Careers Quotes - Page 2

• If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

  Brian Tracy

  Life, Motivational, Inspiration

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from May 04, 2014

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• I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Ideas, Would Be, Able

  "Philip Seymour Hoffman Dies" by James White, www.empireonline.com. February 3, 2014.

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• Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all love coming back. As soon as the TV show is over, I'll be back in Chicago, doing live theater.

  William Petersen

  First Love, Tv Shows, Chicago

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Running, Winning

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• I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.

  John Hewson

  Stress, Working Very Hard, Wife

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The coolest thing is that my sister and I, you know, we've done what a lot of people have not been able to do. Which is to have our own careers, together.

  Tia Mowry

  Sister, People, Together

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• The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

  Ron Perlman

  Birthday, Age, Arriving

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• The decisions you make about your work life are especially important, since most people spend more of their waking lives working than doing anything else. Your choices will affect, not only yourself and those closest to you, but in some way the whole world.

  Laurence Boldt

  Decisions You Make, People, Choices

  Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.218, Penguin

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• To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Community Service, Helping, Common

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• The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

  James Woods

  Independent, Film, Has Beens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

  George Eliot

  Success, Congratulations, Thinking

  George Eliot “Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2”, Lulu.com

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• Even now I can say I'd love to finish my career here, and then stay in the game after that.

  Steven Gerrard

  Soccer, Stay Strong, Games

  "Sven's samurai". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2002.

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• Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Work

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• I was always acting primarily with shareholder interests in mind.
  It's also true I've always had a fairly moralistic attitude to business, and would not do anything that I considered improper.
  As a consequence, I have occasionally pursued issues during my career that other people might have avoided.

  Chris Corrigan

  Inspirational, Attitude, Business

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• I spent most of my career, including my time at McKinsey, never acknowledging that I was a woman. And, you know, fast forward - I'm 43 now - fitting in is not helping us.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Work, Women, Helping

  "Sheryl Sandberg: 'No one can have it all'". Interview with Joanna Barsh, alumni.mckinsey.com. April 24, 2013.

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• Remember: Jobs are owned by the company; you own your #‎ career !

  Earl Nightingale

  Jobs, Remember, Best Work

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.164, Lulu.com

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• People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

  John Dos Passos

  People

  1959 In the NewYork Times, 25 Oct.

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• You should not confuse your career with your life.

  Dave Barry

  Work, Farewell, Confusion

  Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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• The harder I work the more I live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Good Luck, True Joy

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• Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

  Johnny Carson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

  Frances McDormand

  Worry

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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