Career Quotes

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

John Dos Passos

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

Honore de Balzac

He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swings and makes his point or else is carried headlong.

George Eliot

The home is the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose, and that is to support the ultimate career.

C.S. Lewis

To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Sometimes you have to do the work and hope the career materializes.

Michael Lipsey

Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

Steve Jobs

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side.

James Baldwin

Don't worry if your job is small and your rewards few. Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you.

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Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, How will I get off?

Joan Manley

If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little.

Jimmy Stewart

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

Mother Theresa

Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it. <br/>Become a dedicated fighter for civil rights. <br/>Make it a central part of your life. It will make you a better doctor, a better lawyer, a better teacher. <br/>It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man. <br/>Make a career of humanity.<br/>Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights.<br/>You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

Oscar Wilde

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Clifton Fadiman

My job is quite suitable for full-time mothering

Mare Winningham

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.

Elvis Costello