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As one would expect, the Pope’s schedule is quite disciplined—he wakes up at four o’clock each morning and runs on the treadmill for an hour. I’m totally kidding. Nobody’s knees have time for that.
— Jared Brock, A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life
Discipline has enemies, and one of them is you.
— David Powning, The Ground Will Catch You
Too often, we give God only the tired remnants of our time. If Jesus Christ had given us only the remnant of His time, we would all be on our way to that darkness that knows no morning. Christ gave us not the tattered leftovers of His time; He gave us all the time He had. But some of us give Him only the leftovers of our money and of our talents and never give our time fully to the Lord Jesus Christ who gave us all. Because He gave us all, we have what we have; and He calls us "as He is, so are we in this world." (1 John 4:17)
— A.W. Tozer, The Crucified Life: How To Live Out A Deeper Christian Experience
You live recklessly when you do not take God's law seriously or respond to the gospel properly. Reckless living can look like laziness and apathy. When you simply aren't motivated and tell yourself that God has forgiven you in Jesus, so you're not going to fight temptation and sin - that is reckless living, and it's far more dangerous than you realize.
— Joe Thorn, Note to Self: The Discipline of Preaching to Yourself
For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.
— Philip Roth, Exit Ghost
As she put it, she knew of nothing so ravishing as having a child whom she could whip whenever she was in a bad mood.("The Queen Fantasque")
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture
Daily discipline is the door to full freedom, and the discipline to count to one thousand gave way to the freedom of wonder and I can't imagine not staying awake to God in the moment, the joy in the now.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature. Therefore is nature glorious with form, color, and motion, that every globe in the remotest heaven; every chemical change from the rudest crystal up to the laws of life; every change of vegetation from the first principle of growth in the eye of a leaf, to the tropical forest and antediluvian coal-mine; every animal function from the sponge up to Hercules, shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong, and echo the Ten Commandments.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
So, what does it take to live a more excellent life? It takes a new way of thinking, speaking and acting. It takes a change in habits, and a better understanding of who you are and what you do each day. It takes a foolproof formula you can apply to every minute of your day, for the most excellent outcome every time.
— J. Loren Norris
The Shah "had traveled to Europe and had been fascinated by the march of progress he observed there. But, once back in Terhan, this fascination had not been translated into sustained Persian modernization, but rather dissipated in the Shah's intense but short-lived passion for the latest novelties. "He is continually taking up and pushing some new scheme or invention which, when the caprice has been gratified, is neglected or allowed to expire".
— Charles Emmerson, 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses
— Brian Tracy, No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline
Somedays you're the cue ball, somedays you are the eight ball
— Pablo
Beginning of a great day begins a night before.
— Sukant Ratnakar
A credit card allows you transcend time. For it allows you to put off until tomorrow what you bought today, while you are still paying what you bought yesterday.
— Robert Morrissette
But what about the apparent absurdity of the idea of dignity, freedom, and reason, sustained by extreme military discipline, including of the practice of discarding weak children? This “absurdity” is simply the price of freedom—freedom is not free, as they put it in the film [300]. Freedom is not something given, it is regained through a hard struggle in which one should be ready to risk everything. Spartan ruthless military discipline is not simply the opposite of Athenian “liberal democracy,” it is its inherent condition, it lays the foundation for it: the free subject of Reason can only emerge through ruthless self-discipline. True freedom is not a freedom of choice made from a safe distance, like choosing between a strawberry cake and a chocolate cake; true freedom overlaps with necessity, one makes a truly free choice when one’s choice puts at stake one’s very existence—one does it because one simply “cannot do otherwise.” When one’s country is under foreign occupation and one is called by a resistance leader to join the fight against the occupiers, the reason given is not “you are free to choose,” but: “Can’t you see that this is the only thing you can do if you want to retain your dignity?
— Slavoj Žižek, In Defense of Lost Causes
A credit card allows you transcend time. For it allows you to put off until tomorrow what you bought today, while you are still paying off what you bought yesterday.
