Longevity conquers scandal every time. — Shelby Foote
Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years. — Marshall Goldsmith
Play long-term games with long-term people. All returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest. — Naval Ravikant
Play long-term games with long-term people. — Naval Ravikant
People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries. — Mike Rowe
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. — Livy
The best founders are long-term thinkers. — Naval Ravikant
A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night. — Marilyn Monroe
What habits would you start today that you'd still want to be doing 25 years from now? — Dan Sullivan
It takes twenty years to become an overnight success. — Eddie Cantor
Persistence and discipline are key traits for long-term success in any field. — Jim Simons
Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50. — Napoleon Hill
We know we must nurture them until they have some history. But even if it takes ten or 15 years for them to become stars, that has been an amazing investment, right? — Bernard Arnault
The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week. — Robert Frost
Short Long Careers Quotes
It takes a long time to become young. — Pablo Picasso
The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation. — Seth Klarman
Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines. — Gary Sinise
Sometimes it takes years for a person to become an overnight success. — Prince
Life is long if you know how to use it. — Seneca
Commit to a career built on sacrifice, not compromise. — DeVon Franklin
The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs. — Stanley Druckenmiller
Build for the long term and the short term will take care of itself. — Rand Fishkin
If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions. — Hans Selye
You have to work long, smart, and hard to become successful. — Tom Bilyeu
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Long Careers Quotes
I feel 100% a Yamaha rider in my heart. I had a long career and raced with several factory bikes, but the highlight of my career is undoubtedly with Yamaha. — Valentino Rossi
I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world. — Leonid Afremov
The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems. — Peter Agre
Long term consistency trumps short term intensity.
When one door closes another opens but all too often there is a long hallway in between. — Rick Jarow
It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense. — Rupert Grint
The thing that I think is the most important is taking moments to express your appreciation to your partner. A thank you or a quick kiss can go a long way toward affirming your relationship and commitment to each other. That's not hard to do even when you're juggling insane careers and three kids. — Michael Ian Black
No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you always have the choice to turn around.
A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard. — Cal Ripken, Jr.
During the rest of my screen career, I am going to continue doing vampires as long as people sin. For I believe that humanity needs the moral lesson and it needs it in repeatedly larger doses. — Theda Bara
You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public. — Celia Cruz
Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run. — Adam Savage
Career And Love 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
One of the things my career as an artist might say to young artists is: The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best. And unless you photograph what you love, you are not going to make good art. — Sally Mann
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 will go anywhere as long is it is forward.
The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. — C. S. Lewis
I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy. — Gene Wilder
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. — Steve Jobs
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Do what you love and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career. — Meg Whitman
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'm in shock. Whitney was such an amazing artist. When I started my English career, I wanted to be like her. I loved her so much. My prayers go out to her daughter and to all of her family. — Celine Dion
Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run. — Phyllis Diller
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
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
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
The journey is long, but the goal is in each step.
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
Once our minds are tattooed with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.
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
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
After I hurt the knee, football wasn't nearly as much fun. I was limited. But you make do with what you have. I adjusted some. I was lucky to play as long as I did, with the different kinds of injuries I got. I played with two severed hamstring muscles in my leg late in my career. I could barely run, other than to drop back to pass. — Joe Namath
Strange to wake-up this morning as a former ODI cricketer, but it's been a great honour and privilege playing for Sri Lanka during the past 15 years. At the end of the day, I am very fortunate to have enjoyed a long career playing with and against some great players. Thanks for all the encouragement and support over the years. — Kumar Sangakkara
As Ive progressed in my career, Ive come to appreciate -- and really value -- the other attributes that define a companys success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making. — Ursula Burns
So many good things have happened to me in the game of baseball. When I do allow myself a chance to think about it, it's almost like a storybook career. You feel so blessed to have been able to compete this long. — Cal Ripken, Jr.
I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not to go away. — Chris Cornell
I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. — Tom Glavine
When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way. — Michael Lewis
With two children of my own, I know what it means to balance the demands of family and career - and let's not even talk about finding a date for myself. Rabbi Shmuley keeps telling me he'll find me the perfect woman. My response is, 'As long as she's not a journalist'. — Michael Jackson
Few people get to earn a living at what they like to do and there are hazards in any profession. Football is something I was made for. I gave the game all I could for as long as I could. I guess my only regret was that my career was too short. — Dick Butkus
The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years. — David Ogilvy
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 have been blessed with a long and healthy career as a professional athlete and as I move forward into the next stage of my life, chiropractic care will continue to be an important part of my game. — Jerry Rice
The one guiding principle over my 23-year career in TV has been as long as I'm having fun, I really don't care what the job title is. — Andy Cohen
I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman. — Camille Claudel
At the very worst, if I have a short-lived career, at least I could say I sparked a change - that I inspired some leniency in what people accept in hip-hop. And if I have a very long career and can be gyrating in a leotard at 35, that would be great. — Iggy Azalea
The success I had as a player, or the career I had as a player, is often based on the guys you play beside, the guys you play with. Playing on the offensive line, you're only as good as your weakest guy up front. I was blessed to play with a lot of guys for a long time. — Russ Grimm
Perhaps being a parent has changed career more in that you ask yourself how long you'll be away from home. My eldest child is approaching school age so that becomes more important. They're less portable. — Cate Blanchett
Endless data show that diverse teams make better decisions. We are building products that people with very diverse backgrounds use, and I think we all want our company makeup to reflect the makeup of the people who use our products. That's not true of any industry really, and we have a long way to go. — Sheryl Sandberg
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
It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it's one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It's so frustrating at the time, but what's so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, 'I've got to get better.' — Jason Dohring
It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes. — Jim Carrey
Being fat worked, and I think that was what was confusing for me for a long time in my career. — Ricki Lake
My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't. — Beverly Sills
I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust. — Edward Dmytryk
Looking at the players that are truly successful, you see the durability and long careers. Those are the players I respect and look up to. I hope to become a player like that. — Daisuke Matsuzaka
It took me a long time to get to where I'm at, in my career and as a man. I was going through my trials and tribulations in life, and it gave me the strength to tackle things that have come my way. — Bernie Mac
As long as you are in the relative worlds, you should be realistic and know there is winning and losing here. — Frederick Lenz
Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles. . . . It won't be too long before bright young men and women set their eyes on careers in Earth orbit and say: "I want to work 200 kilometers from home-straight up!" — Arthur C. Clarke
Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the stories are true, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always gripping. I could hardly put the book down. . . .The writing is superb. — Elmer Kelton
Any article's good. Long as it's publicity, I think that's all that matters. I think it's advancement for my career. — Brian Wilson
My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love. — Sadaharu Oh
Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege. — Mark Rydell
I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time. — Josh Schwartz
I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career. — Nancy Kerrigan
Dirk Gently has been a long passion (my career started with Douglas Adams and my stage adaptation of Dirk Gently) . — Arvind Ethan David
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