June 2019

Are you lacking the inspiration to work on a Monday morning? Always looking forward to Friday evening because you can’t just wait to get off work? The truth is that you will be spending about one-third of your entire life on your job and trust me you definitely don’t want to spend it that way Bauce Mag.

So, whether you are just getting started with your career or not, here are a few motivational quotes for career growth to put you on the success track in your career.

List Of Top 10 Motivational Quotes For Career Growth

1. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

This one is from Albert Einstein. Mistakes are inevitable especially if you are trying out new things. Don’t allow the fear of making mistakes stop you from trying out new things. Every notable invention we have today started from someone trying out something new.

2. “It is not the days in your life, but the life in your days that counts.”

This is a quote by Brian White. Really, it is not about how long you have lived but how much you have achieved. How much impact have you made? Don’t just number your days. Make your days count.

3. “I cannot do everything but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do”

This is one of my favorite quotes from Helen Keller. This is about finding your space and dominating there. Don’t try to do everything, just find the one thing that you love to do and direct all your energy in that direction.

4. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

This one is from Abraham Lincoln. It is one of my all-time favorites. No one knows what the future holds, but you have a 99% chance of predicting the future right by creating it. 15 years ago, Facebook could correctly predict that the future is social media because they created it.

5. “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.”

This is a quote by Robert H. Schuller. We need to stop seeing failure as a failure. Michael Jordan said “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.”

6. “Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.”

This quote is by Katherine Whitehorn. Find your passion. Don’t go after the pay, go after your passion. One easy way to find out your passion is to ask yourself: can I continue to do this even if there is no monetary value attached to it? After finding your passion, you can then look for someone that can pay you for what you do. This way, you can never get bored with your job.

7. “When you start to do the things that you truly love, it wouldn’t matter whether it is Monday or Friday; you would be so excited to wake up each morning and work on your passions”.

Confucius also said, “Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.” Here is a quick question for you to ponder on. Are you in the job you want or the job you got?

8. “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.”

You never can tell if it will work out if you never tried it. Don’t approach things with the pessimist’s mindset of what if it doesn’t work out. Approach it with the optimist’s mindset of what if it works out. Fran Hauser also said “If you take a risk and it doesn’t go as planned, welcome to the club”

9. “No one gets promoted by just doing their jobs.”

This is a universal law of sowing and reaping. You cannot reap the harvest of what you did not sow. Doing your jobs will only earn you the rewards attached to it; your salary. To get more, you need to give more.

You have to offer much more than what is in your job’s description. Aside from the increase in salary, promotion is a call to a higher responsibility. If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done.

10. “Your limitation – it’s only in your imagination.”

Really, there are no limitations. The only limitations are the ones we create in our imagination.

Additional Quotes That Would Come In Handy When You Need Some Inspiration In Your Career

• Don’t stop when you are tired, stop when you are done.
• True success is not a measure of how much you possess but how much you have impacted the society.
• It might be difficult but it is not impossible.
• We make good decisions when we have good information.
• Behind every successful man, there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
• Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
• Great things never come to you in your comfort zones.

I was once a student and I understand how sometimes you might lack the inspiration to study. Many at times, the loads of assignment you have to do or the number of materials you have to study makes you want to give up. So, I have put together a list of my top inspiring quotes for students to work hard.

List Of Top 10 Inspiring Quotes For Students To Work Hard

1. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

This is one of my favorite quotes by John Wooden. Rather than paying attention to the things you cannot do, just focus on the ones you can do. Most students don’t get inspired to read a subject probably because they don’t understand some of the topics that were taught.

If you find yourself in a situation like this, just start off with the ones you understand and along the way, you will begin to understand the ones that were looking so abstract to you.

2. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”

This quote is by Robert Collier. Little drops of water make the mighty ocean. Consistent little efforts can go a long way in being successful. You need to know that consistency is key here. Vidal Sassoon said “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary”

3. “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities.

They vary in their desires to reach their potentials.” This is a quote by John Maxwell which I know will come in handy when you need inspiration. Everyone has the same ability, the differentiating point between the successful and the unsuccessful is in how they use their ability.

Never get to the point where you conclude that someone is smarter than you or someone is brighter than you or some heights are only for some certain people. If you believe you can and you set your mind to achieve it, then there is no height you cannot attain.

4. “I don’t regret the things I have done. I regret the things I did not do when I had the time”

Set a goal for yourself, do all that you can do now to achieve the goal so you would not be filled with regrets later on.

5. “Strive for progress, not perfection.”

One common mistake we all make is that we try to be perfect. No one can attain perfection that is why perfection should not be the end goal. We should seek to make progress. We would definitely encounter a lot of mistakes along the way, we learn from it, and make progress.

I will back this up with John Maxwell’s quote. “There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done and those who don’t want to make mistakes”

6. “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”

Procrastination is a key issue that needs to be addressed for you to attain success. Don’t procrastinate till tomorrow what you can do today. You don’t have to be great to start but you have to start to be great

7. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”

This is a quote by Beverly Sills. Success does not come so easily. You have to work hard for it just like the name implies ‘hard work’. It will require you to go the extra mile, and that is the key difference between the ordinary and the extraordinary.

You will have to dedicate your time and energy towards it. It might require you to forego a little bit of fun.  Just like Thomas Edison said, “There is no substitute for hard work.” It is hard but it’s going to worth it in the end.

8. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur Michelangelo, Mother Teressa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”

This a quote by H. Jackson Brown Jr. All successful people don’t have more time than you do. We all have 24 hours in a day, it is how well we are able to utilize it that will make a difference.

9. “Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”

This was a quote by Henry Ford. You need to stop seeing failure as ‘failure’. The truth is the successful people we have in society today have failed more times than the unsuccessful people.

Failure basically is an opportunity to try again with a better understanding now. You should not see failure as the end of the world. In fact, failing is something you should be looking forward to on the road to success.

10. “You have to get up every morning with determination if you want to go to bed with satisfaction.”

Start your day with determination, determination to achieve something. That will help you in achieving your goals.

Check out this guide for students to be successful in making money without a job

Some Other Great quotes:

• I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
• I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs, but how high he bounces when he hits the bottom.
• If you are going through hell, keep going
• Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.
• You don’t drown by falling in the water, you drown by staying there.
• The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping-stone is how high you raise your foot.

Conclusion

Remember, it is not a function of how much you know but a function of how much you can do with what you know. You have read some of the top inspirational quotes, it is not enough to just read them.

What have you gained? Note the key points, write an action plan and follow through with it. You won’t get what you want just by making wishes, you will get what you work for. Do you want it? Work for it!