— Robert Morrissette
His father, that austere, unfeeling and untutored man, had insisted his sons polish their boots every evening. Flett has learned to be grateful for this early discipline. It kept him breathing as a boy, provided a pulse, gave order to vast incomprehension. Later he found other ways.
— Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
Underneath his sweetness and gentleness was the heat of a volcano. [Michael Faraday] was a man of excitable and fiery nature; but through high self-discipline he had converted the fire into a central glow and motive power of life, instead of permitting it to waste itself in useless passion.
— John Tyndall, Faraday as a Discoverer
It's easy to be disciplined when you have no freedoms.
— Dick Couch, Sua Sponte: The Forging of a Modern American Ranger
If leadership is the spinal cord of success then discipline is its lumbar vertebrae.
— Noel DeJesus, 44 Days of Leadership
How many of us even know what our default state of being is? Check yours at random times; reset it to positive, grateful, disciplined or faithful. Don’t ever let it idle on negative, greedy, lax or doubtful.
— Toni Sorenson
To the extent that we believe we can skip steps, avoid the process, magically gain power through political connections or easy formulas, or depend on our natural talents, we move against this grain and reverse our natural powers. We become slaves to time – as it passes, we grow weaker, less capable, trapped in some dead end career. We become captive to the opinions and fears of others.” (9) “This intense connection and desires allows them to withstand the pain of the process – the self-doubts, the tedious hours of practice and study, the inevitable setbacks, the endless barbs from the envious. They develop a resiliency and confidence that others lack.
— Robert Greene, Mastery
As you grow in true spiritual power and understanding you will actually find that many outer rules and regulations will become unnecessary; but this will be because you have really risen above them; never, never, because you have fallen below them. This point in your development, where your understanding of Truth enables you to dispense with certain outer props and regulations, is the Spiritual Coming of Age. When you really are no longer spiritually a minor, you will cease to need some of the outer observances that formerly seemed indispensable; but your resulting life will be purer, truer, freer, and less selfish than it was before; and that is the test.
— Emmet Fox, The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life
Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.
— Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences
Freedom like charity, begins at home. No man is worthy to fight in the cause of freedom unless he has conquered his internal masters. He must learn control and discipline over the disastrous passions that would lead him to folly and ruin. He must conquer inordinate vanity and anger, self-deception, fear, and inhibition.
— Jack Whiteside Parsons, Rebels and Devils: The Psychology of Liberation
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
— Tertullian
The two seem, at first glance, to be opposed, but when you have advanced a little in both, you find that concentration learned in Yoga is of immense use in attaining the mental powers necessary in Magick; on the other hand, the discipline of Magick is of the greatest service in Yoga.
— Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears
The assistant commander at any post is supposed to be a ruthless son of a bitch.
— Tom Clancy, The Cardinal of the Kremlin
We have not advanced very far in our spiritual lives if we have not encountered the basic paradox of freedom, to the effect that we are most free when we are bound. But not just any way of being bound will suffice; what matters is the character of our binding. The one who would like to be an athlete, but who is unwilling to discipline his body by regular exercise and by abstinence, is not free to excel on the field or the track. His failure to train rigorously and to live abstemiously denies him the freedom to go over the bar at the desired height, or to run with the desired speed and endurance. With one concerted voice the giants of the devotional life apply the same principle to the whole of life with the dictum: Discipline is the price of freedom.
— Elton Trueblood, The New Man for Our Time
Not every affection which seems good is to be immediately followed. Neither is every opposite affection to be immediately avoided. Sometimes it is expedient to use restraint even in good desires and wishes, lest through importunity you fall into distraction of mind, lest through want of discipline you become a stumbling block to others.
— Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
Without true celebration discipline is obnoxious.
