The document contains quotes about careers, success, and work. Some key ideas expressed are:
- A successful career involves doing work that you enjoy and are passionate about.
- Hard work and perseverance are important for achieving success and overcoming failures.
- It is important to find work that makes you happy and fulfilled rather than just focusing on money or career advancement.
4. I determine to render more and better
service, each day, than I am being paid to
render. Those that reach the top are the
ones who are not content with doing only
what is required of them.
- Og Mandino
5. He knows nothing and thinks
he knows everything. That points
clearly to a political career.
- George Bernard Shaw
6. By working faithfully eight hours a
day you may eventually get to be a
boss and work twelve hours a day.
- Robert Frost
7. Don’t lament so much about how your
career is going to turn out. You don’t
have a career. You have a life. Do the
work. Keep the faith. Be true blue.
- Cheryl Strayed
8. Be true to what naturally interests
you – and be brave enough to turn
an obsession into a profession.
- Shelly Branch
19. The day will happen whether
or not you get up.
- John Ciardi
20. If you’re not the hero of your talent
story, you simply become a player in
one
you didn’t choose.
- Jay Perry
21. Find out what you like doing best
and get someone to pay you for
doing it.
- Katherine Whitehorn
22. I can not do everything, but I can do
something. I must not fail to do the
something that I can do.
- Helen Keller
23. I’ve missed more than 9,000 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
24. Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure
it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.
- Robert H. Schuller
25. The biggest mistake people make
is not making a living at doing what
they most enjoy.
- Malcom S. Forbes
26. The best way to predict the future is
to create it.
- Abraham Lincoln
27. Our greatest weakness lies in giving
up. The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
28. I think everyone should experience
defeat at least once during their
career. You learn a lot from it.
- Lou Holtz
29. I want to look back on my career and be
proud of the work, and be proud that I tried
everything.
- Jon Stewart
31. Your success depends on what you
do yourself, with your own means.
- P. T. Barnum
32. If you can DREAM it, you can DO it.
- Walt Disney
33. Desire! That’s the one secret of
every man’s career. Not education.
Not being born with hidden talents.
Desire.
- Johnny Carson
34. Your career is like a garden. It can
hold an assortment of life’s energy
that yields a bounty for you. You do
not need to grow just one thing in
your garden. You do not need to do
just one thing in your career.
- Jennifer Ritchie Payette
35. Find a job you like and you add five
days to every week.
- Jackson Brown, Jr.
36. One of the hardest thing you'll ever do
in life is work at a job you hate.
- ManifestYourPotential.com
37. A mind troubled by doubt cannot
focus on the course to victory.
- Arthur Golden
38. Success is how high you bounce when you
hit bottom.
- General George Patton
39. You will never feel 100% ready
when an opportunity arises. So just
do it.
- Unknown
40. If you don’t build your dream.
Someone will hire you to help build
theirs.
- Tony Gaskins
41. Every time you worry that you could
get trapped in some kind of work you
don’t care about, you’re dealing with
the problem of meaningfulness. I
guarantee that in the back of your
mind is the thought that somehow you
have to make a contribution to
something, be acknowledged, do
something that matters–or you’re just
fooling around.
- Barbara Sher
42. Don’t be in a hurry about finding
your work in the world for yourself -
you are not old enough to judge for
yourself yet; but just look about you
in the place you find yourself in,
and try to make things a little better
and honester there.
- Thomas Hughes
43. Nothing is work unless you'd rather be
doing something else.
- George Halas
44. Forget the risk and take the fall, if it’s
what you want, then it’s worth the
fall.
- Unknown
45. A good manager is a man who isn’t
worried about his own career but
rather the careers of those who
work for him.
- H. S. M. Burns
46. The difference between a job and a
career is the difference between forty
and sixty hours a week.
- Robert Frost
47. It's not that I’m so smart, it’s just
that I stay with problems longer.
- Albert Einstein
48. Every day I get up and look through the
Forbes list of the richest people in
America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben
49. The worst days of those who enjoy
what they do, are better than the
best days of those who don’t.
- E. James Rohn
50. The dictionary is the only place that
success comes before work. Hard
work is the price we must pay for
success. I think you can accomplish
anything if you're willing to pay the
price.
- Vince Lombardi
51. You have to learn the rules of the
game. And then you have to play
better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
52. Failure doesn't mean you are a
failure, it just means you haven't
succeeded yet.
- Robert H. Schuller
53. I think it would make the world a little bit
better place if everyone was doing what
they loved to do.... I'm doing it and I'm
loving it.
- Mark Polish
54. The beautiful thing about learning is
nobody can take it away from you.
- B. B. King
55. Do you want to sell sugar water for
the rest of your life or do you want to
come with me and change the world?
- Steve Jobs
56. If at first you don’t succeed, you are
running about average.
- M.H. Anderson
57. In order to succeed, your desire for
success should be greater than
your fear of failure.
- Bill Cosby
58. Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action
breeds confidence and courage. If you want
to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think
about it. Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie
59. The true way to render ourselves
happy is to love our work and find
in it our pleasure.
- Francoise Bertaut de Motteville
60. Think you can or think you can’t,
either way you will be right.
- Henry Ford
61. Don't ask yourself what the world
needs. Ask yourself what makes you
come alive and then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is
people who have come alive.
- Harold Thurman Whitman
79. People leave companies for two
reasons. One, they don't feel
appreciated. And two, they don't
get along with their boss.
- Adam Bryant, The Corner Office:
Indispensable and Unexpected
Lessons from CEOs on How to
Lead and Succeed
80. Experience shows that success is due
less to ability than to zeal. The winner is
he who gives himself to his work, body
and soul.
-Charles Buxton
81. To succeed... you need to find
something to hold on to, something to
motivate you, something to inspire
you.
- Tony Dorsett
82. Some people make enough, some people
don’t, and it has nothing to do with their
paycheck.
- Janene Murphy
83. When it comes to your talent, translate
the intangible into the tangible.
- Don Marusk
84. If you don't toot your own horn,
don't complain that there's no
music.
- Guy Kawasaki
85. I know the price of success; dedication,
hard work, and an unremitting devotion to
the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
86. I love my career. It is a career. A
difficult one that takes many hours
and total dedication to my craft. It
is also what I was born to do-tell
stories and entertain.
- Michelle M. Pillow
87. I have yet to hear a man ask for
advice on how to combine marriage
and a career.
- Gloria Steinem
88. Work for a cause, not for applause.
Live your life to express, not to
impress, don’t strive to make your
presence noticed, just make your
absence felt.