115 Jobs Quotes

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Famous Jobs Quotes

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Leadership is no longer about your position. It's now more about your passion for excellence and making a difference You can lead without a title — Robin Sharma

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. — Bill Gates

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. — Harry S Truman

A black...gets a job with a white-owned company. He is the only black at the firm. He works hard, but he's fighting a losing battle against his genes. — David Duke

The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job. — Paula Scher

It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people — Woody Guthrie

Our job as Americans and as Republicans is to dislodge the traitors from every place where they've been sent to do their traitorous work. — Joseph McCarthy

Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them. — Huey Newton

Short Jobs Quotes

  • Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. — Henry Ford
  • Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine. — Marco Pierre White
  • True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition. — Frederick Herzberg
  • Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs. — Nancy Pelosi
  • You get the job done or you don't. — Bill Belichick
  • Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. — Steve Jobs
  • Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. — Steve Jobs
  • ‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. — Thomas Merton
  • In nature, everything has a job. The job of the fog is to beautify further the existing beauties! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
  • They say hard work pays off Well tell the Based God don't quit his day job — Capital STEEZ
Jobs quote In every job that must be done there is an element of fun.
In every job that must be done there is an element of fun.

Looking For A New Job Quotes

Everyone gets laid off and everyone in Hollywood gets unemployment for six months while they're looking for a new job. So I would just do stand-up for six months and think I was really making it, and when my unemployment ran out, I had to get another job immediately. — Anthony Jeselnik

Researchers at Harvard say that taking a power nap for an hour in the afternoon can totally refresh you. They say that by the time you wake up you'll feel so good, you'll be able to start looking for a new job. — Jay Leno

It is an awful thing to say, but if I was a Rover worker I would not be pinning my hopes on a deal by next Monday, I'd be looking for a new job. — Jeff Randall

Jobs quote Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

It's amazing to me in retrospect that I wrote as much as I did with full-time jobs. Each city gave me a new distance from - and a new way of looking at - India. I'm grateful for the movement. I feel as if I've crammed several lives into one. — Karan Mahajan

People are out there looking for jobs and realizing that they have to look within to do and create what the new and next thing will be. They can't rely anymore on what was usually given to them. — Joshua Michael Stern

If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now? — Dannel Malloy

Jobs quote Jobs fill your pocket, adventures fill your soul.
Jobs fill your pocket, adventures fill your soul.

Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch just announced that he is stepping down after three years. When asked if he's looking for a new job, he was like, 'Nah, just browsing.' — Jimmy Fallon

If you are looking for a lover, a job, a new house, or a serial killer, Snoop is for you. It’s great science and a fun read by a world-renowned personality researcher. — James W. Pennebaker

All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since. — Patina Miller

The time to look for a new job is when you don't need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable. — Seth Godin

Inspirational Quotes

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly - Paulo Coelho

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho

Jobs quote No matter how good you are, you can always be replaced.
No matter how good you are, you can always be replaced.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. — Helen Keller

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams

Jobs quote Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

If God is for us, who can be against us? — Paul the Apostle

The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle

Motivational Quotes

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. — C. S. Lewis

If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker

I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods. — Rick Ross

Jobs quote Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

No Fear, No Hesitation, No Surprise, No Doubt — Miyamoto Musashi

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. - Jim Ryun

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. — Jim Ryun

In time, all things work to your advantage when you pursue them with an open heart. — Miyamoto Musashi

Jobs quote Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.
Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. — Ayn Rand

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. — Aristotle

Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself. — Usain Bolt

Find A Job Quotes

Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business. Why not find a better job. — Hafez

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job. - Zig Ziglar

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job. — Zig Ziglar

Choosing a career isn’t like finding a soulmate. It’s possible that your ideal job hasn’t even been invented yet. — Adam Grant

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

Everything speeds up and it's blurry for a minute. But you've got to have a little patience sometimes to just find a soft spot. There's always a soft spot in the defense, and it's your job to find it. — LaDainian Tomlinson

That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting. — Peter Drucker

A true Cleaner never tells you what he’s doing or what he’s planning. You find out after the job is complete. — Tim Grover

Jobs quote No matter what you do, your job is to tell your story.
No matter what you do, your job is to tell your story.