— Adi Da Samraj, The Eating Gorilla Comes in Peace: The Transcendental Principle of Life Applied to Diet and the Regenerative Discipline of True Health
I work with a great deal of discipline, although I usually take on more than I can handle and often have to extend due dates. I have always been appalled by bohemianism because of its laziness, disorder, and moral weakness. I understand that this way of living is a response to the fact of human frailty, but it leans too far in one direction. Being a little more buttoned up doesn’t mean that you’ll get so brittle that you’ll break. Nor does it mean that you don’t understand tragedy, loss, and, most of all, human limitation.I am more than well aware of those things and I feel very strongly, but on the other hand I like to run ten miles and return to a spotless well-ordered room, and I like my shirts heavily starched. When I used to go on a long run on Sunday morning when I lived on the Upper West Side, I would pass thousands and thousands of people in restaurants eating . . . (I won’t say this word, because I hate it so much, but it rhymes with hunch, and it’s a disgusting meal that is supposed to be both breakfast and lunch). There they were—having slept for five hours while I was doing calisthenics and running—unshaven (the women too), bleary eyed, surrounded by newspapers scattered as if in a hamster cage, smoking noxious French cigarettes, and drinking Bloody Marys while they ate huge quantities of fat. They looked to me like a movie version of South American bandits. I would never want to be like that. I prefer to live like a British soldier.
— Mark Helprin
Patton would have said a warmer goodbye to his horse, The author writes on Eisenhower's cold dismissal of his wartime lover.
— Jean Edward Smith, Eisenhower in War and Peace
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
— John C. Maxwell, The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential
Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.
— John C. Maxwell, The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential
Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.
— Daniel J. Siegel, The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive
If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.
— John C. Maxwell, The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential
This is the secret to mastering any discipline: as you conquer one, you'll find it easier to tackle another.
— Jeff Goins
There is something in human pride that can stand big troubles, but we need the supernatural grace and power of God to stand by us in the little things. The tiniest detail in which we obey has all the omnipotent power of the grace of God behind it. When we do our duty, not for duty’s sake, but because we believe that God is engineering our circumstances in that way, then at the very point of our obedience the whole superb grace of God is ours.
— Oswald Chambers, Our Brilliant Heritage
Under a bad leadership Serbs are capable of committing the most terrible atrocities; under good leaders we can do great deeds. It's like a field - if it's not cared for, the weeds will take over. But if you tend it, water and feed the seeds, you will read a bountiful harvest. Serbs are lazy, we lack discipline and have no capacity for self-criticism." With Their Backs to the World
— Åsne Seierstad
To discipline your body, you need a disciplined mind!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative.
— James K.A. Smith, Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
Among men, it seems, historically at any rate, the processes of coordination and disintegration follow each other with great regularity, and the index of the coordination is the measure of the disintegration which follows. There is no mob like a group of well-drilled soldiers when they have thrown off their discipline. And there is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him. There is no hater like one who has greatly loved.
— John Steinbeck
There are many whose tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
— PRENTICE
To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.
— Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions and Eternity
Children cannot develop a sense of inner discipline if all of the control comes from the outside.
— Babara Coloroso
Discipline is a given
—  the choice is whether it is applied internally or externally.
A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night
— Marilyn Monroe
I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.
— Maya Angelou
Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck. 
— Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed
What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
— Barbara Sher, I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It
Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" Always choose what goes toward what you want.
— Barbara Sher, I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It
In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there’s no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.
— Les Claypool
Every time you worry that you could get trapped in some kind of work you don't care about, you're dealing with the problem of meaningfulness. I guarantee that in the back of your mind is the thought that somehow you have to make a contribution to something, be acknowledged, do something that matters--or you're just fooling around.
— Barbara Sher, I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four
When one door closes another opens but all too often there is a long hallway in between. 
— Rick Jarow, The Ultimate Anti-Career Guide: The Inner Path to Finding Your Work in the World
Out of the current confusion of ideals and and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity.
— Matthew B. Crawford
what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an ‘appointment’) which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.
— James Gould Cozzens, The Just and the Unjust
Action is the spark that ignites potential.
— John Long, Career Judo - The Martial Art for the Mindful Career
For success in corporate world, it is essential to identify and seek what you want.
— Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
Expertise in a subfield was the key to a successful career as an engineer, and expertise was becoming a necessity for the mathematicians and computers as well.
— Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
His name was Ed. His nickname was Scrambled Ed. On leaving school he had taken a year out to decide what he wanted to study at University. The year passed and he still hadn't decided but went to University anyway. 'Academic' is defined as 'of, or relating to, institutionalized education and scholarship'. The same word, at the same time, also means 'having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed, unengaging or theoretical'. The latter definition seemed the most appropriate for Ed's university career which was a mash up of drinking, diving, surfing, kayaking and having his heart-broken. All washed down with a few pints. After three years of that he was awarded a second class joint honours degree which he put in the recycling bin and went in search of something that would make him feel better.
— Matt Padwick, Transpose - a self-styled revolution
Make a life while making a living.
— Frank Sonnenberg, Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others
A nagging focus on time management makes us want to increase the speed of our lives. Maintaining a focus on priority management helps us recognize the need to slow down. When our use of time is built around well-defined priorities, life is less a question of how much we can get done and more a question of whether something is worth doing at all.
— Joe Jordan, Sharpen Your Life: 52 Strategic Moments to Create a Lifetime of Success
I’d tell men and women in their midtwenties not to settle for a job or a profession or even a career. Seek a calling. Even if you don’t know what that means, seek it. If you’re following your calling, the fatigue will be easier to bear, the disappointments will be fuel, the highs will be like nothing you’ve ever felt.
— Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
It is a common enough mid-career urge: having taken care of life's immediate needs, some of us yearn to chase villains, right wrongs, fight on the side of the angels.
— Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Take it from me, an authority on expertise: You can't trust experts.
— Jeff Schmidt, Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System That Shapes Their Lives
When employers designate certain jobs "professional" and insist that employees have professional training – not just the technical skills that seem sufficient to do the work – they must have more in mind than efficiency. Hierarchical organizations need professionals, because through professionals those at the top control the political content of what is produced, and because professionals contribute to the bosses' control of the workforce itself.
— Jeff Schmidt, Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System That Shapes Their Lives
What exactly are you looking for in a job? Like, what’s your best-case scenario for a new career?”“I haven’t really thought that far. The best-case scenario is just that I look back on this entire era of my life and laugh and say, ‘What a weird time that was. I can’t believe I did that.
— Drew Nellins Smith, Arcade
They want you to be the solution. Whoever is waiting in there for you—interviewer, examiner, casting agent—is hoping you are the answer to their search. Our fear or self-doubt can persuade us that those waiting in the room want us to fail, but that means you carry that closed or victim energy in. People get into the negative habit of preempting the worst-case scenario as a misplaced way of protecting themselves. Try to walk in instead with an ‘I can be the solution to your problem’ attitude. Not arrogant, just open. The rest is out of your hands, but the positivity in itself is empowering.
— Kate White, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know
Everyone you meet should go into a people file (organized by categories) that you keep on your computer or phone. Include a few details about the person. Selected names should be placed on your “big-mouth” e-mail list. It should consist of former bosses, former coworkers whom you want to stay in touch with, anyone who has mentored you, people you’ve met who seem interested in your career. People on your big-mouth list then get sent an e-mail notification when you have important career news—for instance, you’ve switched jobs, been promoted, or started your own business.
— Kate White, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know
When someone does a professional favor for you, send a handwritten note. You must send a written note to a mentor or sponsor when she helps you. Perhaps even a gift. And here’s a great tip from Archambeau: When you take someone’s advice, let her know it and how it worked out. So few people ever do that.
— Kate White, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know
There are four stages to a person’s career:In Stage 1 you are enthusiastic about your work, but inexperienced (start of your career).In Stage 2 you are both enthusiastic about your work and have gained experience (top of your career).In Stage 3 you’re tired of your work, but you are also still competent/experienced (maintenance stage).In Stage 4 you are sick of your work, and because you haven’t been motivated to keep up with your profession, you are now, once again, inexperienced relative to the state-of-the-art in your field (end of career).
— Clifford Cohen
If you’ve just had a brief conversation at an event, ask, “Is it all right if I drop you a note?” You can follow up with a question in writing. Also, periodically send your potential mentor or sponsor information that she will find insightful. When you have an accomplishment under your belt, let her know about it.
— Kate White, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know
During your job search, you must also be networking as much as possible, attending events, talks, lectures, and conferences where you’ll meet people you can add to your contact list.
