50. This is what I tell young women who ask me for career advice. People are going to try to trick you. To make you feel that you are in competition with one another. Youre up for a promotion. If they go for a woman, itll be between you and Barbara. Dont be fooled. Youre not in competition with other women. Youre in competition witheveryone.Tina Fey,BossypantsMORE:What to (Really) Wear to a Job Interview: Tips for Every Industry

49. I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. Gloria Steinem48. If youre offered a seat on a rocket ship, dont ask what seat! Just get on. Sheryl Sandberg47. Dont lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You dont have a career. You have a life. Do the work. Keep the faith. Be true blue. You are a writer because you write. Keep writing and quit your bitching. Your book has a birthday. You dont know what it is yet. Cheryl Strayed,Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar46. Feeling confident or pretending that you feel confident is necessary to reach for opportunities. Its a clich, but opportunities are rarely offered; theyre seized. Sheryl SandbergMORE:What Job Is Right For Me? 5 Ways To (Really!) Answer That Question45. Youll never make a fortune working for the boss man. Jeannette Walls,The Glass Castle44. Your career is like a garden. It can hold an assortment of lifes 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 Payette43. The worst days of those who enjoy what they do, are better than the best days of those who dont.E. James Rohn42. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.Confucius41. Its not what you achieve, its what you overcome. Thats what defines your career.Carlton FiskMORE:Do Attractive People Land More Job Interviews? New Study Says Yes40. Work to become, not to acquire.Elbert Hubbard39. Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.Katherine Whitehorn

38. Ive missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. Ive lost almost 300 games. 26 times, Ive been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. Ive failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.Michael Jordan37. Failure doesnt mean you are a failure it just means you havent succeeded yet.Robert H. Schuller36. The best way to predict the future is to create it.Abraham LincolnMORE:How to Get a Job in Fashion: 5 Industry Insiders Share Their Success Secrets35. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.Thomas A. Edison34. I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.Lou Holts

Photo: Getty33. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.Jon Stewart32. Dreams are extremely important. You cant do it unless you imagine it.George Lucas31. If you can DREAM it, you can DO it.Walt DisneyMORE:Body Language Secrets: How To Get a Date, Land a Job, And More30. Desire! Thats the one secret of every mans career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.Johnny Carson29. I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.Helen Keller28. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.Arthur Golden

27. Its not the days in your life, but the life in your days that counts.Brian White26. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.General George PattonMORE:5 Fabulous Pieces of Career Advice from Iconic Supermodel Iman25. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.Albert Einstein24. Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.Ralph Waldo Emerson23. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.Mark Twain22. You cant build a reputation on what youre going to do. Confucius

21.Ive learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.Maya AngelouMORE:How To Get A Job In Fashion: Photographer Edition20. A career is wonderful, but you cant curl up with it on a cold night.Marilyn Monroe19. Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.Liz Smith

Photo: Getty18.In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the jobs sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.Dorothy L. Sayers,Are Women Human? Penetrating, Sensible, and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society17. Often people attempt to live their lives backwards, they try to have more things or more money in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are then do what you need to do in order to have what you want.Margaret Young16.What youre really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.Barbara Sher,I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get ItMORE:101 Ways To Save Money Right Now: Easy Tips Every Girl Should Know15. Pitting your dream against someone elses is a fantastic way to get discouraged and depressed.Jon Acuff,Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job & Your Dream Job14. I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those that reach the top are the ones who are not content with doing only what is required of them.Og Mandino,The Greatest Salesman In The World13. Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think Does this go toward or away from what I want? Always choose what goes toward what you want.Barbara Sher,I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It

12. Every time you worry that you could get trapped in some kind of work you dont care about, youre dealing with the problem of meaningfulness. I guarantee that in the back of your mind is the thought that somehow you have to make a contribution to something, be acknowledged, do something that mattersor youre just fooling around.Barbara Sher,I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It11. When one door closes another opens but all too often there is a long hallway in between.Rick Jarow,The Ultimate Anti-Career Guide: The Inner Path to Finding Your Work in the World10. I was very lucky to be offered a lovely piece of property to build a career on. I started building a house on it, but it wasnt necessarily a house I would want to live in. So I ripped down that house, and I worked with these great lumberjacks to build a really cool cabina place I want to drink whiskey in and hang out until the sun rises.Vanessa CarltonMORE:30 Inspiring Health Quotes to Kick You Into Gear This Year9. No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.Rob Liano8. Know the difference between your hobbies and your passions.B.S. Wood7. Follow your passion; Do not get married to it, though.Ashok Kallarakkal6. Desperation works in job search as well as it does in dating.Darrell Gurney,Never Apply for a Job Again!: Break the Rules, Cut the Line, Beat the Rest5. Be true to what naturally interests you and be brave enough to turn an obsession into a profession.Shelly Branch,What Would Jackie Do?: An Inspired Guide to Distinctive LivingMORE:15 Inspiring Quotes From Strong Women We Love (And GIFs, Too)4. Some people make enough, some people dont, and it has nothing to do with their paycheck.Janene Murphy3. If you find yourself in a hole; stop digging.Sharon Cooke Vargas2. If youre not the hero of your talent story, you simply become a player in one you didnt choose.Jay Perry,Take Charge of Your Talent: Three Keys to Thriving in Your Career, Organization, and Life1. Dont be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourselfyou are not old enough to judge for yourself yet; but just look about you in the place you find yourself in, and try to make things a little better and honester there.Thomas Hughes,Tom Browns Schooldays

1. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.(Confucius)2. Its not what you achieve, its what you overcome. Thats what defines your career.(Carlton Fisk)3. Work to become, not to acquire.(Elbert Hubbard)4. Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.(Katherine Whitehorn)5. Ive missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. Ive lost almost 300 games. 26 times, Ive been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. Ive failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.(Michael Jordan)6. Failure doesnt mean you are a failure it just means you havent succeeded yet.(Robert H. Schuller)7. The best way to predict the future is to create it.(Abraham Lincoln)8. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.(Thomas A. Edison)9. I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. (Lou Holtz)10. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. (Jon Stewart)11. Dreams are extremely important.You cant do it unless you imagine it.(George Lucas)12. If you can DREAM it, you can DO it. (Walt Disney)13. Desire! Thats the one secret of every mans career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire. (Johnny Carson)14. I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do. (Helen Keller)15. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.(Arthur Golden)16. Its not the days in your life, but the life in your days that counts.(Brian White)17. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. (General George Patton)18. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. (Albert Einstein)19. Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)20. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. (Mark Twain)21. You cant build a reputation on what youre going to do. (Confucius)