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32 Motivational Quotes for Jobseekers

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Are you left deflated, disheartened and generally in a hump because of your job search? In the current economic climate it's tough to find a job - or indeed a new job, and it's tougher still to keep your enthusiasm and motivaion up when you're so often knocked back. Here we've complied our favourite 32 motivational quotes (they were so motivating we couldn't stop at 30) We hope you find them as motivating as we did.





1. "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." - Thomas A. Edison

2. "Never give up on a dream because of the time it will take to get there. The time will pass anyway." – Unknown Author

3. “It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.” - Carlton Fisk

4. “You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.” - Henry Ford


5. "Those that reach the top are the ones who are not content with doing only what is required of them.” - Og Mandino

6. "Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." – John Wayne

7. "In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby

8. “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.” – Steve Jobs

9. “The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth.” – Unknown Author

10. "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."  – Robert Frost

11. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray

12. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard

13. "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." – Wayne Gretzky

14. "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." – Michael Jordan

15. "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." – Tony Robbins

16. "You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." – Christopher Columbus

17. "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." – Maya Angelou

18. "Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right." – Henry Ford

19. "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." – Mark Twain

20. "Inspiration exists, but it must find you working." – Pablo Picasso

21. "It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." – Abraham Lincoln

22. "You can't use up creativity.  The more you use, the more you have." – Maya Angelou

23. "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." – Frank Zappa

24. "It is never too late to be what you might have been". – George Eliot

25. "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." – Albert Einstein

26. "When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us." – Helen Keller

27. "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

28. "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." – Henry Ford

29. “Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” – Thomas Jefferson

30. “People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.” – Andrew Carnegie

31. “Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

32. “Never tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” – Author Unknown






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