Top 50 Inspirational Career Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Meg Whitman

2. “Kill time and you will kill your career.”

— B.C. Forbes

3. “Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.”

— Denis Waitley

4. “A job is how you make money. A career is how you make your mark. A calling is how you acknowledge a higher vision, whatever it may be.”

— Deepak Chopra

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5. “Believe in yourself and back yourself to come out on top. A fulfilling career is waiting for those brave enough to find it.”

— Richard Branson

6. “The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.”

— Robert Frost

7. “Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.”

— Max Ehrmann

8. “Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.”

— Ray Bradbury

9. “Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.”

— Biz Stone

10. “How you earn your money and build your career is how you earn your destiny and build your legacy.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

11. “Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.”

— Tina Fey

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

— Abdul Kalam

13. “The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.”

— Chris Hedges

14. “Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn.”

— Stephen Hawking

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15. “People are afraid of things they don’t understand. They don’t know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.”

— Bill Laswell

16. “Making a living is not the same thing as making a life.”

— Maya Angelou

17. “I wouldn’t count it out, but right now I feel like my career is still just starting. The best years are yet to come.”

— Phil Ivey

18. “God first, family second, career third.”

— Mary Kay Ash

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19. “Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.”

— Pat Riley

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

— Rick Warren

21. “My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.”

— Hans Selye

22. “At some point in your career, someone is going to tell you, “This stove is hot. Do not touch this stove.” And the weird thing is, you’ll want to touch it. But resist that urge, man.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

23. “Your career is what you’re paid for. Your calling is what you’re made for.”

— Steve Harvey

24. “Almost every problem people face in their careers and other aspects of their lives – such as failed diets, marriages, and financial problems – are all the result of not taking enough action.”

— Grant Cardone

25. “My career is my girlfriend.”

— Aaron Carter

26. “Life is a mission, not a career.”

— Stephen R. Covey

27. “Don’t confuse having a career with having a life.”

— Hillary Clinton

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28. “The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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29. “Do not worry about your career. Concern yourself with your vocation, and that is to be lovers of Jesus.”

— Mother Teresa

30. “I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.”

— Charlie Chaplin

31. “From the beginning of your career until the end, you have people telling you, you can’t do something or you’re only going to get so far. That either drives you to be become the best or it stops you at the stipulations that other people have for you.”

— Dominick Cruz

32. “I only wish to climb even higher during the rest of my career bc with the power of Team Grimmie, I won’t stop.”

— Christina Grimmie

33. “Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before.”

— Garry Kasparov

34. “It’s time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.”

— Alan Watts

35. “I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me.”

— George Michael

36. “The biological clock and the career clock are in total conflict with each other.”

— Indra Nooyi

37. “Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don’t want one.”

— Jon Krakauer

38. “My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I’ve either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.”

— Judy Garland

39. “Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

40. “What I love about the gay thing is that every single person I type into Google, it doesn’t matter if it’s Florence Welch, anybody, if you are not being called gay you don’t have a career. That’s my theory!”

— Daniel Radcliffe

41. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

— Confucius

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42. “The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.”

— Charlie Munger

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43. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”

— Milton Berle

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44. “You don’t have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long time.”

— Charlie Munger

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45. “People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.”

— Warren Buffett

46. “Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you’re really going to excel in it.”

— Charlie Munger

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47. “Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.”

— Anonymous

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48. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”

— Tim Notke

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49. “If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.”

— Deepak Chopra

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50. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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