Choosing a career isn’t like finding a soulmate. It’s possible that your ideal job hasn’t even been invented yet. — Adam Grant
Just about any occupation can be a job, career, or calling. — Angela Duckworth
Empowered women who reach tough or unconventional positions make CHOICES not sacrifices — Kiran Bedi
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work. — Denis Waitley
You can go from job to career to calling – all without changing your occupation. — Angela Duckworth
You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life. — Jim Rohn
Your career is what you're paid for. Your calling is what you're made for. — Steve Harvey
Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves. — Alain de Botton
I’m a firm believer that you don’t have to pick one career path. — Hannah Bronfman
There comes a time in every person's life when he has to choose the course his life will take. — Muhammad Ali
Commit to a career built on sacrifice, not compromise. — DeVon Franklin
I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising. — Liev Schreiber
A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night. — Marilyn Monroe
As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions. — Lavrenti Lopes
Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth. — Paul Clitheroe
Short Careers Choices Quotes
The path you take is up to you. Make good choices, dream BIG, it is never too late. — Chris Herren
Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you. — Gayle Forman
Don't confuse having a career with having a life. — Hillary Clinton
Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you. — John C. Maxwell
In life everyone has a choice. The key is: make a right choice. — DJ Khaled
Life is choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work. — Indian Proverbs
Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines. — Gary Sinise
Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost.
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
It's a secret, but when I decided to apply to 'Shonen Magazine,' it was already past the deadline, so I had no choice but to go with 'Shonen Jump.' — Akira Toriyama
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it. — Katharine Whitehorn
How to Pick a Career Quotes: Chasing happiness is an amateur move. Feeling contentment in those times when your choices and your circumstances have combined to pull it off, and knowing you have all that you could ever ask for, is for the wise. — Tim Urban
It's so easy for anyone to be like, 'Logan Paul just ended his career. He's done.' But the only person who will ever decide whether that's true is me. Like, if I sleep for the rest of my life, maybe. — Logan Paul
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
After graduating from high school, I worked at an advertising agency as a designer. — Akira Toriyama
If you don't want to live a life where you go to a job every day just so you can enjoy your weekends and get two weeks of vacation every year, then don't do it. — Lewis Howes
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
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln
No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown. — Alexandra Lara
If you want great things to happen in your career, think big... Focus on the future. Double-down on innovation. — Cathie Wood
Patience is when you're supposed to be mad but you choose to understand.
This Internet stuff is definitely not my future. — Logan Paul
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. — Steve Jobs
They see a work ethic in both of us. But, they also see that my husband is more in control of his future, and I am more reliant on other sources for my career. — Jami Gertz
One of the most important decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.
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
The truth is my idea has been to always stay at Barcelona and see out the rest of my career here. Like I always say, one doesn't know what can happen in the future, but if it were up to me to decide, I would stay at Barcelona for the rest of my career. — Lionel Messi
There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I've never had any talent for that. I just do things and hope for the best. Say yes, take a chance, and sometimes it's terrific and sometimes it's not. — Christopher Walken
Make a total commitment to your company, your job, and your career. Uncommitted people have no future. — Brian Tracy
Careers And Life Quotes
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
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
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals. — Brian Tracy
I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL. — Jocko Willink
People close to me called me 'Curry in a Hurry.' I was moving through life at 100 miles an hour trying to further my career and be a great mom and make everyone happy. — Ann Curry
Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want a different result, make a different choice.
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. — Paul J. Meyer
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
If men don’t kill themselves, they’re exiting education, society and family life at the highest rates ever, women are frantically pursuing careers only to discover that they’re unable to find a partner they’re attracted to and then jump on meds at 40 years old. — Chris Williamson
Career Advice Quotes
My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't. — Simon Cowell
I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do — Summer Sanders
Don't feel sorry for yourself if you have chosen the wrong road. Turn around.
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
No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you always have the choice to turn around.
