Deciding to move your career forward or to choose a new career?
Usually that is the hardest part, making the decision to do just that – to take action.
Then comes the second part, deciding on how you’re going to set goals and maximize your career potential.

What ever you decide to do, you can always get inspiration from those who already made it.
And what can be better than reading some inspirational career quotes from these guys?

The post provides some of the best quotes on career and success.

Inspirational Career Quotes

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

Desire! That’s the one secret of every man’s career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
Bobby Unser

If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
Zig Ziglar

It’s not what you achieve, it’s what you overcome. That’s what defines your career.
Carlton Fisk

Communication–the human connection–is the key to personal and career success.
Paul J. Meyer

Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.
Robert H. Schuller

Analyzing what you haven’t got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
Orison Swett Marden

Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time
Arnold H. Glasgow

The best way to predict the future is to create it
Abraham Lincoln

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
Abdul Kalam

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
Lou Holtz

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.
Robert Orben

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Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius

What is it that you like doing? If you don’t like it, get out of it, because you’ll be lousy at it.
Lee Iacocca

Just do what you do best.
Auerbach, Red

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
Brian Tracy  

Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially.
David Bach  

The best careers advice to give to the young is, Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.
Katherine Whitehorn

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.
Benjamin F. Fairless

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
Robert Frost

Don’t ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.
Denis Waitley

Fun quotes on career

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B.
Fats Domino

I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since.
Tom Glazer

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.
Marilyn Monroe

Food, love, career and mothers are the four major guilt groups.
Cathy Guisewite

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Gloria Steinem

We pretend to work because they pretend to pay us.
Anonymous

Don’t confuse having a career with having a life.
Hillary Clinton

The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.
Anonymous