Top 200 Inspirational Career Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.”

— Napoleon Hill

102. “Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success.”

— Arianna Huffington

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

— B.C. Forbes

104. “Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.”

— Barack Obama

105. “All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.”

— Earl Nightingale

106. “The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall. ”

— Vince Lombardi

107. “My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn.”

— Michael Jordan

108. “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

— John Wooden

109. “As You Think, So Shall You Be.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

110. “Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”

— Brian Tracy

111. “If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.”

— Thomas J. Watson

112. “Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.”

— Les Brown

113. “You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.”

— Jim Rohn

114. “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”

— Jack Canfield

115. “I challenge you. Be obsessed with improvement!”

— Eric Thomas

116. “A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.”

— Oprah Winfrey

117. “Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”

— Brian Tracy

118. “Leadership is influence.”

— John C. Maxwell

119. “The true measure of leadership is influence – nothing more, nothing less.”

— John C. Maxwell

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

— Denis Waitley

121. “All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”

— Brian Tracy

122. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”

— Steve Jobs

123. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”

— Oprah Winfrey

124. “It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”

— John Wooden

125. “It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.”

— Vince Lombardi

126. “The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.”

— John C. Maxwell

127. “If you can visualize it, if you can dream it, there’s some way to do it.”

— Walt Disney

128. “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

129. “If you can’t do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.”

— William H. McRaven

130. “The more intentional you are about your leadership growth, the greater your potential for becoming the leader you’re capable of being. Never stop learning.”

— John C. Maxwell

131. “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

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

— Robert Frost

133. “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Max Ehrmann

135. “The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. ”

— Vince Lombardi

136. “No matter how bad it is, or how bad it gets, I’m going to make it.”

— Les Brown

137. “You will never ever be successful, until you turn your pain into greatness, until you allow your pain to push you from where you are to push you to where you need to be. Stop running from your pain and embrace your pain. Your pain is going to be a part of your prize, a part of your product. I challenge you to push yourself.”

— Eric Thomas

138. “Never lower your target ; increase your actions.”

— Grant Cardone

139. “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

140. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

— Zig Ziglar

141. “Don’t be afraid to fail big, to dream big.”

— Denzel Washington

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

— Biz Stone

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

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

144. “It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”

— William Ernest Henley

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

— Tina Fey

146. “At the end of pain is SUCCESS!”

— Eric Thomas

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

— Chris Hedges

148. “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.”

— Earl Nightingale

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

— Abdul Kalam

150. “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