Motivational Career Quotes

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  One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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  If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

  Colin Powell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.198, Ballantine Books

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• If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Motivating Humans : Goals, Emotions, and Personal Agency Beliefs". Book by Martin E. Ford, 1992.

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  Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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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• Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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  It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• I've missed more than 9000 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

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• You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations". Book by William S. Walsh, 1951.

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• It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.

  Carlton Fisk

  Powerful, Careers, New Job

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• Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Weakness, Problem, Drive And Determination

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• The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• The harder I work the more I live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Good Luck, True Joy

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• You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Positive, Art

  "Conversations with Maya Angelou". Book by Jeffrey M. Elliot, 1989.

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• If you're hurt, lick your wounds and get up again. If you've given it your absolute best, it's time to move forward.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Hurt, Business

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Mar 20, 2013

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• I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.

  Jon Stewart

  Careers, Looks, Want

  Orange County Register, July 9, 1999.

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• Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Work hard at work worth doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Day Jobs, Labor Day

  Theodore Roosevelt (1967). “Writings”

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• Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Motivational, Careers, New Job

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