Top 100 Good Career Quotes
#1. I was kicked off a record label and didn't get picked up again. It was devastating at first because I thought, 'Oh my God. My career is over. What's gonna happen? What am I going to do?' Once I got that I could have a career, a very good career, without having a hit record, then I changed.
Thelma Houston
#2. There's never a surefire good career move except doing good work.
Seth Green
#3. Kid, I've only known you two days and I've seen you plastered three times." He shook his head. "A bar would not be a good career move for you.
Jennifer Crusie
#4. And I don't believe that I have to stay on one side of the fence or the other. I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy.
Whoopi Goldberg
#5. 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
#6. Doing something because it's quote-unquote a good career move doesn't really appeal to me.
Seth Green
#8. I've made a point of trying not to play the same part, and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy.
Aidan Gillen
#9. I've said yes to everything that Jon Stewart has asked me to do. That's been a pretty good career decision, I think.
John Oliver
#10. I think I'll Look back and go, 'That was a really good career move.'
Jayson Werth
#11. I still have the same hunger like I did 20 years ago but it's a different sort of reflection when you lose. It doesn't hurt you as much because I feel like I've had a good career.
Ken Doherty
#12. You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.
Haile Gebrselassie
#13. I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.
Ben Stiller
#14. I guess Johnny Depp has a pretty good career. I love a lot of parts that actors have played, so I love pieces of their career, but it's pretty hard to look at an actor's whole career and go, 'That was awesome!' Usually it either ends on a crappy show or with no work at all.
Keir Gilchrist
#15. Postcolonialism is the invention of rich Indian guys who wanted to make a good career in the west by playing on the guilt of white liberals
Slavoj Zizek
#17. Well no administration ever wants an independent overseer, and there are very good career people who are in charge of this investigation, but it could get hairy.
Nina Totenberg
#19. I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen.
Chord Overstreet
#20. My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career.
Andrea Jung
#21. I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very good thing. I think if I had a viable plan B, I might not have kept going.
Ben Mendelsohn
#22. Had my dad not been short and fat and balding, there's no doubt his career would have been very different. But he could do lots of stuff and made a very good career out of it. He had an incredible work ethic because he lost his father when he was very young, and the family had to pull together.
Rory Kinnear
#23. The women of today are not behind men when it comes to careers. Over 50% earn as much or more, and prefer jobs that offer good career progression,
Anonymous
#24. Death is very often referred to as a good career move.
Buddy Holly
#25. A good career is a long-lasting career. When you're there in every competition doing a good job you're a part of an elite, and that's the most important thing.
Blanka Vlasic
#26. Jenna Bush was cited for underage drinking in Austin Friday. Her dad warned her that too much partying at school could cost her a good career. At $400,000, he's making the lowest salary of any of his Yale classmates.
Argus Hamilton
#27. Maybe if I found something I was really passionate about, which is entirely possible, I would make another documentary, but it's not a good career choice for anybody. I don't recommend it.
Terry Zwigoff
#29. I think my mum wanted me to join the army or something, or become a surveyor - something with good career prospects.
Andy Serkis
#30. I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and suddenly along came the opportunity to do this beautiful film. It was so emotional to me. I loved it. I don't think it was a good career move, but I have no regrets about doing it.
Steve Martin
#31. My agents do not like my choice to work only in New York and Israel - it's not a good career move.
Mili Avital
#32. Having a more experienced and successful counselor guiding someone in a chosen profession is wise decision and good career move.
Jose A. Aviles
#33. I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.
Becky G
#34. There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands; people are editing it, they're cutting it, marketing it. And it's ... part your career sort of rides on that. But when you're actually filming it's a team thing and it really feels good there for me.
Hugh Jackman
#35. She loved him for doing things like calling her such a goof. He said it with such warmth and affection, as though her being silly meant something good, instead of how her other boyfriends had felt about it - that being goofy or silly made her a scattered flake who didn't fit into their career plans.
Charlotte Stein
#36. In films, I didn't crave the type of attention I had sort of stumbled into in my music career. And I do not audition well. I'm really not good at it. Early on, I did movies like 'Alpha Dog' and 'Black Snake Moan' because the directors didn't ask me to audition.
