31 Quotes to Motivate Your Job Search

31 Quotes to Motivate Your Job Search 31 Quotes to Motivate Your Job Search 7For good or ill, your thoughts are powerful motivators. Thinking upbeat positive thoughts can have an inspiring effect on your job search. Likewise, a steady drumbeat of negativity can drag you down. As a job seeker, take matters into your own hands with quotes to motivate your search and keep you powering forward. Weve rounded up some of the best words of motivation and inspiration for your job search, from thought leaders like CEOs, artists, business pioneers, historical figures, athletes, writers, and military leaders. Below, youll find 31 fantastic quotes- a months worth- that are pithy, funny, thoughtful, wry, and offer inspiration for your hunt for flexible work. Try a quote a day to keep your job search fired up and on track! Here are 31 quotes to motivate your job search: 1. If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. - H.G. Wells   2. 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 3. I am convinced that most people can achieve their dreams and beyond if they have the determination to keep trying. - Howard Schultz 4. “Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” - Thomas Edison 5. Courage doesnt always roar, sometimes its the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering I will try again tomorrow.' - Mary Anne Radmacher 6. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. - Babe Ruth 7. “A bend in the road is not the end of the road…unless you fail to make the turn.” - Helen Keller 8. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”  - Steve Jobs 9. It always seems impossible until its done. - Nelson Mandela 10. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”  - George Eliot 11. Promise me youll always remember: Youre braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. - A.A. Milne (from Winnie the Pooh) 12. “Fail often so you can succeed sooner.” - Tom Kelley 13. Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. - George S. Patton 14. It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.  - Muhammad Ali 15. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.  - Winston Churchill 16. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you dont give up. - Anne Lamott 17. Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid. - Albert Schweitzer 18. The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. - Dolly Parton 19. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”  - Arthur Ashe 20. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didnt do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.  - Mark Twain 21. “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” - Dalai Lama 22. Even if youre on the right track, youll get run over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers 23. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” - Confucius 24. “When things go wrong, dont go with them.” - Elvis Presley 25. When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that’s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn. - Harriet Beecher Stowe 26. A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up.” - David McGee 27. “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.”  - Wayne Gretzky 28. If opportunity doesnt knock, build a door. - Milton Berle 29. I will not let anyone scare me out of my full potential. - Nicki Minaj 30. “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt 31. Remember that guy that gave up? Neither does anyone else. - Unknown Ready to start your job search?  Check out the database of thousands of flexible jobs.