Getting ahead in your career can be a rollercoaster of a ride. Some days you feel on top of the world, like the sky’s the limit. Other days you feel like you’ve hit a dead end and you’re under appreciated.
To keep you on track here are my top 27 career quotes to inspire you to reach your goals:
1) Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful
— Albert Schweitzer
2) The best revenge is massive success
—Frank Sinatra
3) You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take
— Wayne Gretzky
4) The future depends on what you do today
— Mahatma Gandhi
5) The best way to predict the future is to create it
— Peter Drucker
6) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
— Henry David Thoreau
7) Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for doing it
—Katharine Whitehorn
8) Opportunities don’t happen. You create them
— Chris Grosser
9) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have
— Thomas Jefferson
10) Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great
— John D. Rockefeller
11) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
12) The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing
— Walt Disney
13) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great
—Mark Twain
14) Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard
— Tim Notke
15) You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great
— Zig Ziglar
16) The biggest risk is not taking any risk
— Mark Zuckerberg
17) Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work
— Steve Jobs
18) Nothing will work unless you do
— Maya Angelou
19) It’s not what you achieve, it’s what you overcome. That’s what defines your career
— Carlton Fisk
20) Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life
— Confucius
21) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
— Eleanor Roosevelt
22) There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention to the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up
—Indra K. Nooyi
23) The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary
— Vidal Sassoon
24) Don’t count the days, make the days count
— Muhammad Ali
25) The best way to predict your future is to create it
— Peter Drucker
26) The secret of getting ahead is getting started
— Sally Berger
27) Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise
— Frank Ocean
James Waite
Founder of Remoteopia, James has worked in remote roles for 6 years. After a stint in recruitment, he now works as a director of website strategy in tech.