— Kate White, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know
You can’t get caught up in worrying about whether everyone you work with likes you. Ultimately you want the respect of your coworkers, but you don’t need them to be your buddies.
— Kate White, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know
If you haven’t found your calling yet, the best thing to do is get your butt off your chair, fill your life with a wide array of unusual experiences, and allow yourself to bump into what will exhilarate you.
— Kate White, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know
Rather than relying on a notebook, you should work with two spreadsheets on your computer; you use one to list all the companies you’re aware of in the field or fields you’re interested in and the other to list every single contact you have.
— Kate White, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know
If you’ve already worked in some capacity or done any internships, your contacts are everybody you’ve met in your work plus all your personal contacts. If you haven’t been employed yet, you still have plenty of contacts. “Take out your college yearbook,” says Wein. “Who sat next to you in class? Who do you know that’s gone into the field you’re interested in? You don’t have to know them well to put them on the list.” You’d also include any contacts your parents have, friends of your parents, people you met on family vacations, even kids you knew in summer camp.
— Kate White, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know
Every day you should also be checking job boards to track positions as they open up. In addition to the job boards on company websites, use public job boards such as Monster, Indeed, LinkedIn, and any specialty sites. There’s also your alumni website, etc.
— Kate White, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know
Who knows, you may be that close. You could be uncovering a blind spot or two away to take your career to the next height...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Start with a two-line summary of your background, and then say what you’re looking for, being as specific as possible. It could go something like this: “I just graduated with a degree in economics, and I worked at a hospital for my past two summers. I’d love a job at a health-related website. I know you once worked for WebMD, and I’d really welcome a personal introduction.
— Kate White, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know
Do not cross your legs, she advises. Keeping both feet on the ground signals that you, well, have both feet on the ground. … If you feel the urge to move out of nervousness, do some toe crunches since the interviewer won’t notice those.
— Kate White, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know
Good questions are those that show that you not only want the job, you are prepared to knock the ball out of the park once you have it. So ask, “What would a successful year in the job look like?” or “What did you most value in the person who left?” You’ve done a Google search of the field and the company, of course, and one of your questions could be about emerging trends. Interviewers love it when questions relate to them and their accomplishments (“I’ve heard you made some exciting changes recently. What has the outcome been?”).
— Kate White, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know
Come right out and say you want it: “It’s been great hearing you talk about the position. I’d love to work here, and I think I could do a terrific job for you.
— Kate White, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know
Smile, look invested, and when you hand in certain projects, say you enjoyed working on them.
— Kate White, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know
When your boss assigns you a project, take good notes and ask questions regarding anything you’re not sure about. … The key question to ask: “What are the results you’re looking for?” Be clear, too, about deadlines and who needs to be looped in on the project.
— Kate White, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know
Lawrence’s suggestion for a starter wardrobe: a black dress, a fitted black jacket, black pants, a black skirt, a camel-colored skirt, a white blouse, a trendy-looking cardigan in a color (red could be good, for instance), several cool, inexpensive blouses (from places such as H&M or Zara) that pick up or work with the color of the cardigan and will go with your pants and skirts. For shoes, go for black heels and a pair of colored ones (they will make one of your all-black outfits look totally fab). Then build from there.
— Kate White, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know
Once you’ve identified people who can be both mentors and sponsors, you need to make contact. Don’t hesitate to introduce yourself to a potential ally at an event or in the elevator and say you admire her work. If the person is spearheading a committee or drive, volunteer to be on it. You can also request an informational interview. You could say something such as “I’ve heard so much about your work [or latest venture] and would love to know more about it.
— Kate White, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know
If a job opens up that she could “sell” you for, tell her, “You’ve been such a valuable resource for me. I would really appreciate having your help on something. There’s a terrific position open at Company A, and I’m hoping you would be able to advocate on my behalf.” Don’t be shy about also asking a sponsor, “Do you know anyone I could talk to?
— Kate White, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know
When you create a résumé, for instance, it’s not about listing every single role and responsibility you’ve had. Instead it’s about highlighting accomplishments that all ladder up to your overall positioning, expressing a clear point of view. You’re taking control of the impressions you make by doing the work for them.