Justin Timberlake
#37. Everything I've done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn't had the training from Mama and Daddy to work hard, to do what I'm told, to take directions, to mind and to do a good job at anything I set out to do, then I wouldn't be where I am today.
Reba McEntire
#38. Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell.
Criss Jami
#39. I get asked sometimes 'What's the highlight of my career?' because I've been doing it for so long, and I always have a hard time coming up with something, because so many good things have happened.
George Strait
#40. How far you go in life and in your career is dependent on how far you can think good thoughts!
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#41. Yes," she thought, "nature is the refuge and home for women: they have no public career - no aim nor end beyond their domestic circle; but they can extend that, and make all the creations of nature their own, to foster and do good to.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#42. I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to.
Elaine Paige
#43. There are three stages of an actor's career. Young, old, and "You look good".
Burt Reynolds
#44. Technology makes good DJ's better, but also allows your average person to think they're a DJ, and unfortunately there's no checks and balances about people making it a career.
Neil Armstrong
#45. I think that one of the greatest perspectives that I have, from being a buyer for my whole career until I became a producer, is that I have a pretty good understanding of the buyer's mentality.
Nina Jacobson
#46. I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn - be it chiming in with constructive criticism or giving me sound advice about my career plan.
Sara Sheridan
#47. The whole goal for me with my career is just follow good projects and good parts and challenge myself as much as I can.
Noel Fisher
#48. I base the roles I choose depending on the characters. That's just how I'm gonna run my career. So if it's a good role I'm gonna take it whether it be fantasy, or whether it be realistic or fiction, anything.
Josh Hutcherson
#49. 'Party Down' was one of the most magical, special experiences of my professional career. Also special in my personal life, too. I made really good friends, and I had just a great time, and it was a great part.
Ken Marino
#50. I discovered early in my career as an entrepreneur that I'm not good at many things, and I said 'I need help.'
Alain Bouchard
#51. Women talk a good talk, but they still feel the need to wear heels, shave their legs, and bat their eyelashes for men. They cook, clean, raise children, and feel the need to look good in a bathing suit. Career women are not featured in the magazines lined along the grocery checkout.
Sheila Hageman
#52. I think we need people in Washington who really have more of a sense of a George Washington approach to it, which is to serve and go home. I think far too many of both parties see it as a career. And I don't think that's good for our country.
Scott Rigell
#53. Treat yourself like a fat person with aches and pains and a suitcase full of excuses, and good luck
you'll stay exactly where you are. Train like an athlete and, though you may not look like one now, you will become one.
Chalene Johnson
#54. I was blessed with my career. I passionately love acting. And it's given me a good livelihood.
George Takei
#55. It's a sign of this film's greatness that the enormous sadness that accompanies the final leave-taking of the circus interior is a good deal more than the conclusion of an unpretentious evening's entertainments; it's a sublime and awesome coda to the career of one of this century's greatest artists.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
#56. For years Paul Scholes has been one of the best players in the Premiership. He's incredible. He has always been under-rated throughout his career. He's a team player, a one and two-touch footballer who makes good decisions on the pitch and makes his team play.
Thierry Henry
#57. Your health is the most important commodity that you have. Without it, everything will fall apart - relationships, financial wellbeing, career, school, and so on. It is very important to take good care of yourself.
John Rogers
#58. An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing.
George Clooney
#59. I'm definitely happy with the way my career has gone, the success; but I even feel glad that I've experienced some failure in my life. That gives you perspective and humility about this business; it's good to realize that you're always just one movie away from not being in Vogue anymore.
Reese Witherspoon
#60. I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's next. I see something great, but I'm not quite there.
Fortune Feimster
#61. A man I respected very early in my career told me, 'If you wanna truly be good at this, you have to learn to hate.'
Triple H
#62. I was very lucky once I got started with a career. I happened to get some really good parts to play with some really good people to play with.
Morgan Freeman
#63. Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide.
Simon Mainwaring
#64. You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey ... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music.
Obie Trice
#65. I'm not a career filmmaker. I just like to do things that I still kind of believe in and because of that you just never know what's going to happen next. It doesn't matter if it's been a good year or a bad year: next year, there's no telling what it will be like.
