Personal development is a lifelong commitment to excellence. — Isaac Mashman
Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth. — Paul Clitheroe
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
Invest in yourself. Continuous learning and personal growth are key to success. — Steven Bartlett
Income seldom exceeds personal development. — Jim Rohn
It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times. — Ivanka Trump
Job training empowers people to realize their dreams and improve their lives. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves — Marshall Goldsmith
Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives. — Rudolf Steiner
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. — Harvey S. Firestone
You can go from job to career to calling – all without changing your occupation. — Angela Duckworth
If you are working or you are running a business you have to set aside time and money to invest in your continued formal education and skills acquisition. — Strive Masiyiwa
The only job security you have today os your commitment to continuous personal improvement. — Ken Blanchard
The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development. — Elliot W. Eisner
Short Career Development Quotes
Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource — Brian Tracy
Your career is what you're paid for. Your calling is what you're made for. — Steve Harvey
People want autonomy and control in their lives, especially when it comes to their careers. — Paul Jarvis
Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines. — Gary Sinise
The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. — Chris Hedges
In all you do, always strive to acquire skills that make you stand out and excel. — Folorunsho Alakija
A commitment to lifelong learning is a natural expression of the practice of living consciously. — Nathaniel Branden
Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental. — Bill Hybels
Commit to a career built on sacrifice, not compromise. — DeVon Franklin
The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.
Inspirational Career Development Quotes
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. — Thomas Jefferson
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work. — Denis Waitley
The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.
I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide. — Harper Lee
Career Path Quotes
Trust me, ... I know where my heart is and my heart's right here. I'm going to keep doing everything because I love to do it, but I will never sacrifice my time between the ropes. That's no shot to anybody. Everybody's got different career paths. This is mine. — John Cena
Decisions are a way of defining ourselves. There comes a time in life when there is nothing else to do but go your own way. Where you are headed there are no trails, no paths, just your own instincts. — Sergio Bambaren
If you want to be a creative person, then you’re gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together. There isn’t a path. Part of the creativity is making your path. — Alec Soth
Begin to be what you will be hereafter.
I’m a firm believer that you don’t have to pick one career path. — Hannah Bronfman
At quite uncertain times and places,
The atoms left their heavenly path,
And by fortuitous embraces,
Engendered all that being hath.
And though they seem to cling together,
And form 'associations' here,
Yet, soon or late, they burst their tether,
And through the depths of space career. — James Clerk Maxwell
A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you. — Tom Freston
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see. — Wilma Mankiller
The most direct path to achievement whether you're an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a great performer and a great team member. This is also the secret to a meaningful career and self-fulfillment. — Maynard Webb
I’ve always wanted to be a footballer, and I’ve always believed that’s the path I was going to go down. — Harry Kane
Life is like photography we develop from the negatives.
My advice for achieving success is to make a career choice that reflects your passion. Then work your craft a little bit each day - even if someone's not paying you to do it. Try to balance your social life with your educational (or professional) life, and have patience. — Giancarlo Esposito
I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do — Summer Sanders
Many years ago when I first started my career Maradona told me "to enjoy and play as you know", and that's stayed with me ever since and is the best advice I've been given. — Lionel Messi
The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.
Hollywood is fickle; your career can end pretty fast. If the acting jobs dry up, you have to have something to fall back on. In fact, that would be my advice to kids interested in acting - make sure you get an education too. — Matthew Lawrence
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. — Gloria Steinem
What I find really difficult is making career decisions. Normally it will take me two weeks, until the very last minute and I have to say yes or no. For a couple of weeks, I will tune everyone out who is giving me advice, so that I can make a clear decision on my own and it takes time. — Paul Walker
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory. — Arthur Golden
Career Opportunities Quotes
When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity...you do not slam it shut behind you...you reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed. — Michelle Obama
Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, there’s still a thing called opportunity, and that’s what people need to pursue. — Mike Rowe
Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger. — Kgalema Motlanthe
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the stepping stones to success.
With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that really helped me were all the people who had given me an opportunity when I was putting my career together. — Nile Rodgers
I am incredibly grateful for the opportunities Vine has given me. — Logan Paul
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition. — Mark Twain
Good leaders develop ideas.Great leaders develop people.The best leaders develop new leaders.
