Quotes have been speaking to the souls of millennials since our Myspace and away message days. Don’t pretend that you didn’t have a “if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you don’t deserve me at my best” or “and I don’t want the world to see me, ‘cause I don’t think that they’d understand” quote somewhere on your 2005 online presence. Not only did these quotes allow us to speak our soul, but they also gave us motivation. Let’s relive our glory days. Here are the top 25 career quotes to inspire your workday.
- Learn from the past, live in the present, and create your future. – Joel Brown
- I’ve missed more than 9,000 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
- Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you. – Mark Cuban
- You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. – Dr. Seuss
- Opportunities don’t happen, you create them. – Chris Grosser
- Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein
- Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it. – Katharine Whitehorn
- Be so good they can’t ignore you. – Steve Martin
- The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Abraham Lincoln
- Work to become, not to acquire. – Elbert Hubbard
- Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other opinions drown your own inner voice. And more important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. – Steve Jobs
- I never dreamed about success, I worked for it. – Estée Lauder
- Doesn’t matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water. – Mark Cuban
- If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on. – Sheryl Sandberg
- Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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
- No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice. – Rob Liano
- If you don’t build your dream, someone will hire you to help build theirs. – Tony Gaskins
- Be true to what naturally interests you – and be brave enough to turn an obsession into a profession. – Shelly Branch
- There is only one way to avoid criticism. Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. – Aristotle
- Your career is your business. It’s time for you to manage it as a CEO. – Dorit Sher
- Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your two ears. – Laird Hamilton
- You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do. – Confucius
- If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. – Jane Fonda
- Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do. – Oprah
We won’t judge you if you print these out to hang in your cubicle; in fact, we encourage you to do so. Everyone needs a little pick me up now and then, and these quotes are great motivational reminders. Tweet them, post them, share them, read them out loud to your cubicle neighbors – just promise us you won’t set them as your out of office message.
