167 Career Goals Quotes

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Famous Career Goals Quotes

I'm a very goal-oriented person. — CM Punk

The goal is to do things that are exciting and respectable. — Jared Kushner

What keeps me going is goals. - Muhammad Ali

What keeps me going is goals. — Muhammad Ali

My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones. - Kiana Tom

My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones. — Kiana Tom

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience — Henry Ford

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going. - Earl Nightingale

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going. — Earl Nightingale

My ambition is to be happy. - Penelope Cruz

My ambition is to be happy. — Penelope Cruz

The goals and successes of my professional life pale in comparison to my personal goals of an eternal family, receiving exaltation and being with the Savior again. — LaVell Edwards

Goals help you channel your energy into action. - Les Brown

Goals help you channel your energy into action. — Les Brown

Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals. - LL Cool J

Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals. — LL Cool J

To reach your own goals and dreams, you must learn how to assist others in reaching theirs — Joe Gibbs

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life. — Les Brown

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. - Brian Tracy

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. — Brian Tracy

For me, once the goals was set I had to try and do my best to achieve it. — Martyn Ford

Great goals make great people. People cannot hit what they do not aim for. — Roy T. Bennett

Short Career Goals Quotes

  • Always have a goal, always have a second plan. — Cardi B
  • A goal is a dream with a deadline. — Napoleon Hill
  • Commit to a career built on sacrifice, not compromise. — DeVon Franklin
  • We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles — Jim Rohn
  • The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them — Jim Rohn
  • A goal is a dream with a timeframe on it. — Dan Miller
  • Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. — Brian Tracy
  • Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals. — Paul J. Meyer
  • Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there. — Bo Jackson
  • Our aspirations are our possibilities. — Robert Browning

Career Goals Image Quotes

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Achieving 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

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals. — Brian Tracy

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

I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away. — Dana Perino

Experimental artists build their skills gradually over the course of their careers, improving their work slowly over long periods. These artists are perfectionists and are typically plagued by frustration at their inability to achieve their goals. — David Galenson

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile. — Gary Ryan Blair

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday. — Virat Kohli

What Are Your Goals Quotes

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks. — Deepak Chopra

Whoever you are, no matter what social position you have, rich or poor, always show great strength and determination, and always do everything with much love and deep faith in God. One day you will reach your goal. — Ayrton Senna

If you want to become a millionaire fast, do this; Determine what you are willing to sacrifice on the altar of your goals. Then sacrifice them. This will give you all the room to double down on one thing. — Alex Hormozi

The dreams that you hold for your future are what you dream about at night. They’re always at the back of your mind. They’re what your heart desires. They keep you going. Accept reality and have a backup plan, but always follow your dreams no matter what. — Miley Cyrus

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals. — Brian Tracy

Limits are possibilities. ... Formal restrictions, contrary to what you might think, free you up by allowing you to concentrate on purer ideas. ... You can be crippled by too many choices, especially if you don't know what your goals are. — Chip Kidd

It doesn't matter where you came from, it doesn't matter how poor you are, it doesn't matter where your family was. It all doesn't matter. You can achieve anything if you have really clear goals and if you work really hard to learn what you need to learn. — Brian Tracy

Set a goal and make a commitment to meet that goal. Do the best you can, but never forget your roots, never forget where you came from. After you have succeeded, look back and see if there are others that you might help to achieve what you have accomplished. — Larry Holmes

The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do. — Brian Tracy

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life. — Joseph Campbell

Career Motivation Quotes

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln

The worst thing you can do is nothing. - Terry Pratchett

The worst thing you can do is nothing. — Terry Pratchett

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. — Neale Donald Walsch

I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do. — Helen Keller

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. — Thomas A. Edison

Thatcher was the motivation for my entire political career. I hated everything she stood for. — Nicola Sturgeon

The harder I work the more I live. - George Bernard Shaw

The harder I work the more I live. — George Bernard Shaw

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.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition. — Mark Twain

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

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

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

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

I never wanted to go to college. — MrBeast

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

Career Development Quotes

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

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

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 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

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

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

Future Goals Quotes

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. — John Dewey

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead. - Samuel Beckett

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead. — Samuel Beckett

Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here. — Lao Tzu

I don’t know about you, but who I am today is not enough for me in 5 years. — Tom Bilyeu

At this historical juncture, it is important that we in the Asia-Pacific face up to the responsibility of the times, be in the driver’s seat, and strive hard to meet the goal of building an APEC region with a shared future. — Xi Jinping

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it. - Bill Cosby

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it. — Bill Cosby

If we can develop the ability to be aware of the present moment, we can use the past as a guide for ordering our actions in the future, so that we may attain our goal. — S. N. Goenka

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. — Robert M. Pirsig

By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own. — Mark Victor Hansen

My goal for the future isn’t to avoid mistakes, it’s for the mistakes I do make to be my own. — Tim Urban

Life Goal Quotes

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects. - Albert Einstein

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects. — Albert Einstein

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau

I love being part of something that is working toward a greater goal, and there's no more satisfaction in life than achieving those goals as a team and being a part of that team. — Jim Harbaugh

My main goal in life is to just be happy. I don't compromise my happiness for anything. If I find what makes me happy I'm going to do that. That's really going with the flow of life. As far as like the mainstream stuff, if my destiny takes me there and I end up going that route, then that's fine. — Jhene Aiko

