career quotes

“A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night. ”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street- cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.”

— Terry Pratchett

“I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.”

— Charlie Chaplin

“I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.”

— Marie Curie

“I've never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else.”

— Antonio Banderas

“Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.”

— Og Mandino

“I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend. ”

— Christina Aguilera

“To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms. ”

— Christina Aguilera

“I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater. ”

— Jim Carrey

“I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged. ”

— Jim Carrey

“It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes. ”

— Jim Carrey

“One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.”

— Audrey Hepburn

“Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I'm not married; I don't have kids; I can focus on my career.”

— Kim Kardashian

“That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.”

— Stephen King

“My so-called career is a haphazard thing.”

— Paul McCartney

“I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.”

— Steve Martin

“I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and suddenly along came the opportunity to do this beautiful film. It was so emotional to me. I loved it. I don't think it was a good career move, but I have no regrets about doing it.”

— Steve Martin

“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

“I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.”

— Marilyn Manson

“And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.”

— Michelle Obama

“A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty.”

— Dolly Parton

“I've enjoyed all the parts of my career.”

— Dolly Parton

“I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.”

— Mitt Romney

“Second, we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. When it comes to the school your child will attend, every parent should have a choice, and every child should have a chance.”

— Mitt Romney

“Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.”

— Bill Gates

“No decent career was ever founded on a public.”

— Francis Scott Fitzgerald