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23 Inspirational Career Quotes



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Inspiration lacking this Monday morning? Stuck in a job you hate? Un-employed, searching for a new job and feeling blue? Not sure what success means to you? You're not alone. Many people feel exactly the same way. Grab a nice, warm cup of coffee and let us help you out.




Inspirational career quotations will help you start your day on the right foot. These 23 inspirational career quotes might be just what you need to get inspired, re-evaluate your goals or simply give you a new perspective:


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1. "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it." – Steve Jobs


2. "I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." – Michael Jordan


3. "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the best." –John D. Rockefeller


4. "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." – Thomas Jefferson


5. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." – Steve Jobs


6. "If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up." -J.M. Power


7. "People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy." – Tony Robbins


8. "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


9. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."-Franklin D. Roosevelt


10. "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."-Maya Angelou





11. "It's not about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving."-Rocky Balboa


12. "The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters."- Dalai Lama


13. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."-Winston Churchill


14. "The sky is the limit." - Unknown


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15. "If your dream is big enough, the universe will conspire to make it happen." - Paulo Coelho


16. "You are never too old to set new goals or to dream a new dream." - C.S. Lewis


17. "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the best." -John D. Rockefeller


18. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."- Winston Churchill


19. "If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done." - Unknown


20. "We become what we think about most of the time." - Earl Nightingale





21. "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." - Sam Levenson


22. "You can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."- Ronald Reagan


23. "I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."- Michael Jordan


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We hope you enjoyed these inspirational career quotes. Do you have a favourite inspirational career quote? Please share it with us in the comments section below.


Did these quotes inspire you? Great! Now it's time to take action and get your dream job.


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