50+ Inspirational Career Change Quotes
Quotes to motivate you to change careers
These quotes can help remind you of the benefits of making a change:
- "Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."—Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."—Liz Smith
- "Opportunities don't happen, you create them."—Chris Grosser
- "If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try."—Seth Godin
- "Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe you can achieve."—Mary Kay Ash
- "Getting fired is nature's way of telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place."—Hal Lancaster
- "Your career is like a garden. It can hold an assortment of life's energy that yields a bounty for you. You do not need to grow just one thing in your garden. You do not need to do just one thing in your career."—Jennifer Ritchie Payette
- "In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks."—Warren Buffett
- "Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."—Gloria Steinem
- "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."—Andre Gide
Quotes to build confidence in your abilities
These quotes can help remind you of the positives of making a career change and help you build confidence:
- "The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers."—M. Scott Peck
- "The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward."—Amelia Earhart
- "It is never too late to be what you might have been."—George Eliot
- "A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm."—Charles Schwab
- "You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over."—Sir Richard Branson
- "The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."—Chinese Proverb
- "So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."—Christopher Reeve
- "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."—John Wooden
- "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."—Harriet Tubman
- "The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can."—Neil Gaiman
Quotes with advice for a career change
These quotes can give you the advice to help you make a career change:
- "No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice."—Rob Liano
- "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."—Nelson Mandela
- "The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it."—Debbi Fields
- "Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."—Francis of Assisi
- "There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."—Elbert Hubbard
- "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."—Mark Twain
- "You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing, but what you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself."—Alan Alda
- "Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."—Michael Jordan
- "Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you."—Tony Heisch
- "Would you do your job and not be paid for it? I would do this job and take on a second job just to make ends meet if nobody paid me. That's how you know you are doing the right thing."—Oprah