Peter Mullan
#66. I'm only at the beginning of my career, but I feel successful in that I haven't sold out in any way, shape or form. I feel good about the choices I've made, and I don't feel like I've let go of any of my values.
Zoe Kravitz
#67. Nothing I do is by design. It's always the result of a happy accident. I didn't have a career plan. It has just become the way it is. It's all good fun.
Lena Headey
#68. The quality of your ideas 'your actual thoughts' determines your success more than you think.
Auliq Ice
#69. These people are headstrong and if they feel the curb loosed but one link they will with bit in the teeth in one month run further out of the career of good order than they will be brought back in three months.
Humphrey Gilbert
#70. Your personal life is something that's gonna last forever, and your career in stage, film, television, whatever, is not necessarily going to do that, so to keep the two separate's a very good thing.
Lucy Griffiths
#71. I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.
Viggo Mortensen
#72. Music reality shows are a good thing, especially for those seeking a career in music.
Kailash Kher
#73. 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
#74. I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.
Matthew Fox
#75. The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.
Robin Roberts
#76. I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
Victoria Clark
#77. If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.
Wendi McLendon-Covey
#78. I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.
Cate Blanchett
#79. I must confess that over my career, I've actually downplayed the importance of DJs. It's such a different art form. Then all of a sudden you try it, and you think, 'Good God, these guys do work.' I used to be very cynical and very blase about it. I can only apologize.
Peter Hook
#80. 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
#81. You are all so good and I wish I were better. Now get out of here because I want to be where you are.
Amy Poehler
#82. Well, dissent is the tradition in America, and I've been on the side of dissent a good bit of my career, particularly in the last many years of the Republican Congress.
Lloyd Doggett
#83. I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.
Ian Anthony Dale
#84. Riffing on language will create wonderful effects you never intended. Which leads me to this writing advice: 'Always take credit for good stuff you didn't intend, because you'll be getting plenty of criticism in your career for bad stuff you didn't mean either.'
Roy Peter Clark
#85. In my career, there's many things I've won and many things I've achieved, but for me, my greatest achievement is my children and my family. It's about being a good father, a good husband, just being connected to family as much as possible.
David Beckham
#86. My acting career wasn't going where I wanted it to. I wasn't getting good parts. I got so bored with myself that I started writing.
Susan Strasberg
#87. All the good things in my career are a direct descendant of what I did and learned at # camp
Seth Godin
#88. My belief is the majority of people in politics are just interested in pursuing this career in politics, and doing what's necessary to get themselves re-elected. And if that happens to coincide with the public good, great. But if it doesn't, the public good loses out.
Dick Murphy
#89. I enjoy my life. I think I have a very good life. And I think I'm very satisfied with the direction of my career and just my lifestyle and everything like that. So I wouldn't change a single thing.
Macaulay Culkin
#90. A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.
Sidney Poitier
#91. When I look back over my career, having an opportunity to compete against really good players like Lester Hayes are some of the highlights.
Steve Largent
#92. I tell all the young guys, don't make choices because somebody else is telling you it's good from a career-maintenance perspective.
Brad Pitt
#93. My family's great and everybody's happy and healthy and my career is good. But personally, I had to sacrifice a lot in my own personal life. And I regret that.
Darren Shahlavi
#94. I am personally interested in more than just business schools. However, life has been good to me, and it's been good to me through a business career. I think the chance to help strengthen the foundation of young people going into business, as I did, just appeals to me.
Gerry Schwartz
#95. I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'
Daniel Radcliffe
#96. You have your bad moments in your career and your good moments. And it's been a good ride so far, but it's not over yet.
Maria Sharapova
#97. With acting, if I'm any good at it, my modeling career would never be a hindrance but would rather be a help. And if I'm not, then it doesn't really matter.
Lily Cole
#98. What's amazing about Sarah [Brightman] is that she's sustained such a career. She just keeps going - she's like a machine. She tours and records and loves what she does. I think she's a really good example to anybody in the industry that there is life beyond the shows.
Kerry Ellis
#99. He guessed as well as he could, and crawled along for a good way, till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel. It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#100. I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.
Michel Patini
