Quotes About Career Change

Inspirational Career Change Quotes

• Mark Twain

  The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up. ~Mark Twain

• Benjamin R. Barber

  I went into the academic world under the illusion that it was a place where people cared passionately about ideas, about teaching, about discourse, about reflecting critically. What I discovered was a world of small-minded, partisan professionals, many of whom where there because they couldn't figure out what else to do. So I created a life inside the academy that reflected the life I wanted to lead. ~ Benjamin R. Barber, author of "Jihad Vs McWorld"

• Ray Bradbury

  You've got to jump off cliffs, all the time, and build your wings on the way down. ~Ray Bradbury

• Teddy Roosevelt

  Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. ~ Teddy Roosevelt

• Joseph Campbell

  A bit of advice given to a young Native American at the time of his initiation: "As you go the way of life, you will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think." ~Joseph Campbell