Career Inspiration Quotes

#1. Don't go through life with a closed mind. Allow innovations and creativity to flow. We should always challenge ourselves to excel in more ways than one. Be open to ideas or suggestions on how to improve. And, the chances of reaching your goals will increase enormously.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#2. You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.

Joss Whedon

#3. The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.

Justin Timberlake

#4. Young people are looking for meaning and happiness to accompany their first paycheque. Inspire Your Career provides career advice designed to help you find more than just material success. Through its empowering and practical lessons, readers will find inspiration as they embark on their careers.

Marc Kielburger

#5. If the first job one has in a given profession acts as a tuning fork for the career that follows, Frederick Thomas was attuned from the start to a pitch of the highest quality.

Vladimir Alexandrov

#6. When he thought about how he wanted to build his career coming out of college, Hahn took inspiration from Theodore Roosevelt's famous dictum, "Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."5

Reid Hoffman

#7. Here's hoping this book will give wishful actors everywhere the inspiration and encouragement they need follow their dream. They need to know what the life of a working actor looks like and that it is possible to have a successful acting career and a full life without becoming a celebrity or star.

Debbie Zipp

#8. Miles Davis was a part of my life from 1947 on. I was born in 1941 and I first heard him in 1947 on a 78 rpm. And then I followed his career, starting with his first solo album in 1951. He was an icon and inspiration and a mentor to me.

Chick Corea

#9. God has been my number one inspiration. I also look up to Will Smith and Jamie Fox who are also personal friends of mine. They give me great career advice. I would also include Chris Stokes, as a filmmaker and music producer. I've been working with him since I was eight.

Marques Houston

#10. Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world
to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

Ayn Rand

#11. The Middle East, that seductive region where [Herman] Melville had hoped to rekindle his inspiration and revive his diminishing career, had proved an egregious disappointment. "The whole thing is half melancholy, half farcical," he groaned, "like all the rest of the world.

Michael B. Oren

#12. I don't have a career, I have a life. Don't think of a career, think about your passion and look for inspiration.

Philippe Petit

#13. Organizing one's life to respond to a threat one felt powerless about as a child can be a source of enormous inspiration.

Linda Austin

#14. There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.

Kara DioGuardi

#15. No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.

Rob Liano

#16. My participation in the Art of the Olympians is a natural extension of my athletic career. I find creating a piece of art in many respects mirrors my long jumping efforts illustrating that hard work and inspiration will always be the foundation for success.

Bob Beamon

#17. It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.

Alain De Botton

#18. In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'

Gaston Lachaise

#19. The satisfaction I feel from finishing another story is tantamount to, say, crossing the finish line for the career marathoner.

Susan Wingate

#20. Can't decide which life or career path is right for you? Maybe you don't have to! In The Renaissance Soul, Margaret Lobenstine offers inspiration, advice, and practical tips for people with more than one burning passion.

Laurence Boldt

#21. No one should ever despair because the entrance to his or her chosen career path is clogged. There is an ancient saying: The persistent drip wears through stone.

Kentetsu Takamori

#22. How far you go in life and in your career is dependent on how far you can think good thoughts!

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#23. Nothing you are choosing to do for yourself is worth the tears and feelings of dread every single morning. NOTHING.

Mary Mihalic

#24. Sir Derek Jacobi has been an inspiration to so many actors and audiences throughout his brilliant career. To see him in Shakespeare is an event in itself.

Kenneth Branagh

#25. New York is a glorious place for clearing your head and finding inspiration. Every time you step outside, you live a dozen lives.

Lindsey Kelk

#26. The Olympics is about bringing the world together and learning how to go through struggles. That's what inspired me before my career and that's been my inspiration ever since I was striving towards the 2008 Games.

David Boudia

#27. When times get tough and your path gets rough, just hold on. You'll get there soon enough.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#28. For a million dollars, the Russians would take two people, a million apiece, around the moon and back. However, stories, videos that come from the space station, and other people, are a great inspiration to young people for an exciting career field.

Buzz Aldrin

#29. I can only speak for myself, but public school did nothing for me musically. I got the impression a musical career was frowned upon. But in the arts, resistance can often be the strongest inspiration.

Charlie Fink

#30. Any writer takes inspiration from what they read and watch, and over their career works on forming their own voice. I think it was probably Stephen King who made me want to become a writer.

Tim Lebbon

#31. Everyday do one thing to move you in the direction of your dreams.

Carolyn Edwards

#32. even career jobs come and go. Money comes and goes. Opportunities and disappointments come and go. But relationships last forever. And hers with her husband was paramount

Cindi McMenamin

#33. We all have dreams; things we want to achieve, to have or to own, to be or to see.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#34. I was lucky to marry Paul. He was a great inspiration, his enthusiasm about wine and food helped to shape my tastes, and his encouragement saw me through discouraging moments. I never would have had my career without Paul Child.

Julia Child

#35. Other things being equal, it is the person who can lift his work up to the plane of the intuitional and inspiration who achieves greatness, both in his work and in his career.

Stanwood Cobb

#36. If I never got to make a living doing what I loved, I'd still do it
for fun and for free.

Susan E. Isaacs