Top 480 Career Quotes

M. J. was M. J. His body of work speaks for itself. We’ve seen his career, we’ve dissected his career and had the chance to watch it. That’s done.
B. J. Armstrong
I made the difficult decision to retire because a campaign of bullying, intimidation and retaliation by President Trump and his allies forever limited the progression of my military career.
Alexander Vindman
I wouldn’t have a career if it wasn’t for the ‘Fortnite’ Community.
Ninja
For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.
Lando Norris
One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you.
John Carpenter
I’m trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.
Aaron Lazar
Music has always been a big part of Cheech & Chong’s career, so it’s just natural. You know, I was a musician before I met Cheech and had a record with Motown, and so I’ve got the cred.
Tommy Chong
I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that’s what I want as a career. I don’t need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I’m doing stuff that I’m proud of, really.
Aaron Paul
If you want something, work hard for it, go after it. I can’t worry about all the ‘no’s, because I believe there’s a yes, and I’ve been very fortunate to find those in my career and made the most of those opportunities.
Mara Brock Akil
This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.
Al Jourgensen
One of the most exciting intellectual moments of my career was my 1948 discovery of Knut Wicksell’s unknown and untranslated dissertation, ‘Finanztheoretische Untersuchungen,’ buried in the dusty stacks of Chicago’s old Harper Library.
James M. Buchanan
I left the ‘Trib’ in 1970 with the feeling that I would never have a career in establishment media of any kind.
Molly Ivins
I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‘You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.’
Joe Biden
I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right thing. I was dying inside. If I didn’t have my daughter, I would be dead right now, for sure.
Brian Welch
The thing I’m most proud of in my career was to be able to help two organizations go someplace that they’ve never been before. Not many people get that opportunity to do it with one.
Kurt Warner
I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.
Francis Ford Coppola
I always want to win, and it was time to win some club

I always want to win, and it was time to win some club prizes, some titles. I never would have gone for the money, but wanted the chance to get a bit further in my career. And it turned out to be the right decision.
Robin Van Persie
I’d change nothing in my career path. I was never built for being a handsome teenage star. That’s just not in my psyche, I think. I would have hated to have grown up famous.
Jason Clarke
It is very important for an artiste to be excited about her work in every phase of her career. If a tiredness seeps into one’s attitude, it will show in the quality of one’s work.
Sridevi
I always knew what I wanted, and I always had a very clear vision for myself and my career as an artist.
Aimee Osbourne
When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.
Brad Pitt
Passion is what gives meaning to our lives. It’s what allows us to achieve success beyond our wildest imagination. Try to find a career path that you have a passion for.
Henry Samueli
I got southern roots from Texas all the way to Louisiana, went to Grambling State back in the day, my whole career I’ve done songs with down South artists.
E-40
Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.
Damon Hill
I was a Senate spouse for many, many years. I kept my own career. I was teaching and Joe was doing politics. I realized when we were elected vice president that I had a platform and I knew I was not going to waste my platform. It was going to focus women and girls’ education.
Jill Biden
‘Fruitvale’ set the bar for what I wanted to do with my career, which was to make films that had consciousness and messaging in an entertaining package. Once I hit that mark, I never wanted to go back.
Rachel Morrison
I can never celebrate a success in my career without it being picked apart because of my size or ‘my health.’
Tess Holliday
I think there’s no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people’s lives and improve the world.
Jack Lew
The opportunity to be a part of the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Rio is a huge milestone in my career, and it will be the biggest performance of my life.
Kygo
The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
Ice Cube
Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
Rafael Nadal
I’ve been very, very, very, very fortunate, and I’m very grateful for my career and that, at 60, I won an Emmy.
Margo Martindale
After I got back my career and my artistic freedom in 1982, my golden rule is the music must never suffer.
Chris Rea
I’ve come to a point in my career where it doesn’t matter if I dribble or nutmeg someone. The only thing that matters is whether I was decisive, did I put the ball in the back of the net today, and did it help the team win.
Raheem Sterling
I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you’re wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness.
Jeffrey Tate
I went through my entire public school career going to bed crying because I was getting Ds.
Eric Adams
I want to finish my career in Cleveland. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues.
Asdrubal Cabrera
Nothing is written in stone, as a career is an unpredictable journey.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
My career has been an inch at a time.
Ryan Reynolds
It’s become a lot bigger than just winning championships. It’s about inspiring hopefully millions at some point in my career.
Jordan Burroughs
As an artist, you have to work hard for things that you can’t really hold in your hand. I work not for money but for my career, to expand myself as an artist. Every video I make, it’s not making me any money; it’s just because I want to expand.
Kali Uchis
When streaming came out years ago I loved it. I loved having an audience, I loved chatting away and looking at a live chat and now on Twitch you can actually get a career at it.
Limmy
I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.
Ed Harris
As a girl, I abandoned a promising singing career due to violent harassment by Islamists.
Deeyah Khan
I think I’m learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven’t always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.
Winona Ryder
‘True Detective’ did change my career.
Alexandra Daddario
If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.
William Petersen
This was more than just a cow - this was an entire care

This was more than just a cow – this was an entire career I was looking at.
Gary Larson
People are afraid of things they don’t understand. They don’t know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.
Bill Laswell
I always pray for God’s guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way.
Ben Carson
I’m dating a very high-maintenance career.
Aimee Garcia
The film, ‘Searching For Sugar Man,’ has excited my music career.
Sixto Rodriguez
My family has reduced the effect of my career on my self-esteem. When I’m with them, they make me feel special regardless of how I play.
Phil Mickelson
My career has been defined, in a good way, on the option route. And a lot of times, it’s a bang-bang play. It’s a great play because it can convert first downs. But at the same time, you don’t get a lot of those opportunities in the open field.
Jason Witten
Bad improv happens with people who are inexperienced with each other and don’t know the craft that well. But bad stand-up is something that could happen to someone at any level in their career.
Kristen Schaal
The best way to advance in a career is to get great results while working with people.
Henry Cloud
I was called Matt Dillon’s brother my whole career basically until ‘Entourage’ broke me free of that and now people call me Johnny Drama instead.
Kevin Dillon
I am blessed to have married the man that God sent me. He’s loving, compassionate, strong and supportive of my children, family and career. I look forward to our lives together.
Monica
Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Partnering up with the Monster Energy Outbreak Tour marks a milestone moment in my career.
A Boogie wit da Hoodie
There were a lot of surreal, amazing moments during my career that I’m very lucky to have had.
Edge
I liked ‘Brighton Beach Memoirs,’ which I did with Neil Simon. I kind of was playing him, as Eugene Morris Jerome, and I played that a few times at the very beginning of my career.
Matthew Broderick
Live performance really terrifies me. I haven’t done it, really, in years. I think that’s why I retired from my brief career in stand-up.
Mindy Kaling