Top 200 Inspirational Career Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Making a living is not the same thing as making a life.”

— Maya Angelou

152. “If you can accept losing, you can’t win.”

— Vince Lombardi

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

— Mary Kay Ash

154. “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

155. “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.”

— Brian Tracy

156. “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

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

— Pat Riley

158. “I hate that word – “lucky.” It cheapens a lot of hard work. Living in Brooklyn in an apartment without any heat and paying for dinner at the bodega with dimes – I don’t think I felt myself lucky back then. Doing plays for 50 bucks and trying to be true to myself as an artist and turning down commercials where they wanted a leprechaun. Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who’s freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn. So I won’t say I’m lucky. I’m fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them, and they found me.”

— Peter Dinklage

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

— Steve Harvey

160. “Set a goal to become a millionaire for what it makes of you to achieve it. Do it for the skills you have to learn and the person you have to become.”

— Jim Rohn

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

— Rick Warren

162. “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

163. “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

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

— Stephen R. Covey

165. “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

166. “In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”

— Warren Buffett

167. “My career is my girlfriend.”

— Aaron Carter

168. “Believe that you will succeed, and you will.”

— Dale Carnegie

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

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Sheryl Sandberg

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Charlie Chaplin

173. “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

174. “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

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

— Garry Kasparov

176. “If you have a dream, you’ve got to protect it.”

— Chris Gardner

177. “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

178. “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

179. “Model the behavior you wish more people would display. Lead first.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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

— Indra Nooyi

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

— Jon Krakauer

182. “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

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

184. “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

185. “Success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else.”

— John C. Maxwell

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

— Confucius

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

— Charlie Munger

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

— Milton Berle

189. “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

190. “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

191. “Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Charlie Munger

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

— Anonymous

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

— Tim Notke

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

— Deepak Chopra

196. “Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivation a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.”

— Zig Ziglar

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

— Sheryl Sandberg

198. “Everybody has a dream, but not everybody has a grind.”

— Eric Thomas

199. “There are always people who will be better at something than you are. You have to learn to be a follower before you become a leader.”

— Charlie Munger

200. “Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets – and can be lost in a heartbeat.”

— Charlie Munger