Top 101 Career Path Quotes

Many professors tell you that you’d be good at this or that, but they don’t always help you with that career path.

When you are born rich, you have all these options. You can pursue a career path that you find interesting; there’s no need or pressure to start working to get funds just for survival, which is something a lot of people have to struggle with.

Boxing is one of the hardest jobs in the world, so when I found my career path, what I’d learnt in the boxing gym meant I was head and shoulders above everybody else.

I have never, for better or worse, thought about a ‘career path’ or anything like that.

I wanted to stay on a career path of the likes of Natalie Portman. I didn’t want to be pigeonholed into a certain genre. I sort of believe that slow and steady wins the race.

Professionalism and punctuality are extremely important, especially in the career path I’ve chosen. Being on sets, film schedules can be very stringent and tight. They are sometimes at odd hours in various locations. Being there when you’re called just ensures that the day starts smoothly.

The Commonwealth Games is an important benchmark in the whole career path of an athlete.

As America knows, Obama turned down the lucrative career path guaranteed to the first African-American president of The Harvard Law Review to pursue the missions of service and teaching instead. The potential rewards for our country, now that that early choice has led him into the White House, are enormous.

No matter what we’re trying to accomplish in life, or what career path we’re trying to take, sometimes we get caught up and lose perspective on what’s important in life.

I wouldn’t have traded my career path for anything.

For so many generations, a woman’s only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

When I was in India, I felt like being a full-time chef was a very unique career path. It was quite the contrast from the traditional fields like engineering and medicine and not necessarily considered a full time profession.

As America knows, Obama turned down the lucrative career path guaranteed to the first African-American president of The Harvard Law Review to pursue the missions of service and teaching instead. The potential rewards for our country, now that that early choice has led him into the White House, are enormous.

I try not to live in the future too much; that can make you crazy as an actor. There are so many people who are obsessed about their career path, like it’s something which you can control, which fundamentally you can’t.

For millennials especially, mobility has become a key factor in selecting a potential career path and in choosing an appropriate employer.

I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design.

Our mission is to support people in their life’s path or career path, as they define it, and really, to help people succeed in whatever way they choose to. That’s what we started from.

I’m a firm believer that you don’t have to pick one career path.

I don’t feel like my career path has changed.

My first job with Walmart was unloading trucks in a warehouse. Then I worked as an assistant manager in a store, and I was lucky enough to get into our buyer-training program. I loved merchandising and had a career path that led me through Sam’s Club and Walmart International.

Dancing and moving and singing and making music has always made sense to me as a way of being. I didn’t know whether it was a viable career path, but I tend to be idealistic.

I describe my career path as a zigzag, not a ladder.

I realised as a teenager that I was destined for a creative life and found that fashion design was something I enjoyed and was a potentially successful career path.

When you look back at your body of work, no matter what your career path, by the time you hang ’em up, if you can say, ‘This place is in better shape than when I started,’ then you did good.

You have to be strategic with your career path and set a goal for yourself so you’re not wandering aimlessly.

For millennials especially, mobility has become a key factor in selecting a potential career path and in choosing an appropriate employer.

I don’t think there’s ever a point when you turn to yourself and go, ‘Yes, I’ve made a success of this career path.’ You never feel like you’ve done your best work. You always think you could be better.

The biggest need that women have is more time. We all want more time in our lives. More time in the morning to get ready. More time in the evening to spend time with our families. All of these things – more time to move up that career path. It’s about time.

I wanted to stay on a career path of the likes of Natalie Portman. I didn’t want to be pigeonholed into a certain genre. I sort of believe that slow and steady wins the race.

I was born in Delhi, have stayed and roamed the world, but had a tough childhood and career path. Only my mom and mausie supported me in music. So, I would just sing shabad kirtan to remain somehow attached to music.

I’m so fortunate that I’ve chosen the right career path. Yes, perhaps I could have been out there with my own restaurant earning a load more dosh, but television has been good to me.

I was born in Delhi, have stayed and roamed the world, but had a tough childhood and career path. Only my mom and mausie supported me in music. So, I would just sing shabad kirtan to remain somehow attached to music.

It wasn’t conscious, but I’m glad I’ve had a slow and steady career path. I wanted to develop my style, and I wanted to be the one making the decisions. Sometimes, when you become a success quickly, those decisions are out of your control.

When I was younger, I had no idea that I would be an actor. I had an interest in it, but I never actually did it. I didn’t really expect it to be a career path.

Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that sort of stuff.

The Commonwealth Games is an important benchmark in the whole career path of an athlete.

I wouldn’t have traded my career path for anything.

Back in 2000, I had come to a crossroads in my life, unsure about what career path I should pursue. Shepherd, bouncer, philosopher king, ventriloquist or perhaps man on the flying trapeze. Fortunately, I was guided back onto the path of the magical world of music.

Going to university is, and should be, so much more than a mechanical process of grinding out a degree qualification for a pre-determined career path.

In undergraduate school, I chose a career path that always leads to certain unemployment: I majored in politics and public affairs with a double-minor in philosophy and history.

Actually, the books were never a planned career path.

My career path is like crazy paving – it goes all over the place.

Three-quarters of our sites – Kotaku, Gawker, Jezebel, Deadspin, Gizmodo, Lifehacker – are led by editors who built their careers within Gawker Media. That’s the career path.

My career path is like crazy paving – it goes all over the place.

I’m so fortunate that I’ve chosen the right career path. Yes, perhaps I could have been out there with my own restaurant earning a load more dosh, but television has been good to me.

I wasn’t one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: ‘I want to do that!’ I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

Saying you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It’s awesome, and it’s out of your control, and it’s not a career path.

Our mission is to support people in their life’s path or career path, as they define it, and really, to help people succeed in whatever way they choose to. That’s what we started from.

My career path is the weirdest thing. I was a hairdresser, I worked at Marvel for a few months, and then I was signed to a DC exclusive for eight years.

It’s nice to have the support of the LGBT community, because they’re loyal, and they’ll follow you down any career path.

All I wanted to do was come into my own and find out my career path and what I wanted to do with my life – but, at the same time, showing respect to my father and mother and make them proud as well.

I describe my career path as a zigzag, not a ladder.

I’m a ‘Bridesmaids’ type of girl. I love silliness. That’s who I am at heart, and I know I can do it. If my career path takes me elsewhere, that’s great. But comedy is my forte.

I’ve always been funny, but I never considered it as a particular career path until my early 30s, when I realized that hip-hop wasn’t going to be the long term.

The biggest need that women have is more time. We all want more time in our lives. More time in the morning to get ready. More time in the evening to spend time with our families. All of these things – more time to move up that career path. It’s about time.