Central and western Pennsylvania has one of the best workforces in the country and this will provide job training, new skills and additional resources for those trying to find a job. — Bill Shuster

A miracle is a single mom who works two jobs to care for her kids and still helps them with their homework at night. A miracle is a child donating all the money in their piggy bank to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. That's where you'll find the hand and face of God. — Cathie Linz

I want people to take the initiative to find veterans that need help, veterans that are suffering and in need of assistance reintegrating from combat back into society, into normal family lives and jobs. We need to take a real boots on the ground approach to helping veterans in need. — Max Martini

Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. — Walter Chrysler

Looking For Work Quotes

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. — Antoni Gaudi

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can. — David Brainerd

Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval. — Susan B. Anthony

The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful. - Peter Brook

The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful. — Peter Brook

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. — Pablo Picasso

There is no substitute for hard work. If you're looking for the easy way, if you're looking for the trick, you might get by for a while, but you will not be developing the talents that lie within you. There is simply no substitute for work. — John Wooden

Jobs quote I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job, because he will find an easy way to do it.
I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job, because he will find an easy way to do it.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. — Edward L. Bernays

You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I'd been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I'd be still waiting. — Condoleezza Rice

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job. — William Sanderson

There are no shortcuts. If you feel good, you'll look good, you'll play good. Work hard every day. No matter what your strengths and weaknesses, there's no substitute for hard work. — Hope Solo

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One Way: Jesus! One Job: Evangelism! - T.L. Osborn quote

One Way: Jesus! One Job: Evangelism! — T.L. Osborn

Jobs quote If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. - Fred Astaire quote

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire

If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job. - Tom Landry quote

If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job. — Tom Landry

It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish. - J. R. R. Tolkien quote

It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish. — J. R. R. Tolkien

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. - Albert Camus quote

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. — Albert Camus

Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women. - Phyllis Schlafly quote

Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women. — Phyllis Schlafly

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. - Jim Rohn quote

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. — Jim Rohn

My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor. - Victoria Pratt quote

My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor. — Victoria Pratt

I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them. - Princess of Wales Diana quote

I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them. — Princess of Wales Diana

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain. - Helmut Newton quote

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain. — Helmut Newton

Quit your job. Buy a ticket. Get a tan. Fall in love. Never return. - Spencer Antle quote

Quit your job. Buy a ticket. Get a tan. Fall in love. Never return. — Spencer Antle

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. - Aristotle quote

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle

It's not your job to like me - it's mine - Byron Katie quote

It's not your job to like me - it's mine — Byron Katie

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing. - Quentin Crisp quote

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing. — Quentin Crisp

I'll hire blacks as long as they can do the cotton-pickin' job. - Evan Mecham quote

I'll hire blacks as long as they can do the cotton-pickin' job. — Evan Mecham

God has spoken to me many times that my job is to love and his job is to heal. - Heidi Baker quote

God has spoken to me many times that my job is to love and his job is to heal. — Heidi Baker

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area. - Jodie Foster quote

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area. — Jodie Foster

Love your Job, but never fall in love with your Company. - N. R. Narayana Murthy quote

Love your Job, but never fall in love with your Company. — N. R. Narayana Murthy

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. - Steve Jobs quote

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. — Steve Jobs

Your real job in this world is to be you. - India.Arie quote

Your real job in this world is to be you. — India.Arie

Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran. - Shirin Ebadi quote

Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran. — Shirin Ebadi

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open. - Gunter Grass quote

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open. — Gunter Grass

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work - Steve Jobs quote

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work — Steve Jobs

If you're not serving the customer, your job is to be serving someone who is. - Jan Carlzon quote

If you're not serving the customer, your job is to be serving someone who is. — Jan Carlzon

We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. - Steve Jobs quote

We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. — Steve Jobs

Get on yo job little man this ain't Saturday - J. Cole quote

Get on yo job little man this ain't Saturday — J. Cole

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand - Vince Lombardi quote

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand — Vince Lombardi

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. - Confucius quote

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. — Confucius

When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs. - Margaret Laurence quote

When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs. — Margaret Laurence

Do the job first. Worry about the clearance later. - Sargent Shriver quote

Do the job first. Worry about the clearance later. — Sargent Shriver

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. - Simone de Beauvoir quote

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. — Simone de Beauvoir

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. - William Bennett quote

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. — William Bennett

Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is all about people-motivating people to get the job done. You have to be people-centered. — Colin Powell

To those of you with your years of service still ahead, the challenge is yours. Stop doubting yourselves. Have the courage to make up your minds and hold your decisions. Refuse to be BOUGHT for a nickel, or a million dollars, or a job! — Mary Mcleod Bethune

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