Beyond the Dead-End: Quotes to Spark Your Career Revival
Beyond the Dead-End: Quotes to Spark Your Career Revival
1. “There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in a different direction.” – Oprah Winfrey
2. “Delete the negative; accentuate the positive.” – Donna Karan
3. “Dreams are lovely, but they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change.” – Shonda Rhimes
4. “Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.” – Michelle Obama
5. “When you really want something, you will find a way. When you don’t really want something, you’ll find an excuse.” – Rachel Hollis
6. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey
7. “Stay in your own lane. Comparison kills creativity and joy.” – Brene Brown
8. “Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can’t handle.” – Sanya Richards-Ross
9. “The cynics will be the loudest voices, but I promise you, they will accomplish the least.” – Barack Obama
10. “Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.” – Vince Lombardi
11. “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein
12. “It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” – Bill Gates
13. “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” – David McCullough Jr.
14. “Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe you can achieve.”— Mary Kay Ash
15. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.”— Sir Richard Branson
16. “The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”— Chinese Proverb
17. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.”— Chris Grosser
18. “Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”— Francis of Assisi
19. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”— Elbert Hubbard
20. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
21. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.”— Amelia Earhart
22. “Behold the turtle: He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.” – James Bryant Conant
23. “Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.” – J. Willard Marriott
24. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
25. “There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.” – Napoleon Hill
26. “The future depends on what you do today.” – Mahatma Gandhi
27. “What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?” – Dr. Robert Schuller
28. “A person going nowhere can be sure of reaching his destination. Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase – just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
29. “We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.” – Bertha Calloway
30. “Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.“ – Marianne Williamson
31. ”Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.” – Sheryl Sandberg
32. “If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do.” – Anonymous
33. “Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.” – G.K. Nielson
34. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
35. “There are no limits to what can be accomplished when nobody cares who gets the credit.” – John Wooden
36. “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” – Robin Williams
37. “The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles.” – Unknown
