Job Search Quotes of the Week

“Giving up a goal because of a setback is like slashing your other three tires when you get a flat.” - Unknown

"Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find." - Ann Patchett

Career Management Quotes of the Week

 "Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned, didn't mean they had gone wrong." - Ann Patchett

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." - Og Mandino

Job Search Quotes of the Week

"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place." - Nora Roberts

“Use a few minutes at the end of each day to create a DONE list.” – Carrie Greene

Career Management Quotes of the Week

“Previous attempts to create strict boundaries between our personal life and work often resulted in disappointment. So maybe it’s time to draw a different kind of line in the sand.” - Meghan M. Biro

"You are under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. You are here to create yourself, continuously." - Richard Feynman

Job Search Quotes of the Week

"Learn to be thankful for what you already have, while you pursue all that you want." - Jim Rohn

 

“A Negative Mind Will Never Give You A Positive Life.”
–Lene Andersen

Career Management Quotes of the Week

 

“We must put ourselves in a position to get what we need from our employer. We need to find a way to be seen... and heard!" - Meghan M. Biro

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." - Thomas Huxley

 

Job Search Quotes of the Week

"Efforts is one of those things that gives meaning to life.  Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it." - Carol Dweck

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely " - Auguste Rodin

Career Management Quotes of the Week

"Increase your gratitude and you will improve your attitude!" - Unknown

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.  If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough." - Oprah Winfrey

Job Search Quotes of the Week

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying - I will try again tomorrow.” - Mary Anne Radmacher

"Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it." - Winston Churchill

 

Career Management Quotes of the Week

"Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out." - John Wooden

"Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it." - Ann Landers

Job Search Quotes of the Week

“Having an idea is great – but it’s action that turns idea into reality.  Take a step, any step, to build momentum.” – Carrie Greene

"Backwards step are sometimes necessary in order to give you a proper runway to take off and fly." - Unknown

Career Management Quotes of the Week

 "Don't wait for inspiration.  It comes while one is working." - Henri Matisse

"What a glorious gift is imagination, and what satisfaction if affords!" - Thomas Mann

Job Search Quotes of the Week

 

“It is when things are the most uncertain that the most possibility exist.” - Unknown

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” - Nelson Mandela

Career Management Quotes of the Week

 “If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.” - David Allen

"This is how you stay fresh and motivated.  Always be learning." - Kara Goldin

Job Search Quotes of the Week

 “Big change is the result of hundreds of tiny steps, and they all count!” – Unknown

“Don’t whine, don’t complain, don’t make excuses. Just do the best you can. Nobody can do more than that.” – Coach John Wooden

Career Management Quotes of the Week

 "If you're not moving forward and you're not evolving, your devolving, and I don't want to go backwards.  I want to be better at what I do tomorrow than I am today."  - Audra McDonald

"What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all." - Willie Mays

Job Search Quotes of the Week

 

"Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear." - Dale Carnegie

"If Plan A isn't working, I have a Plan B, C and even a Plan D." - Serena Williams

Career Management Quotes of the Week

 “When you take control of your time, tasks and physical space, your distractions will disappear.” – Carrie Greene

“Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.” —Keri Russell

Job Search Quotes of the Week

"When you least expect it, something great will come along.  Something better than you ever planned for.  Be patient.  Be Smart.  Stay focused.  - Unknown 

 "Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try." - Unknown

Career Management Quotes of the Week

 "You must learn a new way to think, before you can master a new way to be." -  Marianne Williamson

"You've got brains in your head. You've got feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose." - Unknown

Job Search Quotes of the Week

 "Start small and start immediately." - Cal Newport

"There are some things you learn best in the calm, and some in the storm." - Willa Cather

Career Management Quotes of the Week

 "Ask yourself:  Where to you show up best?" - Natasha Hemmingway

"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." - Jim Rohn

Job Search Quotes of the Week

 “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want something.” - Randy Pausch

“Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they never quit.”  - J.W. Marriot

Career Management Quotes of the Week

"Don't draw your path.  Let the journey take you where you need to go." - Abdo Riani

 "You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." - William Faulkner

Job Search Quotes of the Week

 "Success is the Star. Failure is the Producer." "Richard Fenton & Andrea Waltz's Dose of NOtivation

 

 