Every day is a new opportunity to reach that goal. - Rick Ross

Every day is a new opportunity to reach that goal. — Rick Ross

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. — Michelangelo

In order not to end up like the masses out there who are merely wandering and unsure of their goals and dreams, your objective must be clear. When your purpose is clear, your life will have meaning. — T. B. Joshua

The supreme purpose and goal for human life... is to cultivate love. — Ramakrishna

We need spirited, energetic and strong young people whose hearts are filled with life, enthusiasm, zeal and dynamism; whose souls are full of ambition, aspiration and vigor and have great goals, rising and aspiring to reach them until they eventually arrive at their destination. — Hassan al-Banna

Do not wish for an easy life. Wish for the strength to endure a difficult one. Achieve your life life goals.Bruce Lee

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

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

Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth. — Paul Clitheroe

I get to do what I want. And I get paid millions of dollars to do it. — Jake Paul

Career Advice Quotes

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't. - Simon Cowell

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't. — Simon Cowell

Be so good they can't ignore you. — Steve Martin

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

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

Focus On Career Quotes

If you want great things to happen in your career, think big... Focus on the future. Double-down on innovation. — Cathie Wood

I love acting. I'm definitely working on all things acting. — Jake Paul

I am firmly convinced that you shouldn't necessarily emphasize hedonism, especially at the beginning of a career, but should instead focus entirely on performance. — Oliver Kahn

I'm sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that's for life, rather than being a flash in the pan. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I've always viewed my career with some suspicion, like I don't want to count on it to be the only thing I do. Partly that has to do with feeling like an imposter, like we all do sometimes, and partly I like doing other things, and being a full-time artist takes a focus I recognise I don't have. — John K. Samson

I don't pay much attention to magazine covers. One day, there'll be slack times in my career. It's unavoidable, because success is temporary. Which is why you have to stay focused on this very taxing job. — Lea Seydoux

I didn't really give a sh** what's going on in the rest of the world. I just didn't. I just wanted to focus on me, me, me, my career, my life, just me - blinders. — Madonna Ciccone

Team members have to be focused on the collective good of the team. Too often, they focus their attention on their department, their budget, their career aspirations, their egos. — Patrick Lencioni

I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world. — Stephen Baldwin

You can't focus on other people's careers. Everybody is different. — Andy Murray

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More Career Goals Quotes

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

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 didn't always know, but I always wanted to. I always wanted to be the very best receiver the Cowboys ever had. That was my goal coming in as a rookie and my goal throughout my career: being the best they ever had, going up in the Ring of Honor. — Michael Irvin

I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami. — Dan Marino

And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career. — Duane G. Carey

Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the place where revolutionary feminist thought and feminist activism are submerged or made secondary to the goals of academic careerism — Bell Hooks

It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut. — John L. Phillips

I could do exploration in this particular career field, and it was a goal that, even if I didn't reach it, it was so high it seemed almost impossible, but even if I didn't reach it, I would still have a good time and a very satisfying career. — Duane G. Carey

Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise. — Michael Jordan

I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be extremely goal oriented and to not let the noise and the nonsense interfere with your mission - what you really feel you want to do with your career and your life. — Anne Sweeney

I've reached most my goals and when my career is over I will have many other things to do. — Thomas Muster

I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant. — Kate Upton

Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way. — Denis Waitley

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this. — Michael Graves

My goal is to remain healthy my entire career, and a healthy diet seems like a good start. — Tiger Woods

I started my career as a surgeon 25 years ago. But it turned out that I am not talented as a surgeon, so I decided to change my career. But I still feel that I am a doctor. So my goal, all my life, is to bring this stem-cell technology to the bedside. — Shinya Yamanaka

It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook. — Abigail Spencer

As you experience success in applying kaizen to clear goals like weight loss or career advancement, remember to hold onto its essence: an optimistic belief in our potential for continuous improvement. — Robert D. Maurer

we compromise our career goals to make room for partners and children who may not even exist yet — Sheryl Sandberg

I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married. — Ricki Lake

Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past. — Charles J. Givens

Acting is not a science. Anybody who believes that their success exists in relation to their goals is deluding themselves; unless you think of a career in terms of financial goals. I have nothing against Tom Cruise, but he must have a large capacity to deal with the business side of movies. — Val Kilmer

It is a fatal mistake to assume that God’s goal for your life is material prosperity or popular success, as the world defines it. The abundant life has nothing to do with material abundance, and faithfulness to God does not guarantee success in a career or even ministry. Never focus on temporary crowns. — Rick Warren

My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame. — Joel McHale

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering. — Rose Byrne

When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there. — Gabriel Mann

APA is another evolution in my career; they have unique vision and share my goals for the future. I look forward to expanding our horizons together. — Paul Oakenfold

I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands. — Mariah Carey

My agent said to me five years ago, 'Hugh, I can see one day you... if I had to plan a goal for you, it's for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.' — Hugh Jackman

Now my main goal is my solo career, so I want to keep doing that. — Paul Taylor

Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession. — Frederick Sanger

Our ultimate goal is to stay in business. We are not here with a specific plan. That's kind of how our entire career has evolved. We will figure things out as we go along. — Mary-Kate Olsen

The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there's not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I'm grateful for it. — Dwayne Johnson

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