Job Quotes! 150 Quotes about Job to Inspire You for New Job
New Job Quotes
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”—Beverly Sills
“To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.”—Pearl S. Buck
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”—Eleanor Roosevelt
“A new job is like a blank book and you are the author.”—Author unknown
“Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interests you.”—Leigh Steinburg
“Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for doing it.”—Katharine Whitehorn
“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.”—Sheryl Sandberg
“I still get the jitters every time I start a new job! I love it—makes you feel alive.”—Camille Guaty
“By doing, you become employable. It doesn’t matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.”—Kate Reardon
“Starting a new job can be nerve-racking, but it’s also exciting. You’re embarking on a new future, positioning yourself to write a fresh story on a clean slate.”—Adena Friedman
“Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.”—Felicia Day
“When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page.”—Eileen Caddy
“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
Inspirational Job Quotes
“One person with courage makes a majority.” —Andrew Jackson
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” —Milton Berle
“It’s time to start living the life we’ve imagined.” —Henry James
“There is a way to do it better…find it. —Thomas Edison
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” —Robert F. Kennedy
“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.” —Booker T. Washington
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.” —Helen Keller
“All our dreams can come true—if we have the courage to pursue them.” —Walt Disney
“Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid.” —Albert Schweitzer
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up.” —Vince Lombardi
“Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” —Winston Churchill
“All of the darkness of the world cannot put out the light of one small candle.” —Anonymous
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” —Confucius
“The voyage of discovery is not in looking for new landscapes, but in looking with new eyes.” —Anonymous
“No one ever gets very far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.” —Elbert Hubbard
“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” —T.S. Eliot
“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.” —Thomas Jefferson
“Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.” —Yogi Berra
“To be a great champion, you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.” —Muhammad Ali
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.” —Aldous Huxley
“Trust people and they will be true to you; Treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes
“There are so many things you can learn about. But you’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.” —Dr. Seuss
“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.” —Norman Vincent Peale
“The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from the shore.” —Dale Carnegie
“Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.” —Benjamin Franklin
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” —Henry David Thoreau
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” —Calvin Coolidge
“If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.” —Martin Luther King
Motivational Job Search Quotes
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” —Albert Einstein
“The harder I practice, the luckier I get.”—Gary Player
“Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” —Vince Lombardi
“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” —Estee Lauder
“If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.” —Latin Proverb
“Don’t confuse having a career with having a life.” —Hillary Clinton
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”—Marilyn Monroe
“A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.” —Arthur Golden
“Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspirations and expectation.” —Jack Nicklaus
“Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they never quit.” —J.W. Marriot
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.”—Steve Jobs
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” —Norman Vincent Peale
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want something.”—Randy Pausch
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” —Alexander Graham Bell
“The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The average person puts only 25% of his energy into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.” —Andrew Carnegie
Starting a New Job Quotes
“The expert in anything was once a beginner.” —Helen Hayes
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!” —Henry David Thoreau
“Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.” —Babe Ruth
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” —Sam Levenson
“You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.” —Henry Ford
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” —Karen Lamb
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” —Robert Collier
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” —E.E. Cummings
“Don’t set compensation as a goal. Find work you like and the compensation will follow.” —Harding Lawrence
“Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interests you.” —Leigh Steinberg
“Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.” —Alan Cohen
“If we all did the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.” —Thomas Edison
“Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.” —Hamilton Holt
“I still get the jitters every time I start a new job! I love it — makes you feel alive.” —Camille Guaty
“The more you do stuff, the better you get at dealing with how you still fail at it a lot of the time.” —John Mulaney
“Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.” —Lou Holtz
“Feeling confident – or pretending that you feel confident – is necessary to reach for opportunities. It’s a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they’re seized.” —Sheryl Sandberg
“Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.” —Felicia Day
“We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” —Arianna Huffington
“When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page.” —Eileen Caddy
“I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of “Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,” and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.” —Marissa Mayer
Dream Job Quotes
“Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.” —Unknown
“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.” —Oprah Winfrey
“It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” —Howard Ruff
“Getting paid to sleep … that’s my dream job.” —Unknown
“Goals are new, forward-moving objectives. They magnetize you towards them.” —Mark Victor Hansen
“Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.” —King Solomon
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“The only goal you can’t accomplish is the one that you don’t go after.” —Vilis Ozols
“Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.” —Oprah Winfrey
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” —Abraham Lincoln
“No matter what you’re doing, try to work at that task like it’s your dream job.” —Russell Simmons
“If you are facing in the right direction, all you need to do is keep on walking.” —Buddhist Saying
“The difference between can and cannot are only three letters. Three letters that determine your life’s direction.” —Remez Sasson
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” —Colin Powell
“Those who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.” —Samuel Smiles
“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.” —Pamela Vaull Starr
“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remained unsung.” —Rabindranath Tagore
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.” —Albert Einstein
“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‘Always do what you are afraid to do.’ —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I will never quit. I persevere and thrive on adversity … If knocked down, I will get back up every time.” —The US Navy Seals
“If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl. But by all means, keep moving.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
“When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.” —Napoleon Hill
“Better to have spent a life reaching for a dream that never came true, than to have slept through a life that never had a dream.” —Samantha Pickreign
“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.” —Pope John XXIII
“The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career.” —Earl Nightingale
“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.” —Woodrow Wilson
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.” —Lao Tzu
Jobs Quotes and Sayings
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” —Aristotle
“Do the job for the joy of work.” —Lailah Gifty Akita
“He who loves his job, will own it.” —Lailah Gifty Akita
“A job is a safe place to hide from work.” —Unknown
“There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.” —William J. Bennett
“A job isn’t just a job. It’s who you are.” —Unknown
“If a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing well.” —Unknown
“Do your job and demand your compensation but in that order.” —Cary Grant
“You’ll be happy if you are doing a job you love.” —Dr T.P.Chia
“A job should only be a means of attaining the highest goal.” —Sunday Adelaja
“You will find a job, if you are willing to work.” —Lailah Gifty Akita
“The big jobs are for the ones who can handle the small ones.” —Unknown
“The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.” —Unknown
“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.” —Dale Carnegie
“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” —Oscar Wilde
“When you have a permanent job, remember that the job is permanent not you.” —Unknown
“If you have a job without any aggravations, you don’t have a job.” —Malcolm S. Forbes
“Joy in your Job is possible to the extent you’re willing to choose it.” —Todd Stocker
“Don’t pick a job with a great vacation time. Pick one that doesn’t need escaping from.” —Unknown
“It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t.” —Martin Van Buren
“A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.” —Zig Ziglar
“Many men beg for a job but have no clue what hard work really means.” —Bill Courtney
“If you think you’re too big for small jobs, maybe you’re too small for big job.” —Unknown
“Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.” —H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.” —Unknown
“People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.” —Bob Nelson
“While you wait for your dream job, you can engage yourself with the available job.” —Lailah Gifty Akita
“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The problem with having a job is that it gets in the way of getting rich.” —Robert Kiyosaki
“There is no future in any job. The future lies in the person who holds the job.” —George Crane
“Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” —Confucius
“The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.” —Robert Frost
“If you say your job is something you “don’t plan on doing forever,” then why are you doing it now? —Simon Sinek
“The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.” —G M Trevelyan
“When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.” —Laura Ingalls Wilder
“If you do the right job then money will come to you. Because people who need you will request, will ask for you, will attract you, and will be willing to pay you for your services.” —Jose Silva