"But what if I fail? You will. The answer to the what if question is, you will.  A better question might be, after I fail, what then? Because, after you fail, you are once step closer to success!” – Seth Godin

Career Management Quotes of the Week

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." - Jane Goodall 

"Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?" - Edward Weston

Job Search Quotes of the Week

 "Choose carefully, as a job is not just a job, but a significant part of your life each week." - Unknown

"Manage your job search, don't just throw resumes out there and hope." - Unknown

Career Management Quotes of the Week

 "I'd always rather stand or fall on my own mistakes." - Donna Tartt

"Remember, you always have options." - Consuelo Valverde

Job Search Quotes of the Week

 “Getting fired is not shameful. It just means you need to find a better fit.”

― John Tarnoff

 "I have never felt like giving up.  Never.  Not one minute." - Hama Alzouma

 

Career Management Quotes of the Week

 "There is only one thing stopping you from doing anything - a decision!" - Carrie Greene

“Understand that success is not an accident, but a planned event.”
― Abhishek Ratna

Job Search Quotes of the Week

 "Don't try to go it alone, and pretend everything is okay, or be too scared to ask for help." - Patrick Cook-Deegan

"In order to realize the worth of the anchor, we need to feel the stress of the storm." - Corrie ten Boom

Career Management Quotes of the Week

“In the present day corporate world, it is utmost important to build a personal brand for yourself and anyone who knows the basics of brand-building would know that it is impossible without proper self promotion!” ― Abhishek Ratna

“Make excellent mistakes.  

Too many people spend their time avoiding mistakes. They're so concerned about being wrong, about messing up, that they never try anything -- which means they never do anything. Their focus is avoiding failure. But that's actually a crummy way to achieve success. The most successful people spectacular mistakes -- huge, honking screwups! why? They're trying to do something big, but each time they make a mistake, they get a little better and move a little closer to excellence.
Making mistakes seems risky. It is/ But it's more risky not to.

I'm not talking about random, stupid, thoughtless blunders, though. I'm talking about good mistakes.
Mistakes come from having high aspirations, from trying to do something nobody else has done.”
― Daniel H. Pink

Job Search Quotes of the Week

 "Struggle is not a barricade to success, but a bridge." - Randy Gage "Richard Fenton & Andrea Waltz's Dose of NOtivation http://www.goforno.com."

"How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives." - Judy Blume

Career Management Quotes of the Week

 “People who wonder if the glass is half empty or full miss the point. The glass is refillable.” – Unknown

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”― Abraham Lincoln

Job Search Quotes of the Week

"There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up to soon." - Jonas Salk


"The key to life is resilience... We will always be knocked down.  It's the getting up that counts." - Dominique Browning

Career Management Quotes of the Week

"A good example has twice the value of good advice." - Albert Schweitzer


“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

Job Search Quotes of the Week

"Focus on the positive and find success. Success is getting over failures again and again without losing enthusiasm." - Unknown

"Do not stop when you are tired.  Stop when you are done." - Unknown 

Career Management Quotes of the Week

“Don’t put a limit on what can be accomplished.” –Christopher Reeve


“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Job Search Quotes of the Week

Today, I am using both a quote and very short post in my "quotes of the week" regarding job search.  I think you will find both useful:

I was REJECTED for an internal position I applied for even though I was the top candidate. I later learned the person hired was a friend of my boss. I got tired of the office politics and started applying to other companies, and within 3 months I got a much better job. My old boss asked me to come back for the same promotion. I told him "thanks but no thanks."

Lessons learned:
1. You can be the best candidate and still not get selected.
2. If you didn't get the job, it was never meant for you.
3. You weren't rejected, you were redirected.
4. "Your value does not decrease based upon someone's inability to see your worth."
5. Believe in yourself and keep trying, the right door will open for you.

Brigette Hyacinth, Author of Leading the Workforce of the Future | Keynote Speaker

"We all have our flaws and weaknesses, but the key is to not let those weaknesses govern us or our action." - Mary Juetten

Career Management Quotes of the Week

"The mold of your life is in your hands to break." - J.R.R. Tolkien


"It takes the really challenging situations to reveal some of the amazing things that would otherwise have gone unnoticed." - Peter Finter

Job Search Quotes of the Week

People tend to say things like, I’ll die if (they reject me/I don’t get this deal, he/she says no to me, etc.) But you won’t. People don’t die from these things. In fact, the opposite is true—we don’t die, we get stronger when these things happen."