— Kate White, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know
You should also have a bio that plays up your brand—this will be used for any kind of press or speaking engagement. Make it jazzy and exciting, and don’t be afraid of language that really touts you.
— Kate White, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and our abilities were used in a way that served people.  We're compensated by grateful looks in other people's eyes, whatever material abundance supports us in performing joyfully and at high energy, and the magnificent feeling that we did our bit today to help save the world.
— Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
Make sure you work at a place which gives you opportunities to learn, travel, explore, interact with intellectuals and new work skills.
— Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
Google has made teaching more challenging because learners believe that Google is their answer. But the learners are only forced to classrooms because questions are with teachers. Will Bing become learners’ teacher by providing questions?
— Santosh Avvannavar, Get a Job WITHOUT an Interview - Google and Beyond: "We don't mind to lose a good applicant, but definitely not hire a bad applicant."
It was definitely a rare situation where a career had started and ended simultaneously on a very high note.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
I am slightly offended by the way busy working women my age are presented in film. I'm not, like, always barking orders into my hands-free phone device and telling people constantly, "I have no time for this!" I didn't completely forget how to be nice and feminine because I have a career.
— Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
In the corporate world, what is not showcased well simply doesn't exist for any practical purpose!
— Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
If you put your best foot forward and if you overcome your fears, you will surely be able to attain the heights of success
— Anamika Mishra, VoiceMates - A Novel
In regards to planning your career, you need to treat it (your career) just like a business.
— Auliq Ice
CENTER-OF-THE-UNIVERSE, that was me entering the workplace. And I woke up one day soon after that, struggling at the bottom of a vast ocean. But I needed that. Humbling experiences are part of growing - they help shape us and mold our character. Welcome to life.
— Yay Padua-Olmedo, Going Up?: Making Right Choices at Work
We all have dreams; things we want to achieve, to have or to own, to be or to see.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Treat your career like a bad boyfriend. Here's the thing. Your career won't take care of you. It won't call you back or introduce you to its parents. Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around. It will forget your birthday and wreck your car. Your career will blow you off if you call it too much. It's never going to leave its wife. Your career is fucking other people and everyone knows but you. Your career will never marry you.
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
I dropped my gardening tools, threw my bicycle over a hedge and went in search of fortunes laid beneath the hangman’s noose.
— Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
In my illustrious career as a university student, I turned in over 100 papers so that one day, in the end, I got 1 paper in return.
— J.R. Rim, Write like no one is reading 2
Get yourself into something that you don't have passion for and feel like an idiot always.
— Ameya Agrawal
Fortunately, our colleges and universities are fully cognizant of the problems I have been delineating and take concerted action to address them. Curricula are designed to give coherence to the educational experience and to challenge students to develop a strong degree of moral awareness. Professors, deeply involved with the enterprise of undergraduate instruction, are committed to their students' intellectual growth and insist on maintaining the highest standards of academic rigor. Career services keep themselves informed about the broad range of postgraduate options and make a point of steering students away from conventional choices. A policy of noncooperation with U.S. News has taken hold, depriving the magazine of the data requisite to calculate its rankings. Rather than squandering money on luxurious amenities and exorbitant administrative salaries, schools have rededicated themselves to their core missions of teaching and the liberal arts. I'm kidding, of course.
— William Deresiewicz, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Maybe I’ll never be able to figure out what I’m passionate about. But when I choose something, it has to be something that when I wake up it’s the first thing I think about, and it’s also the last thing I think about before I go to sleep. I read about other people and how much they love their jobs—like, how they just want to do it all the time and it doesn’t feel like work because they love it so much. I want that to happen to me.
— Maria Malonzo, Hello, Privet! #1 : Hello/Привет
The most decisive and certainly most delicious option for an aggrieved worker in a narcissist’s office is simply quitting. Slamming your resignation letter on the boss’s desk and striding out to take a better job somewhere else is satisfying and in both its finality and its totality. Instantly the feared figure is stripped of all power, reduced to a person of utter inconsequence in your life. Not only does this spell immediate freedom for the exiting employee, it can also contribute to the long-term decline of the boss.