I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career. — Verne Troyer
It was very easy to convince me to take on the job of character designer for 'Dragon Quest.' — Akira Toriyama
To play for Barcelona, means to have an opportunity for a brilliant career. But to reach the top of it, you have to play for Real Madrid. — Luis Figo
I think fame is one of those things where you have a window of opportunity and you have a certain amount of trust from the fans and without that you don't have a career. — Patrick Dempsey
Professional Development Quotes
When it comes to nurturing professional relationships and developing a community, LinkedIn is one of the best resources. — Lewis Howes
I've developed a much greater respect for our politicians and every high-tech CEO. — Michael Saylor
Professionally, the demands of your roles are growing faster than you, which is causing all the stress. To overcome stress, focus on upgrading your competence. To develop competence, you have to work on all the 3: Attitude, Skill, Knowledge. — Mahatria Ra
Life is like photography, you use the negatives to develop
Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised. — Brit Hume
I want to keep developing. I want to become relaxed in my own work and go deeper. Just growing and studying and trying new things and hopefully having professional access to work that's good and interesting. I don't want to be on the treadmill of artificiality. — Sayings
One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development. — Brian Tracy
Personal growth and professional development require mostly being treated like an adult, which is pretty much the opposite of what happens in most workplaces. People need to be able to make decisions. To do that effectively, they need information and training in how to use it. — Jeffrey Pfeffer
I know reels can be expensive but even if you construct one on your own if you don't have enough money to get a more professional one while you're getting started, as far as college animators go or young indie developers I don't think they are going to care if you have the highest quality reel yet. — Ashly Burch
A treasure trove for parents and for professionals in the child-development fields. — Jeffrey K. Zeig
Continuous personal and professional development is your key to the future. — Brian Tracy
Career Success Quotes
Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!" — T. D. Jakes
Beloved, pursue Jesus and you will experience wisdom in every area of your life. You cannot try to earn, deserve or study to acquire God’s wisdom. It comes by His unmerited favor. His wisdom will give you good success in your career. It will cause you to succeed as a student, parent or spouse. — Joseph Prince
I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do. — Helen Keller
giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job for a superwoman, and only some such fabled being could have accomplished it with success. — Storm Jameson
The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality. — Bobby Fischer
I think that there is a lot of power in a gay guy having a really (hopefully) successful music career while just being completely openly gay and honest and happy. — Troye Sivan
Hustle until you don’t need an introduction. — Tom Bilyeu
Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success. — Paul J. Meyer
Do what you love and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career. — Meg Whitman
Career Goals Quotes
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. — Tony Robbins
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals. — Brian Tracy
I want to be one of the biggest social media stars ever to become an actor. — Jake Paul
My goal there on the business side of things is to become the Dr. Dre of social media. He was mentoring younger artists and helping them launch their careers, like Eminem. — Jake Paul
I think that to prepare for a career, it is important to have a goal. — Bernard Arnault
I believe you really do need to be 360 in this industry. And being just a Vine creator was not my goal. — Logan Paul
Throughout my athletic career, the overall goal was always to be a better athlete than I was at the moment – whether next week, next month or next year. The improvement was the goal. The medal was simply the ultimate reward for achieving that goal. — Sebastian Coe
There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent. — Joe Strummer
The fruit we wish to pick tomorrow lies hidden in the seed of today. The goals we are to read and the problems we are to solve tomorrow depend upon today's diligence, hope and faith, today's conviction of the almightiness of good. — Ralph Johnson
I used to think that my career was to be a police officer, and that is what I was put here to do. But I always kept the faith and always worked hard on my goals and I finally found out on Sept. 25, 1998, why I was put here - (God) called me here to be Mr. Olympia. — Ronnie Coleman
I feel ups and downs are a part of one's career, and this totally depends on how you take it. You can either be knocked down by the negative things, or you can take it in a positive way and learn from it. — Deepika Padukone
Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them. — Terence Stamp
Either I will find a way, or I will make one. — Philip Sidney
What is success? I think the most important thing is to achieve what you set out to achieve. Just being a CEO in itself is not success. I would not relate success to a title or a position. My career has had a level of serendipity all along. I've never planned anything out more than a few years. — Paul Polman
Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion that it could, in effect, be made illegal to imply ridicule of a religion or to lampoon religious figures. — Rowan Atkinson
In business, your positive thoughts and lifestyle choices lead to your personal success and your career success. — Jeffrey Gitomer
A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences. — John Lasseter
I know that, as captain, you are in a privileged position and must always abide by Fifa's code of fair play, something which I have always done throughout my career. — David Beckham
I have played on many teams throughout my career, and I know when a team has the tools, and the right positive attitude towards winning. — Boomer Esiason
Thatcher was the motivation for my entire political career. I hated everything she stood for. — Nicola Sturgeon
I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it. — Arthur L. Williams, Jr.
