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People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

John Dos Passos

For many people a job is more than an income – it's an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life.

Paul Clitheroe

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Buddha

It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.

Carlton Fisk

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

Grace Paley

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

Ruth Benedict

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

James Bryce

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

George Bernard Shaw

You look for stars. You look for the makeup of artists who can have long lasting careers and who could be headliners.

Clive Davis

Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.

BC Forbes

THE BEST career advice given to the young is: ?Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.?

Katherine Whitehorn

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Napoleon Hill

Work to become, not to acquire.

Elbert Hubbard

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

Marilyn Monroe

A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him.

H S M Burns

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day...

Orison Swett Marden

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Lou Holtz

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

To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happiness as the world provides. One of the fortunate aspects of this formula is that, granted the right career has been found, the hard work takes care of itself. Then hard work is not hard work at all.

Mark Sullivan

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