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
If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. — Johnny Carson
I'd like to believe that achieving a leadership position is all about competency, capability and ambition, so I try not to distinguish between the sexes when it comes to giving career advice. — Heather Bresch
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
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
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
Since I liked to draw, I entered a design-oriented high school. — Akira Toriyama
Life Choices Quotes
Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you. — Ralph Marston
We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything. — Charles R. Swindoll
Dreams are like stars. You may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny. — Liam James
This wordly life is like a shadow. If you try to catch it, you will never be able to do so. If you turn your back towards it, it has no choice but to follow you. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference. — Harry S. Truman
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice. — Zig Ziglar
Please remember, that even in your darkest moments, you still have the choice to focus your energy on the positive and create a better life. — Andy Biersack
All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love. — Johnny Cash
New Career Quotes
When I bought 'The New York Observer,' my experience in journalism was limited to a single article I had written for a college magazine. — Jared Kushner
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. — Abdul Kalam
As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career. — Hermann Maier
So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before. — Trevor Nunn
American Horror Story re-energized me; it re-energized my career. There’s no shame in recognizing that. It’s exposed me to a whole new generation, which is a little strange. I’m not used to young people thinking I’m cool. — Jessica Lange
All through my career I've done what I can to discover new talent and give them a start. — Steven Spielberg
If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is rarely a great financial or material risk, it’s a social risk. At the moment they started their new businesses, everyone around them said ‘you’re an idiot’. — Malcolm Gladwell
Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career. — Barack Obama
Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career. — Mark Messier
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
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
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
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
The way I look at - speaking as a woman - I understand what it means to be a daughter, and to be a wife, and to be a mother, and also to be a career woman. The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset. — Margaret Chan
Choices And Decisions Quotes
If I had to choose between dribbling past 5 players and scoring from 40 yards at Anfield or shagging miss world, it'd be a hard choice. Thankfully, i've done both — George Best
Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period. — Wayne Dyer
Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline. — James C. Collins
We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience. — Bill W.
When I don't make a decision, it's not that I don't think about it. I think about it and make a decision not to make a decision. — P. V. Narasimha Rao
When we repeat 1 percent errors, day after day, by replicating poor decisions, duplicating tiny mistakes, and rationalizing little excuses, our small choices compound into toxic results. — James Clear
The best thing you can do is follow your dreams — The Rev
One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives. — Mike DeWine
Each day you're presented with a choice. You can either keep your greatness hidden under a pile of fears, regrets, and excuses, or you can let it out. So the best way to begin unlocking inner greatness is to make a conscious choice to live out the rest of today, with the best you. — Lewis Howes
Too much choice has many underappreciated downsides that affect our health and happiness. Every choice you make requires cognitive effort, takes time and can potentially add to your stress load. Eliminating unnecessary choice from your life can be transformative. — Rangan Chatterjee
Different Choices Quotes
F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours. — Zig Ziglar
My message to women: Do what makes you feel good, because there'll always be someone who thinks you should do it differently. Whether your choices are hits or misses, at least they're your own. — Michelle Obama
The servant-leader is servant first... It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first. — Robert K. Greenleaf
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different. — Michael Porter
Above all we must realize that each of us makes a difference with our life. Each of us impacts the world around us every single day. We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place - or not to bother — Jane Goodall
'It only put me in Gryffindor,' said Harry in a defeated voice, 'because I asked not to go in Slytherin...' 'Exactly' said Dumbledore, beaming once more. 'Which makes you very different from Tom Riddle. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.' — J. K. Rowling
In other words, it’s precisely the fact that I could have chosen a different, and perhaps equally valuable way to spend this afternoon that bestowed meaning on the choice I did make. And the same applies, of course, to an entire lifetime. — Oliver Burkeman
There comes a time in the spiritual journey when you start making choices from a very different place. And if a choice lines up so that it supports truth, health, happiness, wisdom and love, it's the right choice. — Angeles Arrien
