Career Quotes · Page 157

When you are bigger than your purpose you have a career. When your purpose is bigger than you, you have a calling.

— John C. Maxwell

I spent the first half of my career being accused of being gay when I hadn't had anything like a gay relationship.

— George Michael

I coached Derrick Thomas for the first three years of his career. He was a special player.

— Bill Cowher

The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career.

— Melissa Etheridge

I feel so happy and content with my career, and how everything's been going and all the things that are happening in…

— Amelia Dimoldenberg

I haven't had the most lucrative career. If I'm going to be completely honest, I'm a one-hit wonder.

— Steve Forbert

“I like people thinking I'm an asshole. Being an asshole is my life's vocation; I'm a goddamned asshole professional.”

— James Alan Gardner

Throughout a competitive career, you can certainly lose yourself trying to please the judges.

— Tessa Virtue

It's been my dream all my career to go and follow in my brother's footsteps. He won the Champions League and that…

— Victor Wanyama

One of the biggest things I learned was not to tell myself 'no' before someone else. As someone who's creative, I know…

— Natasha Rothwell

I feel like every actor charts a different course in their respective career in the industry. Everyone has an individual journey. So,…

— Vaani Kapoor

I am grateful for the great education at a public university that Germany gave me, and that - added to a little…

— Hasso Plattner

I had this fantasy vision of what a career as a musician was like. And then I grew up and actually got…

— Lari White

People say they start from the bottom. If you want to see someone who's started from the bottom, go and look at…

— Dillian Whyte

They come for you in the morning in a limousine; they take you to the studio; they stick a pretty girl in…

— Marcello Mastroianni

When I'm done fighting, I want to look to get some sort of driving career somewhere. My goal is to eventually get…

— Dominick Cruz

I flew everywhere for the first 10 years of my career, and I started to not like commercial transport. I just don't…

— KRS-One

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that…

— Anish Kapoor

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

— Mike Myers

Thank God I'm at that point in my career where I don't have to take stuff that I don't really want to…

— Jeff Foxworthy

Building my career hasn't been attached to my dad. It's been me figuring things out for myself.

— Anthony Evans

My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters…

— Tika Sumpter

I think of myself as rarity in the business, and one of the reasons is that I wrestled my entire career as…

— Ricky Steamboat

We are professionals and, if the boss chooses eleven players to enter the field, these are the ones who have to work.

— Diogo Jota

I like to make decisions based on things I'm interested in doing, not what seems like the next move in my quote-unquote…

— Neil Patrick Harris

At a certain point in one's career, you want to win, not just have a great season. You want to win a…

— Andrew Wiggins

I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It…

— J. C. Watts

My parents don't really understand my career. They don't really bring it up that much.

— Kumail Nanjiani

Throughout my professional basketball career, I have always voiced my patriotism for my native land.

— Vlade Divac

I grew up doing certain little things in the musical theatre realm, but I didn't really understand that you could... make a…

— Diana DeGarmo

This isn't just a job. This is a service profession. We uphold the law, babe." Ranger

— Janet Evanovich

Captaining Leicester is one of the greatest honours in my career so I feel very privileged.

— Kasper Schmeichel

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my…

— Aaliyah

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

— Philip Larkin

In terms of my career as a whole, it's been slow and steady wins the race. We've had people slowly but surely…

— Robby Hoffman

Doing something because it's quote-unquote a good career move doesn't really appeal to me.

— Seth Green

“When you're sixteen a body like this is free; when you're forty it's a full-time occupation.”

— junot diaz

I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

— Robert Jarvik

I'm a natural welterweight and I've been a welterweight my whole career.

— Leon Edwards

Unfortunately, my football career wasn't very long. The reason I finished playing was because I fractured both ankles in a matter of…

— Bradley Walsh