In your career you have a lot of good moments and bad ones. The important thing is to have enough motivation to keep working all the days with humility and trying to be a better player than before. I am going to try to continue doing this. — Rafael Nadal
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. — Steve Jobs
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. — Paul J. Meyer
I immediately loved flying from my first flight and knew that in some way it was going to be a part of my future career! — Fred Haise
I started my career with a loss, getting ‘slapped’ by life. — Amanda Nunes
I’m never trying to break a career high out there. — Kawhi Leonard
Professional Career Quotes
Coming from losing my dream of playing professional football, not having a college degree at the time, and looking to jump into the business world at a young age was pretty daunting for me. — Lewis Howes
Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it. — Katharine Whitehorn
You can often find success at the intersection of passion and expertise. — Cliff Lerner
I don’t want to come to the end of my career and have any regrets, I want to be the best I can be. — Harry Kane
Don't confuse having a career with having a life. — Hillary Clinton
I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship. — Major Taylor
At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin. — Rita Levi-Montalcini
Teaching math and science ought to be a professional activity in which those professionals are well-paid and happy to do that as a career. — Jim Simons
Just about any occupation can be a job, career, or calling. — Angela Duckworth
The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough. — Andy Rooney
Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person - hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre - into an outstanding performer. — Peter Drucker
The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks- they spend a lot of time talking in pubs, unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does. — Shane MacGowan
I boxed in the amateurs before getting into submission fighting and got hooked. Actually, I owned three boxing gyms in Vegas. I trained and managed fighters and had a sports management company. One day I met Tito Ortiz and Chuck Liddell, who I started representing, and I got into this huge contract negotiation with Bob Meyerwitz, the former owner of Tito Ortiz’s contract. Through that, Bob and I developed a mutual respect for one another. — Dana White
The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them. — Taylor Dane
In short, I have spent much of my career working on vaccine development. I have also had extensive experience in drug repurposing for infectious disease outbreaks. My contributions to science and industry are outstanding. I am proud of my contributions. My friendships and connections with professional colleagues have persisted for years. So, when I am defamed by the New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, or others, I know that there is more driving their character assassination attempts than efforts to report actual truth. These attacks are not about me personally, but rather about me speaking outside of the approved government and WHO/WEF narrative concerning COVID-19 policies. — Robert W. Malone
Embracing failure is the most important trait I've developed in my career. I have tried to learn from my failures, and I believe it has made me stronger, more confident and more resilient. — Reshma Saujani
I have been criticized throughout the course of my career for placing too much faith in the reliability of children's narratives; but I have almost always found that children are a great deal more reliable in telling us what actually goes on in public school than many of the adult experts who develop policies that shape their destinies. — Jonathan Kozol
I need to be in a stable environment right now in my career. What I mean by that is a place where I can play and not have too much pressure on me and a place I can develop. Monaco wanted me and did whatever they could to get me so I feel very very good about that. — Freddy Adu
In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private interests, learn about the world around them, develop a sense of civic and social responsibility, and discover how they can contribute to the common good? — Ernest L. Boyer
There is a difference between image and reputation. Image is nice. Reputation is developed over an entire career. Reputation is what I'm searching for. — Alex Rodriguez
I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress. — Kathleen Turner
To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) .... It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational processes that "overcome" such irregularities-don't bother telling that to a consultant. Hence, we should embrace the real, nonrational, nonlinear world with vigor and glee-and develop enterprise and career strategies accordingly. — Tom Peters
TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics. — Ambrose Bierce
As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances. — Peter Snell
You have the mainstream bourgeois life of the U.S., Europe, the "developed" world - the life of technology, education, mortgages, careers, a certain level of physical comfort - while on the other hand, several billion people on the planet exist on less than a dollar a day. That's a huge and terrible reality to get your head around. — Ben Fountain
Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other. — Ivy Baker Priest
There are many aspects about what and why we photograph: visual pleasure, personal empathy, intellectual stimulation, technical excellence, etc. Serious photographers and artists will try to create works that are original. Over a career period they may develop a singular identity in their images. — Michael Kenna
I've been told throughout my career that I have good instincts, and the idea of discovery and development in terms of a new artist is so exciting to me. Being only 25 and in a position where I might be able to grant opportunities is really cool. — Louis Tomlinson
I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and surrounded myself with a small group of friends I could trust. — Douglas Wood
Surrendered people enjoy life, relish their personal development, and value their friends. They may have an exceptionally good career and be wealthy, but they are more concerned with meaning and fulfillment. The drive to acquire money and power is a behavior that drains people of their passion and emotional connection to others. — Judith Orloff
What one skill, if you developed it, could have the greatest positive impact on your career? This is the key to your future. — Brian Tracy
It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot. Many to whom the first victory over the opponent has been long denied either by unfortunate circumstances or by bad luck can suffer from frustration or develop complexes they may never rid themselves of again. — Adolf Galland
The leaders in business and
industry all have at least one thing
in common - they are mentally
strong. Mental strength is an
absolute prerequisite for a
successful, commercial career in
our fast moving world. Although
there are relatively few people
who develop mental strength,
anyone can. — Bob Proctor
As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it's a fine balance between trying to just work, and also be true to yourself. — Rachel True
The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline. — Philippe Perrin
A career is a portfolio of projects that teach you new skills, gain you new expertise, develop new capabilities, grow your colleague set, and constantly reinvent you as a brand. — Tom Peters
Coaches give you too much information. Ive been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime. — Tiffeny Milbrett
The development of science has produced an industrial revolution which has brought different peoples in such close contact with one another through colonization and commerce that no matter how some nations may still look down upon others, no country can harbor the illusion that its career is decided wholly within itself. — John Dewey
Games have grown and developed from this limited in-the-box experience to something that's everywhere now. Interactive content is all around us, networked, ready. This is something I've been hoping for throughout my career. — Shigeru Miyamoto
You cannot earn money from any artistic career. You have to spend all the time if you want to develop, and keep presenting shows that are always better, always new. — Nagwa Fouad
I consider Tarantino a great director. I am very fond of my collaboration with him and the relationship we have developed during the time we have spent together. He is courageous and has an enormous personality. I credit Tarantino for being one of the people responsible for getting me an Oscar, which is for sure one of the greatest acknowledgments of my career. — Ennio Morricone
A lot of young girls don't realise how diverse the career opportunities are in games development. Many think that you need elite math skills and a vast knowledge of all things tech to work in games, and haven't thought about avenues like design, producing, art, writing or composing. — Rhianna Pratchett
Being an immigrant and staring life over, you learn to be a survivor and how to face your challenges and basically overcome them. And that has been a great skill set that I've developed and has helped me in my career. — Anousheh Ansari
A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development. — Agnes Repplier
I'm still working on my career, still trying to learn from other artistes and develop my skills and my style. — Sean Paul
My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you. — Robin S. Sharma
Throughout my career, when I was finished with the drawing for one film I would go up to the story department and help develop sequences. Sometimes these were for scenes that I would animate later on. — Marc Davis
The improv technique does one of two things. It either makes you raise your game, or retreat into a corner and decide to find a new career. But you do feel like you want to match and develop things. — Tom Hollander
It's impossible to overstate how important social media has been to me and the development of my career. The fact that I can go and play venues that hold 25,000 people and sell them out is crazy.I don't have music on the radio. I'm not a pop culture icon. I'm just this kid making dance music. And yet I still can sell out massive arenas. It's truly incredible, and I think a lot of that is because of social media. — Kaskade
My career is a development and that's a big thing because when I decided this was what I wanted to do it wasn't like "I want to be a rapper, I love the words and the beats in my headphones" it was more I wanted to live for music. I love music and I just want to be around it. — Grieves
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