20 Inspirational Career Quotes to Help You Keep Going

Everyone can have downtimes especially at work. If you feel like you have been staring at the excel spreadsheet in your computer screen for the past hour and don’t want to do anything, you may need some inspiration to be able to refunction. Look at the below motivational quotes and write the ones you like on a post-it note. Post these notes on your cubicle and whenever you need inspiration read them to yourself.

  • Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. – Steve Jobs
  • The mind is everything. What you think you become.  – Buddha
  • Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. – Sam Levenson
  • Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it. – Katharine Whitehorn
  • Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. – Robert Louis Stevenson
  • 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
  • You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. – Albert Einstein
  • Either I will find a way, or I will make one. – Phillip Sidney
  • The future depends on what you do today. – Mahatma Gandhi
  • Risk something or forever sit with your dreams. – Herb Brooks
  • Either you run the day, or the day runs you. – Jim Rohn
  • When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. – Dale Carnegie
  • Opportunities don’t happen, you create them. – Chris Grosser
  • It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot
  • Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. – Anna Freud
  • The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. – Jim Rohn
  • Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt
  • Whatever you are, be a good one. – Albert Einstein
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Ceren Cubukcu

Ceren Cubukcu is a top 5 bestselling author of Make Your American Dream A Reality: How to Find a Job as an International Student in the United States. She recently founded her consulting business to help more international students find jobs in the US in addition to her self-service digital event ticketing platform, Etkinlik Fabrikam (My Event Factory), to offer her webinars. 

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