Job Seeking Quotes

Life is full of surprises but you are exactly where you are supposed to be. Start there.

Our career mantra should be learn, relearn, repeat.

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

I am suggesting that we don’t put the “income” cart before the “contentment” horse.

Indiscretions can lead to great lessons.

Just make as much money as you can, but try your best not to rob or get robbed, it will sweep all that you have and leave your hands empty.

You'll earn more money doing something you love, rather than just doing something because it pays you a high salary.

At least a hospital stay will give him an excuse to halt the job hunt.

Sometimes life is unpredictable, as are people.

It’s easy to get sidetracked with thoughts that involve much money and precious things, but before you launch into that mode, reason well.

The surest way to ensure career extinction is to resist change and adaptation.

Never allow your reality to be influenced by another's listless view of you.

Jobs suck, but when you work on your passion, it is never a job, no matter how hard and how long you have to work.

When you get clear on your own boundaries, you will find it easy to decide what you're willing to accept in your career.

Before you get a bad attitude by drawing recurring conclusions to new situation based on past experiences, be sure to look for the possibilities.

Whereas previous generations had to face some unpredictability, current generations are facing unprecedented levels of instability.

Finding a job that is a good fit is as much about you selecting the right company as it is about them selecting the right candidate.

I take my integrity seriously, but make no mistake, I do not rely on others to do the same.

Do you want a level of income to fit your lifestyle or a lifestyle to fit your income level?

As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.

Life will astound you when you give something a shot after being shot down.

The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability.

Anything is possible with laughter. If you can laugh out loud, especially at a life of mistakes, you will come out unscathed.

People who believe in their own potential, and who are driven by purpose, rarely have time to talk about it.

Adaptability is the name of the game; if you understand that you must now be adaptable and flexible, you will find a way to succeed in your career. If not, you will succumb to job market pressures.

The construct of retirement is dubious at best and a farce at worst. Expectations contrary to this are to be dashed.

Proper research into organization of interest is a step to getting there.

Opportunities seldom appear wrapped in shiny paper with a big bow as you might hope. Remaining open to the packages they do in fact come in, regardless of how they appear, can lead to hugely profound experiences.

Opportunities rarely give second chances.

There remains a natural career progression even though the tougher job climate seeks to delay it.

When presented with an open door in your job, drive a Mack truck through it.

When my father was 17, he went to Montreal and found these submarine sandwich shops that were really successful, and weren't in Toronto [his home town]. So he went to my grandparents and said: "Look, you have to give me the seed money to open up one of these places. We'll make a fortune. They've got lines going round the block. There's nothing like that here." And my grandfather's response was: "Look, I'm sure these sandwiches are really good, and if we scraped the money together we could make a lot of money and your mother and I would be really proud of you, but you need to find something that has *magic* in it for you." It was off of that conversation that my father went to college on a music scholarship, started a film club and became one of the most successful directors of all time.

In the name of all that is holy, please consider the wages of a particular profession before you select that degree plan.

Sometimes you have to "play the part" to become the part.

Other people's criticisms about what you are capable of, have nothing to do with you.

Often, it takes more guts than skill to open doors. Once the doors get opened, then it's up to you.

Successful people will tell you that they do not wonder if they are going to succeed. They know they will. It's just a matter of when.

Where there is less pain, there is also less pay.

Those things that are not within your control can often be the very things that set you free.

As long as you're alive you're going to be thrown a few obstacles. It's what you do with them that matters.

Creative solutions come at drastic times, if you open your mind to the possibilities. Free yourself to take a chance!

Life's unpredictable path and length, should be enough to make you want to take a chance.

What makes a person unique is their vision, their belief, their passion, and their flat out unwillingness to give up.

Labor saving devices have destroyed many jobs but have given rise to many new ones. It simply is up to us if we are going to resist or embrace the future.

When you seek first to develop relationships based on personal and human ground, you will surely gain interest of another party.

Sometimes what may appear as unfair, may actually be a huge favor from the Universe, pushing you in the right direction to live your dreams.

It's your life and no one else cares as much about it as you should.

What someone may lack in talent can be more than made up for in self-motivation, self-direction, and follow-through.

Everyone is dispensable but some are more dispensable than others.

Can’t we do better with Applicant Tracking System (ATS) software?

Often it takes more guts than skill to open doors. Once the doors get opened, then it's up to you.

Earn your confidence, nurture it, then help to build it in others.

It takes literally no effort to allow yourself to drift into a negative state of mind. However, an inspired mind is one that has been developed and is constantly practiced in the art of visualization, positive thinking, and unwavering belief in potential and possibility.

When it comes to recognizing your greatness, start first within your mind. Start now, in this moment. Imagine, imagine, imagine and then believe!

There is enough work for every soul, if we use our specific gifts to meet the specific needs of the society.

Choose your path or others may choose it for you.

Money should be ones demand and not command, one should not become a slave of Money because we made money to help us trade and not to make us, we're already made even without money.

Stand strong in your value. That starts by knowing your value.

Do not waste your life, in search for a job.Use your special gifts to create work for yourself.

When you work on what you love, you have the best job in the world.