to pay any price, overcome any obstacle and persist through any difficulty until you finally achieve it.”

— Brian Tracy

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11. “Be hungry for success, hungry to make your mark, hungry to be seen and to be heard and to have an effect. And as you move up and become successful, make sure also to be hungry for helping others.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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12. “Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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13. “There are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.”

— Colin Powell

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14. “Chase the vision, not the money. The money will end up following you.”

— Tony Hsieh

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15. “Small daily improvements over time create stunning results.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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16. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.”

— Michael Jordan

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17. “If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later!”

— Richard Branson

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18. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”

— Henry Ford

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19. “The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They’re full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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20. “A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.”

— Napoleon Hill

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21. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

— Steve Jobs

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22. “Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. It will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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23. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

— Helen Keller

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24. “You can’t sleep. Broke people sleep. You got to be willing to sacrifice sleep, if you sleep you may miss the opportunity to be successful.”

— Eric Thomas

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25. “So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”

— Caterina Fake

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26. “That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

— Steve Jobs

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27. “Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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28. “Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”

— Bruce Lee

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29. “Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.”

— George Washington

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30. “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”

— Jeff Bezos

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31. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

— Maya Angelou

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32. “Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you’ve got talents, no one can take them from you.”

— Warren Buffett

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33. “Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress; working hard for something we love is called passion.”

— Simon Sinek

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34. “Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.”

— Jim Rohn

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35. “Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.”

— Zig Ziglar

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36. “If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”

— Jim Rohn

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37. “We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.”

— Abdul Kalam

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38. “Dream, dream, dream. Dreams transform into thoughts and thoughts result in action.”

— Abdul Kalam

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39. “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”

— Steve Jobs

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40. “Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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41. “Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds.”

— Napoleon Hill

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42. “You can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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43. “Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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44. “Start going the extra mile and opportunity will follow you.”

— Napoleon Hill

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45. “We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are.”

— Jim Rohn

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46. “Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.”

— Brian Tracy

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47. “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”

— Randy Pausch

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48. “Whatever good things we build end up building us.”

— Jim Rohn

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49. “Screw it. Let's do it.”

— Richard Branson

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50. “Your life only gets better when you get better.”

— Brian Tracy

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