- Marisa Peer "Richard Fenton & Andrea Waltz's Dose of NOtivation http://www.goforno.com."

"You will fail at some point in your life. Accept it. You will lose.  You will embarrass yourself. You will suck at something. There is no doubt about it. That’s probably not a traditional message for a graduation ceremony.  But, hey, I’m telling you—embrace it. Because it’s inevitable. Every graduate here today has the training and the talent to succeed. But do you have guts to fail?" 

- Denzel Washignton, Penn Commencement Speech "Richard Fenton & Andrea Waltz's Dose of NOtivation http://www.goforno.com."

Career Management Quotes of the Week

“Quality is much better than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.” —Steve Jobs


"If you love your work, you’ll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you – like a fever." —Sam Walton

Job Search Quotes of the Week

“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.”– Leroy Satchel Paige


“It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed.” – Doe Zantamata

Career Management Quotes of the Week

"The expert in anything was once a beginner." - Unknown

"Never be upset that it didn't work out. Be glad that you learned something to make you better for the next time." - Unknown

Positive Quote of the Week

"I can choose to feel good.  I can choose love over hate, doing over worry.  Every moment gives us the choice to start afresh - there is always a choice!" - Unknown

Job Search Quotes of the Week

"Someday you will look back and know exactly why this moment had to happen." - Unknown

"You cannot control everything that happens to you; you can only control the way your respond to what happens.  In your response is your power." - Brian Tracy

Career Management Quotes of the Week

"Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday!" - Steve Jobs

"If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems." - Frank Wilczek

Positive Quotes of the Week

“Every goal first started as something in our mind. You have it all within you!” ― Deborah Day, BE HAPPY NOW!

Job Search Quotes of the Week

"When we believe in the obstacle more than in the goal, which will inevitably triumph?"
- Ryan Holiday

 "Above all, don't fear difficult moments.  The best comes from them." - Rita Levi-Montalcini

Career Management Quotes of the Week

“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.” — Malcolm Gladwell

“If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.” — Francis Bacon

Positive Quote of the Week

“Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.” — Oprah Winfrey

Job Search Quotes of the Week

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." — Bruce Lee

“In the beginning was the action.” — Goethe

Career Management Quotes of the Week

"Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible." — Neal Donald Walsch

“When you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind. You should do it completely, like a good bonfire. You should not be a smoky fire. You should burn yourself completely.”  — Shunryu Suzuki

Positive Quote of the Week

“Distance yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease your ambition. Create space for positive people to come into your life. Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.”
― Roy Bennett

Job Search Quotes of the Week

"If you spend too much time thinking about thing, you'll never get it done." - Bruce Lee


"It always seems impossible until it is done." - Nelson Mandela

Career Management Quotes of the Week

"Have no fear of perfection -- you'll never reach it." - Salvador Dali

“You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.” - Tony Robbins

Positive Quote of the Week

“I will always find a way and a way will always find me.”
― Charles F. Glassman

Job Search Quotes of the Week

“Believing in negative thoughts is the single greatest obstruction to success.”
― Charles F. Glassman



“Finding the lesson behind every adversity will be the one important thing that helps get you through it.”
― Roy T. Bennett

Career Management Quotes of the Week

“Be the kind of person who dares to face life's challenges and overcome them rather than dodging them.”
― Roy T. Bennett



“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism”
― Norman Vincent Peale

Positive Quote of the Week

"Think positive thoughts, because thoughts are like the steering wheel that moves our life in a specific direction; positive thoughts - positive direction." - Unknown

Job Search Quotes of the Week

"You need to have the courage to ask now more than ever.
Ask for an introduction.

Ask for a conversation.
Ask for an interview.
Ask for the opportunity."

- Andrea Waltz

from Richard Fenton & Andrea Waltz's Dose of NOtivation http://www.goforno.com."

 “You may encounter defeats, but you must not be defeated.  In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, and how you can still come out of it.” – Maya Angelou

Career Management Quotes of the Week

"I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time.”
- Brene Brown -  from Richard Fenton & Andrea Waltz's Dose of NOtivation http://www.goforno.com."