— Jeffrey Kluger, The Narcissist Next Door: Understanding the Monster in Your Family, in Your Office, in Your Bed--in Your World
Public speaking skills are an essential key to achieving career advancement and success.
— Robert Moment, How to Overcome the Fear of Public Speaking With Easy to Use Ideas, Tips and Strategies
Lovely as it would be to live off a trust fund and have nothing more taxing to think about than where your next hot stone massage was coming from, it's essential for all human beings to have a purpose. There's no honour in boasting “I don't work, dahling...” If you're not stretching yourself, discovering where your gifts lie, expressing your creativity, or enriching the lives of others, what are you for?
— Rosie Blythe
When an organization starts hemorrhaging talent, CEOs and boards of directors want to know why. If the boss gets blamed for the brain drain and is ultimately removed, it means relief for the employees still there and ex post facto vengeance for the former ones.
— Jeffrey Kluger, The Narcissist Next Door: Understanding the Monster in Your Family, in Your Office, in Your Bed--in Your World
Treat your career like a bad boyfriend. Your career wont take care of you. It won't call you back or introduce you to its parents. Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around.
— Amy Poehler
If I don't keep this job, then my only future career-options are working in Argos, or being a prostitute,' I say, w
— Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl
What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it.
— Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman
My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who you'll be.
— Maureen Corrigan
You are all so good and I wish I were better. Now get out of here because I want to be where you are.
— Amy Poehler
To put one's career before one's personal life is like putting death before life.
— Marty Rubin
I know my career is going badly because I'm being quoted correctly.
— Lee Marvin
Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.
— Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
Your LinkedIn profile should leave no room for doubt about the kind of job you’re looking for and why you’re the best person for that position.
— Melanie Pinola, LinkedIn In 30 Minutes: How to create a rock-solid LinkedIn profile and build connections that matter
Your LinkedIn profile must be consistent with how you portray yourself elsewhere. Not only should your official résumé match the experience you list on LinkedIn, but it also should be consistent with Twitter and public Facebook information.
— Melanie Pinola, LinkedIn In 30 Minutes: How to create a rock-solid LinkedIn profile and build connections that matter
Your LinkedIn profile must include keywords for specific skills that match your desired job.
— Melanie Pinola, LinkedIn In 30 Minutes: How to create a rock-solid LinkedIn profile and build connections that matter
Make sure your LinkedIn profile has a targeted headline. Not only should the headline clearly state your career focus, it’s also the most important place to add a keyword or two, because this influences how you appear in search results
— Melanie Pinola, LinkedIn In 30 Minutes: How to create a rock-solid LinkedIn profile and build connections that matter
Helping others fulfill their dreams seems like an easy way to keep from living your own.
— Cerella Sechrist, Gentle Persuasion
I slide to my knees and say, "Please let this be over." Then, I'm not ready for it to be over.
— Andre Agassi, Open
Never agree to a job interview in which the interviewer has seen you naked.
— Susan Mallery, Only His
His statement flew in the face of everything I knew. He thought of relationships as finite, like a pie that could only be cut into so many pieces. Take a piece away, and there was that much less for him. I knew, however, that relationships are more like muscles - the more you work them, the stronger they become.
— Keith Ferrazzi, Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
Just because you spent 4 years studying a subject doesn't mean you have to suffer the rest of your 40 years doing the same.
— Dhaval Gajera, Tomorrow Today
Our careers aren't paths so much as landscapes that are navigated.
— Keith Ferrazzi, Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
In the search for happiness, However, We r all equal; None of us is Happy - Not the Banker/Actors/Actresses/Politician/Housewife/Model/Doctor and so on.
— Avinash Advani
And uh, forget the money. Because, if you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your life wasting your time. You will be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is, in order to do things you don’t like doing, which is stupid. Better to have a short life that is full of things you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.
— Allan Watts
In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said "It is the trade entering his body.
— Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
Success is not defined by status, money, education, career or another person but rather by the level of peace that I have within myself.
— Liza Lugo
I think what's most interesting about me is the work that I do.
