1,805 Quotes About Career

A friend’s 14-year-old niece was asked by her teacher what she wanted to be when she finished school. The teacher asked her to think hard about it and then get back to him with an answer. She didn’t know what to say to her teacher. A friend, on hearing the girl’s predicament, said: ‘Tell your teacher that, perhaps, the thing you want to be when you leave school hasn’t been invented yet.

Our attitudes are the wings on which our talent and careers fly or dive.

Ability determines if you can; attitude determines if you will.

It’s true what they say about men in New York. They all work too much. Devote too much time to their careers, not enough to love, to family.

It is through strength of character, not luck, do we form the predictable path of our future.

Sometimes you’ve just got to take a chance. Allow yourself to be vulnerable.

It was getting harder to fake the smile, harder to make the effort.

In order to have a family life and a career, women must move twice as fast to arrive at the same place. Rather than being assisted with this unlikely feat--say, via paid parental leave, accelerator programs at work, or partners willing to sideline their own careers for a few years--women are scolded, told they should have found a boyfriend in college, had a baby by twenty-seven.

Jealousy makes people act dumb sometimes