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward." - Vernon Law

Positive Quote of the Week

“Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.” 
― Roy T. Bennet

Job Search Quotes of the Week

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity.” - Amelia Earhart  

"You have to imagine it possible before you can see something." - Rita Dove

Career Management Quotes of the Week

"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete." - Henry James

"We can push ourselves further, we always have more to give." - Simone Biles

Positive Quote of the Week

"I am too positive to be doubtful, too optimistic to be fearful, and too determined to be defeated." - Unknown  

Job Search Quotes of the Week

“If you were born with the weakness to fall, you were born with the strength to rise.” - Rapi Kaur

“I really think champions are defined not by their wins, but how they recover when they fall.” – Serena Williams

Career Management Quotes of the Week

“Avoiding danger in the long run is no safer than outright exposure.  The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” – Helen Keller 

“There are people out there who are struggling, and I’m struggling, and it’s okay to come to terms with that being okay, to realize that it’s going to be a bit of a journey.” - Chrissy Teigen

Positive Quote of the Week

"There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become." - Orison Swett Marden

Job Search Quotes of the Week

“If you don’t see a clear path for what you want, sometimes you have to make it yourself.” - Mindi Kaling

“The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.” – Clara Barton

Career Management Quotes of the Week

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.” – J.K. Rowling

"Challenge yourself; it is the only path that leads to growth." - Morgan Freeman

Job Search Quotes of the Week

“I really think champions are defined not by their wins, but how they recover when they fall.” – Serena Williams

“If you were born with the weakness to fall, you were born with the strength to rise.” - Rapi Kaur

Career Management Quotes of the Week

“We can push ourselves further, we always have more to give.” – Simone Biles 

“Avoiding danger in the long run is no safer than outright exposure.  The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” – Helen Keller

Job Search Quotes of the Week

“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” – Rosa Parks


Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. - Celeste Ng

Career Management Quotes of the Week

"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear." - Dr. Martin Luther King

“Accentuate the positive, not the negative.  It sounds so trite, but a lot of people will pick out something to complain about, rather than say “hey, that was great!”  It’s not hard to find great stuff if you just look.” – Betty White

Job Search Quotes of the Week

"Never allow a person to tell you "no" that doesn't have the power to say "yes." - Eleanor Roosevelt 

 “Some things are out of your control.  Stop focusing on them.  Focus your attention on the things you can control.” - Carrie Greene

Career Management Quotes of the Week

"The problem is not in making up the steps, but in deciding which ones to keep." - Mikhail Baryshnikov 



"One of the fastest ways to build solid working relationships is to become an expert listener." - Sara Ann Powers

Job Search Quotes of the Week

"We never lost faith — that’s the biggest thing." - Patrick Mahomes

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." - Dr. Martin Luther King

Career Management Quotes of the Week

"I think inspiration is always around; it's just a question of whether or not you are noticing it." - John Green



"Have knowledge of what you're talking about.  Read and be curious.  Always listening." - Andre Leon Talley

Job Search Quotes of the Week

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” - George Addair

"When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. When you look up, you go up."

Herschel Walker

Career Management Quotes of the Week

“When you try something new, approach it with a sense of optimism, curiosity, and a willingness to learn.” – Carrie Greene 

“Share your knowledge, it is a way to achieve immortality.” – Dalai Lama

Job Search Quotes of the Week

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” - Unknown

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."

Elon Musk

Career Management Quotes of the Week

"Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress."

Charles F. Kettering

"Don't agree to a deal that eliminates the chance to sleep on a decision or perform proper due diligence."

Cheryl Snapp Conner

Job Search Quotes of the Week

"Networking can be intimidating, but remember it doesn't come naturally to most people."

Arianna O'Dell

"At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can."

Frida Kahlo

Career Management Quotes of the Week

"Once you begin to question your own thought patterns, you can tap into a rich vein of knowledge, instinct and power."

Aytekin Tank

"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery."

H.G. Wells

Job Search Quotes of the Week

"The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?"

Dame Judi Dench

"I attribute my success to this: -- I never gave or took an excuse."Florence Nightingale

Career Management Quotes of the Week

"Mistakes should be seen as opportunities to grow."

John Hall

"There is immense value in being transparent."

JotForm founder Aytekin Tank