— Susie Orbach
Plunged up to the ears in work, good friend!" thought Oblomov as he watched him depart. "Yes, and blind and deaf and dumb to everything else in the world! Yet by going into society and, at the same time, busying yourself about your affairs you will yet win distinction and promotion. Such is what they call 'a career'! Yet of how little use is a man like that! His intellect, his will, his feelings--what do they avail him? So many luxuries is what they are--nothing more.Such an individual lives out his little span without achieving a single thing worth mentioning; and meanwhile he works in an office from morning till night--yes, from morning till night, poor wretch!
— Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-oriented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.
— Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?
— Dennis Prager, Think a Second Time
Be true to what naturally interests you - and be brave enough to turn an obsession into a profession.
— Shelly Branch, What Would Jackie Do?: An Inspired Guide to Distinctive Living
Those that care for their career, more than their relationship, can find themselves alone.
— Anthony Liccione
Desperation works in job search as well as it does in dating.
— Darrell Gurney, Never Apply for a Job Again!: Break the Rules, Cut the Line, Beat the Rest
If You find yourself in a hole
—  stop digging.
Some people make enough, some people don’t, and it has nothing to do with their paycheck.
— Janene Murphy
Passion towards Work! Yields Satisfaction in work
— Vijenda Kumar
Through career fumbles and life changes, she supported me. Through shattered dreams and hopes almost-realized, she supported me too.
— Shannon Celebi
Being instinctively lazy, I see no point in working longer hours just to get out of debt !
— L.G. Durand
Don't confuse having a career with having a life.
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
Getting to this point hasn't always been easy; it took me years to really learn to silence my mind. But as you move through your career and your life, you will have to learn that if you're not what you do, then what you do has no business keeping you entertained at night.
— Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music.
— Guy Kawasaki, Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions
You survived as a child because others helped to maintain your life. It continues to be true today, even when you think you are abandoned, rejected, neglected, and unloved: the tomatoes you eat sustain you, the crossing guard stops the traffic so you can get to the other side of the street, the dinner offered to you on clean white plates nourishes you, the paper on which these words are printed informs you. Noticed or ignored, this web of others protects and holds you and makes it possible for you to make a difference: to take what came to you as seed and pass it on as blossom, and what came as blossom and ripen it to fruit.
— Dawna Markova, Spot of Grace: Remarkable Stories of How You DO Make a Difference
Most of the people I know who are having trouble finding their life work are somewhat passive in style. They wait for something good to happen to them rather than make strong positive moves.
— Thomas   Moore
And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown’s most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career.
— Judith Thurman
I don't have any babies or ambition. I have it all!
— Nan Little
It's not only who you know but who knows you.
— Bianca Frazier
Organizing one's life to respond to a threat one felt powerless about as a child can be a source of enormous inspiration.
— Linda Austin
Be — don't try to become
— Osho
I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees her is better than she actually is. And I think it's bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Isi, I’m trying to say that you’ve been… no, you’re so, you’re–” He stopped."You are,” he said. His hand found hers, and he held her finger tightly, as though he did not dare to do any more than hold her one hand, and look at her, and breathe deeply.
— Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl
The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.
— May Sarton
I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, around ancient towers and i have been circling for a thousand years. And I still dont know if I am an eagle or a storm or a great song.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward all being in his transcendence does a true nearness to things flourish in him.
— Martin Heidegger, The Essence of Reasons
You can't do everything but you can do something!
— Jeff Dixon
Being is seeing in the human dimension.
— Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Only when you explore the ecstasy of simply being, where even to breathe is a distraction, can you call yourself complete.
— Sadghuru
If we do not know the character of being itself - I have never seen anyone suggest that we do know it - then there is an inevitable superficiality in any claim to an exhaustive description of anything that participates in being. And the assertion of the existence, or the nonexistence, of God is the ultimate exhaustive description.
— Marilynne Robinson
This aspect of animated nature, in which man is nothing, has something in it strange and sad....Here, in a fertile country, adorned with eternal verdure, we seek in vain the traces of the power of man; we seem to be transported into a world different from that which gave us birth.
— Alexander von Humboldt