Top 105 Motivational Job Search Quotes

There are 99 failures for every 100 success stories. Whoever you see standing tall today has overcome several life’s challenges such as rejections and failures.

“Every artist was first an amateur”, said Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American poet.

For example, prior to founding Alibaba, Jack Ma was unable to find work despite applying to nearly 30 companies.

Before launching his multibillion-dollar ecommerce company, the billionaire entrepreneur was rejected by every company he applied to after college.

According to Forbes, Jack Ma is one of the richest people in the world, with a net worth of over $35 billion. But keep in mind that he was once not only a job seeker, but he was also turned down by every company he applied to work for, including Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC).

“Failure is the key to success,” Alibaba’s founder once declared.

Rejections are part of life. According to Winston Churchill, “success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.”

Job hunting can be a difficult process that necessitates a strong desire to succeed as well as courage.

Your thoughts and what you feed your mind have a lot of influence, no matter where you are in your job search.

We’ve compiled a list of 105 inspirational quotes and encouraging messages to help you stay motivated and energized as you look for work:

“To know what you want is the first step in the journey of life.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.” –Earl Nightingale
“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” —Dalai Lama
“Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.” –Cynthia Korsey
“I can accept failure – everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” –Michael Jordan
“Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.” –Reed Markham
“People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.”–Pete Zafra
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” –Thomas Edison
“Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.” –Jawaharlal Nehru
“When you change the way you look at things; the things you look at will change.” –Wayne Dyer
“Failure can destroy you if you are weak, but if you are strong, you can destroy failure.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” –Thomas Edison
“If you are clear about what you want, the world responds with clarity” –Loretta Staples
“Take risks: If you win, you will be happy. If you lose, you will be wise.” – Unknown
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” – Stephen Hawking
“Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.” – Aldous Huxley
“Anything in life worth having is worth working for.” –Andrew Camegie
“If you are ambitious, success leads you to more success.” –Wael ElManzalawy
“You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.” –Anthony Robbins
“You can do many things, but you don’t know yourself.” –Wael ElManzalawy
“Nobody can make you inferior without your permission.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
“The successful person among the environment of failure is the real hero.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
“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
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” —Maya Angelou
“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.” – Ivan Turgenev
“Intelligent persons think while they are sleeping, but very stupid personsdon’t use their minds at all.” –Wael El-Manzalawy
“Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.” –William Arthur Ward
“If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl. But by all means, keep moving.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I am convinced that most people can achieve their dreams and beyond if they have the determination to keep trying.” – Howard Schultz
“Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.” – Pauline Kael,
“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.” – Barack Obama
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” ―Vince Lombardi
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot
“But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration—because it’s a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks.” —James Cameron
“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it.” – Jonathan Winters
“Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they never quit.” —J.W. Marriot
“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.” – Diana Ross
“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go if you really want to go.” – Langston Hughes
“A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.” —Arthur Golden
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” —Albert Einstein
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want something.”—Randy Pausch
“Winning is not everything—but making the effort to win is” ―Vince Lombardi
“Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspirations and expectation.” — Jack Nicklaus
“The right man is the one who seizes the moment.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” —Walt Disney
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” —Norman Vincent Peale
“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.” —Alexander Graham Bell
“Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” —Vince Lombardi
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”—Marilyn Monroe
“The harder I practice, the luckier I get.”—Gary Player
“Getting fired is nature’s way of telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.” —Hal Lancaster
“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem
“You’ll never please everyone, but you only have to please a few people to get an offer.” —Harvey MacKay
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Unknown
“Every designer was first an amateur.”—EffizoJobs
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” —Confucius
“I have always been fond of the West African proverb: “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.’” —Theodore Roosevelt
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt
“In great attempts it to glorious even to fail.” ―Vince Lombardi
“If you can accept losing, you can’t win”―Vince Lombardi
“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” —A.A. Milne (from Winnie the Pooh)
“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…unless you fail to make the turn.” —Helen Keller
“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” —H.G. Wells
“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” ―Abraham Lincoln
“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.” – Ray Bradbury
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Unknown
“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.” – Nelson Mandela
“Courage doesn’t always roar, sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” —Mary Anne Radmacher
“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. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” —Steve Jobs
“In any moment of decision, the best you 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.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“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.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.” —Booker T. Washington
“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%.” —Andrew Carnegie
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” —Thomas Jefferson
“The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.” –B.C. Forbes
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – Les Brown
“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.” – Ella Fitzgerald
“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” – Henry Ford,
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” —Nelson Mandela
“Don’t confuse having a career with having a life.” — Hillary Clinton
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” —Babe Ruth
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” – William Faulkner
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” —Milton Berle
“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles, and less than perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful.” —Mark Victor Hansen
“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.” —Lucille Ball
“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
“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.” – Henry David Thoreau
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” –Vince Lombardi
“There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” – Michael Phelps
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy
“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
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” –Margaret Thatcher
“You can do it if you believe you can.” –Napoleon Hill
“I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.” –Thomas Edison
“The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear.” –William Jennings Bryan
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying where there seemed to be no hope at all.” –Dale Carneige
“Build your character. It’s the foundation of your life.” –Wael ElManzalawy
“Nothing of great value in this life comes easily.” –Norman Vincent Peale
“”If you can dream it, you can do it.” — Walt Disney
“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” –Benjamin Disraeli

Nobody is immune to adversity, and sometimes all it takes is a few encouraging quotes like the ones above to keep going.

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