Find Your Spark 50+ Powerful Job Search Quotes

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Rejection is merely a redirection; a course correction to your destiny.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy; I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Don't wait for the perfect moment, take the moment and make it perfect.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…unless you fail to make the turn.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

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

If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl. But by all means, keep moving.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.

It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.

Getting fired is nature's way of telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks.

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance and resistance to keep going and keep trying.

Do not grieve over what has passed unless it makes you work harder for what is about to come.

And that there is not for man except that [good] for which he strives.

God does not burden a soul beyond that it can bear.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Dedicate time each day to your job search without getting discouraged. Stay consistent and trust the process.

Whoever strives to be patient, Allah will make him patient. Nobody can be given a blessing better and greater than patience.

The real patience is at the first stroke of a calamity.

No one is given a gift better and more comprehensive than patience.

You don't need a new day to start over, you only need a new mindset.

The future depends on what you do today.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

The question isn't who is going to let me. It's who is going to stop me.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to meet it.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Build your own dreams or someone will hire you to build theirs.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Every cover letter you write, every networking event you attend, and every interview you prepare for matters. Your efforts are paving the way for success.

Do not put off today's work for tomorrow.

May God bless the man who says less and does more.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from the shore.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

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.

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspirations and expectation.

Take your job seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

Preparation is the foundation of success. Whether it's tailoring your resume, practicing interview questions, or researching companies, preparation puts you ahead of the competition.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.

No one eats better food than that which he eats out of the work of his hand.

And do not wish for that by which Allah has made some of you exceed others. For men is a share of what they have earned, and for women is a share of what they have earned. And ask Allah of his bounty. Indeed, Allah is ever, of all things, Knowing.

Nobody has ever eaten a better meal than that which one has earned by working with one's own hands. The Prophet of God, David, used to eat from the earnings of his manual labor.

The upper hand is better than the lower hand, the upper hand being the one that gives and the lower hand being the one that receives.

It is better for any of you to carry a load of firewood on his own back than to beg from someone else.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

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.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

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.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

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. 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.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.

There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you.

You can quit your job, but you can't quit your calling.

Work takes on new meaning when you feel you are pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it's just a job, and life is too short for that.

The best of people are those that bring most benefit to the rest of mankind.