The way you react has been repeated thousands of times, and it has become a routine for you. You are conditioned to be a certain way. And that is the challenge: to change your normal reactions, to change your routine, to take a risk and make different choices. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Let's stop 'tolerating' or 'accepting' difference, as if we're so much better for not being different in the first place. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different. — Kate Bornstein
I swear to God, if my kids, when they're 18, if they come to me and say, 'Dad, I love pumping gas. I love getting up in the morning, I love grabbing the handle, I love the smell of the gas station,' I'd say, 'Go for it,' because if you love it that much at 18, he's probably going to end up owning 25 gas stations by the time he's 30. — Dana White
I felt that working at an office from the early morning was impossible for me. Anyway, I wanted to be free from that lifestyle as soon as possible. I wanted to take it easy. — Akira Toriyama
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
The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice. — Harry Browne
You need to ask yourself, ‘Where do you want to work: startups, mid-size or large companies?’ If you find yourself debating the ‘startup versus large company’ choice you’ve already chosen the big company. Entrepreneurship isn’t a career choice it’s a passion and obsession. — Steve Blank
All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life. — Brandon Lee
Faith is a choice like any other. If you're picking a career or a husband - or deciding whether to have a baby - there are feelings and reasons pro and con out the wazoo. But thinking it through is - at the final hour - horse dookey. You can only try out. — Mary Karr
The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week. — Robert Frost
I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes. — Suzanne Farrell
I think I'm a very pretty girl. I'm never going to pretend to think otherwise. There are even days I feel I'm fabulously hot and sexy. I'm grateful for my looks. My family is doing well because of them. I can make career choices and turn down movies because of them and I have been making money from them for 17 years. My looks are who I am. — Milla Jovovich
Well, my career choice made a difference because I never would have met my wife, Jenny. I met her through comedian Buddy Hackett. He set us up on a blind date and then we got married. — Bob Newhart
In business, your positive thoughts and lifestyle choices lead to your personal success and your career success. — Jeffrey Gitomer
I try to be eclectic in my choice of films. If I've done anything that's intentional in my career, it's to try to do as many different types of characters and as many different types of genres of movies that I can. — Dennis Quaid
If you have a choice of selling shoes to ladies or giving birth to a flaming porcupine... look into that second, less painful career. — Richard Jeni
I would be devastated if my son could not have music as part of his curriculum in school. It should not be a choice between culture and technical training - well-rounded students and graduates will make appropriate choices for their careers, but they must also be trained to make appropriate social choices. — David Cassidy
The argument goes that the pay gap only exists because of women's 'choices' of work type, hours, and child related career breaks, effectively making it a myth. But research shows that while those are factors, they don't account for the whole gap, suggesting that discrimination certainly plays a role as well. — Laura Bates
Many kids turn to selling drugs. It's not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money. — Richard Harris
Whether it's choosing a career or deciding what charity to get involved with, the choice should come from your heart. Ultimately you are the one who has to get up every morning and enjoy what you are doing, so make sure it matters to you. — Dave Thomas
I've had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice. — Chuck Daly
Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don’t need to worry about me; I have a college education. I’m not destitute. I'm living like this by choice. — Jon Krakauer
It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation. — Camille Anna Paglia
Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that. — Famke Janssen
Advertising. I'd definitely like to try that. In fact, it was a genuine second choice career-wise. I'd be good at selling stuff - I've got the gift of the gab. — Tony Blackburn
I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh. — Lee Kuan Yew
Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight. — Charles Rangel
It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period. — Christine Lahti
So each time you do a shift in your life, right, or you do a change in your life, then sometimes it feels like it's not gonna happen. And your career is not gonna do well. And the next thing you know is that these choices that you make actually catapult you to the next level. — Goldie Hawn
If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice. — Nikka Costa
I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business. — Robert Fripp
I saw Lotus F1 racing as the best choice for me to progress my career, after considering several other options that were available to me. — Heikki Kovalainen
Life is about making tough choices. Sometimes you have to go where your career is going. — Bill Maher
I think now is our time. My mother was told by everyone that she had two choices: She could be a nurse or a teacher. The external barriers now are just so much lower. If we start acknowledging what the real issues are, we can solve them. It's not that hard. — Sheryl Sandberg
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