It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
—Barack Obama (b.1961) American Head of State, Academic, Politician, Author
The best career advice to give to the young is “Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.”
—Katharine Whitehorn (1928–2021) English Journalist, Writer, Columnist
A career is born in public – talent in privacy.
—Marilyn Monroe (1926–62) American Actor, Model, Singer
Look around the habitable world: how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
—Juvenal (c.60–c.136 CE) Roman Poet
Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack.
—John Eliot (b.1971) American Psychologist, Academic
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
—Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American Author, Journalist, Attorney, Lecturer
I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
—Lou Holtz (1893–1980) American Stage Performer
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day…
—Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur
An artist’s career always begins tomorrow.
—James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) American Painter, Etcher
He believes that marriage and a career don’t mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
—Indian Proverb
Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It’s supposed to be fun.
—Barbara Bush (1925–2018) American First Lady
Desire! That’s the one secret of every man’s career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
—Bobby Unser (1934–2021) American Automobile Racer
No decent career was ever founded on a public.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American Novelist
The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
—David Ogilvy (1911–99) British-American Advertising Executive
Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman’s natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.
—Ann Oakley (b.1944) English Sociologist, Writer, Feminist
A good manager is a man who isn’t worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: Don’t worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you’ll float to greatness on their achievements.
—H. S. M. Burns (1900–71) American Businessman
If I had my career over again? Maybe I’d say to myself, speed it up a little.
—James Maitland Stewart (1908–97) American Film Actor
The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English Essayist
The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
—C. Wright Mills (1916–62) American Sociologist, Academic
In the course of heir careers in the American schools of today, most students take hundreds, if not thousands, of tests. They develop skill to a highly calibrated degree in an exercise that will essentially become useless immediately after their last day in school.
—Howard Gardner (b.1943) American Cognitive Psychologist
To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
—Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–73) American Head of State, Political leader
You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don’t bother with other things.
—Marilyn Horne (b.1934) American Mezzo-Soprano
Don’t worry if your job is small and your rewards few. Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you.
—Unknown
The word career is a divisive word. It’s a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
—Grace Paley (1922–2007) American Short-Story Writer, Political Activist
Work to become, not to acquire.
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher
The first essential in a boy’s career is to find out what he’s fitted for, what he’s most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
—Charles M. Schwab (1862–1939) American Businessperson
Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in a river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea. This talent and this call depend on his organization, or the mode in which the general soul incarnates itself in him. He inclines to do something which is easy to him, and good when it is done, but which no other man can do. He has no rival. For the more truly he consults his own powers, the more difference will his work exhibit from the work of any other. His ambition is exactly proportioned to his powers. The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base. Every man has this call of the power to do somewhat unique, and no man has any other call. The pretence that he has another call, a summons by name and personal election and outward “signs that mark him extraordinary, and not in the roll of common men,” is fanaticism, and betrays obtuseness to perceive that there is one mind in all the individuals, and no respect of persons therein.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
—Robert Frost (1874–1963) American Poet
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