13 Motivational Career Quotes for 2013

Looking for a new job?  Changing your career path?  Pursuing a promotion?

Check out these 13 motivational quotes regarding careers!  Let them inspire you as they do me.

“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.  The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”

~Steve Jobs

“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.”

~Jim Rohn

“For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself:  ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’  And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”

~Steve Jobs

“It’s a beautiful thing when a career and a passion come together.”

~Author unknown

“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.”

~Oprah Winfrey

“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

“Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy.  If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace.  And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.”

~Johnny Carson

“Analyzing what you haven’t got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.”

~Orison Swett Marden

“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

“A successful man continues to look for work after he has found a job.”

~Author unknown

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

~C.S. Lewis

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

~Author unknown

“You have brains in your head.  You have feet in your shoes.  You can steer yourself in any direction you CHOOSE!”

~Dr. Seuss