A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
Benjamin Disraeli
I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.
Jackie Chan
Fans made me. The fans gave me a chance, and they made me. Beyond that, my career has been trials and tribulations and ups and downs, so I have to have true fans riding with me.
Puff Daddy
I’m thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are.
Brett Favre
Sometimes you get caught up in what’s going on around you. The reality is that you are just a regular person. At some point, the career will be over, the bright lights turn off. That can come back to haunt you if you’re not just a regular guy.
Brett Favre
John Travolta said he sometimes lets his friends take control of his airplane even though they don’t know what they’re doing. Then Travolta said he often does the same thing with his career.
Conan O’Brien
The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
Alan Greenspan
The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.
George Harrison
One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.
Mercedes McCambridge
When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.
Calvin Klein
I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because I truly do believe that I was blessed by a lot of people that paths crossed mine as I went down the road in my career.
Nolan Ryan
I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.
Magic Johnson
Let’s face facts, this is visual medium, there’s a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don’t make a career out of that anymore as an actor.
Alec Baldwin
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
Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.
Mark Messier
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds. Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
Patanjali
The past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
Marilyn Ferguson
If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
Joseph Campbell
The worst days of those who enjoy what they do, are better than the best days of those who don’t.
E. James Rohn
The strongest oak tree of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.
Napoleon Hill
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
The decisions you make about your work life are especially important, since most people spend more of their waking lives working than doing anything else. Your choices will affect, not only yourself and those closest to you, but in some way the whole world.
Laurence G. Boldt
There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy
Talents are common, everyone has them – but rare is the courage to follow our talents where they lead.
Anon
There is no security in life, only opportunity.
Mark Twain
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw
We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson
The best career advice given to the young is: Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.
Katherine Whitehorn
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Napoleon Hill
Work to become, not to acquire.
Elbert Hubbard
A career is born in public – talent in privacy.
Marilyn Monroe
A good manager is a man who isn’t worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him.
H S M Burns
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day…
Orison Swett Marden
I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
Lou Holtz
Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
Barack Obama
To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happiness as the world provides. One of the fortunate aspects of this formula is that, granted the right career has been found, the hard work takes care of itself. Then hard work is not hard work at all.
Mark Sullivan
People don’t choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.
John Dos Passos
For many people a job is more than an income – it’s an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life.
Paul Clitheroe
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
Buddha
It’s not what you achieve, it’s what you overcome. That’s what defines your career.
Carlton Fisk
The word career is a divisive word. It’s a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
Grace Paley