Irrespective of what you do, it can be too easy to get overwhelmed by the day-to-day assignments and lose sight of what makes you passionate about your work. We all need a little inspiration sometimes to remind ourselves of our career goals and what we need to do to get ourselves there. Let these 13 quotes inspire you to keep grinding always.
1. “Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that make things happen. It hard work that creates change.” — Shonda Rhimes, (Showrunner)
2. “The first step in achieving your goal is to take a moment to respect your goal. Know what it means to you to achieve it.” — Dwayne Johnson, (Actor)
3. “I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that when you have a breakthrough.” — Marrissa Mayer, (Yahoo CEO)
4. “To be, in a word, unborable…It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.” —David Foster Wallace, (Author)
5. “I’m always doing things I can’t do. That’s how I get to do them.” — Pablo Picasso (Painter)
6. “In every position that I’ve been in, there have been naysayers who don’t believe I’m qualified or who don’t believe I can do the work. And I feel a special responsibility to prove them wrong.” — Sonia Sotomayor (Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States)
7. “We cannot procrastinate, the world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.” — Eleanor Roosevelt (Former First Lady of the United States)
8. “By changing nothing, nothing changes.”—Tony Robbins (Author and Philanthropist)
9. “Rarely are opportunities presented to you in a perfect way. In a nice little box with a yellow bow on top. ‘Here, open it, it’s perfect. You’ll love it.’ Opportunities — the good ones — are messy, confusing and hard to recognize. They’re risky. They challenge you.” —Susan Wojcicki ( YouTube CEO)
10. “The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.” —Muhammad Ali, (Boxer)
11. “Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it all away from you.” — Mark Cuban (Entrepreneur)
12. “If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.” —Elon Musk, (CEO of SpaceX)
13. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” — Steve Jobs ( Apple co-founder)
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