45 Best Motivational Quotes On Reaching Your Career Goals

Reaching your career goals is no easy feat and most of the time you’ll encounter blockages along the way. The important thing here is to never stay stagnant and forge on. With that said, we’ve compiled these quotes from successful people, philosophers, entrepreneurs, and teachers! Bask on their wisdom and just believe that you can one day reach your career goals too.

45 Best Motivational Quotes On Reaching Your Career Goals

“Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.”
― Idowu Koyenikan

“Stars do not pull each other down to be more visible; they shine brighter.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Earn Nicely, spend wisely and you will live happily.”
― Auliq Ice

“I’ve missed more than 13040 shots in my business and music career. There are times I’ve been trusted to create or 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”
― DON SANTO

“Our attitudes are the wings on which our talent and careers fly or dive.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Education, life lessons and knowledge will help shape your career but your level of success and livelihood will only be reflected when you show up and be the person you are meant to be.”
― Germany Kent

“Aim higher in case you fall short.”
― Suzanne Collins

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
― Albert Einstein

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”
― Louisa May Alcott

“You never know what’s around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you’ve climbed a mountain.”
― Tom Hiddleston

“The key to a rich life and career: love yourself, value yourself, back yourself and believe in yourself.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“What you are willing to study for is a hobby, what you are wiling to strive for is a job, what you are willing to suffer for is a career, and what you are willing to die for is a calling.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“There’s a lot of truth in saying “employees don’t quit their jobs, they quit their managers.” It’s actually 100% true if you think about it. There are many different things that impact any employees happiness at work. One of them is playing favorites.”
― Timi Nadela

“Learn discipline, the first quality to have a successful career and learn manners, the first quality to be a successful person”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Your certificate and skills are vital but only to the extent of jump-starting your career and giving you a chance to compete in a global space.”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive

“To have more than you have, you have to become more than you are”
― Saji Ijiyemi

“If you approach your job search with a positive attitude and insatiable curiosity and drive, the universe will have your back.”
― Michelle Kinsman

“No career counselor or internship will be able to help you with your career if you don’t have an aim, purpose, and passion for what you want to do in life.”
― Germany Kent

“By broadening our perspectives and expanding our creative approaches to situations, we can understand that giving is a never-ending process and benefits us throughout the lengths of our careers.”
― Michelle Tillis Lederman

“Elevate your self worth first, before you reach out to the world is search for promotions, transformation starts within.”
― Wayne Chirisa

“Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.”
― Paulo Coelho

“What you learn determines what you earn.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“You are only as valuable as the value you add to others.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
― Bruce Lee

“When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.”
― Napoleon Hill

“It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, she said, is figuring out what you’re willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.”
― Shauna Niequist

“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“How you perform a job is more important than what kind of job it is.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“I’ve come to realise that the real magic is when you live a life in which others, not just yourself, truly benefit for you living it.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“The person must utilize adequate quantitative and/or qualitative reasoning in order to solve both ill and well defined problems for his or her assigned tasks.”
― Saaif Alam

“Find a career that will help you change the world, not just your financial status.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“There is no higher priority for those who chose a university career than acting in the students’ best interest. That’s because students are the core of the university.”
― Eraldo Banovac

“It is better to be exceptional at one thing than to be ordinary at many.”
― Matshona Dhliwayohliwayo

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti

“Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.”
― Criss Jami

“Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Goals are the road maps that guide you to your destination.
Cultivate the habit of setting clearly-defined written goals; they are the road maps that guide you to your destination.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.”
― Aaron Lauritsen

“Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Dream while others are sleeping. Dare while others are wishing. Do while others are talking. Deliver while others are quitting.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Experience’ is overrated. What matters is quality experience, i.e. where someone succeeded and knows why. Or where someone failed and learned why. Wheels spinning for ten years and then adding a title to your resume doesn’t count for much. Yet too many people take other people’s proclamations of ‘I have years of experience’ for granted. What KIND of experience? Verify. Verify. Always verify.”
― Monroe Mann

“Start today creating a vision for yourself, your life, and your career. Bounce back from adversity and create what you want, rebuild and rebrand. Tell yourself it’s possible along the way, have patience, and maintain peace with yourself during the process.”
― Germany Kent

“Stand strong in your value. That starts by knowing your value.”
― Julieanne O’Connor

“Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.”
― Arnold Joseph Toynbee

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