20 Motivational Quotes to Get You Through Your Job Search

If you’ve been hitting the pavement for a while now and feel like you’re not getting anywhere in your job search it can be extremely frustrating. However, the key to landing the job you’re looking for is to stay productive and stay motivated. Here are 20 quotes to get you through a tough job search.

1. Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. - Charles R. Swindoll

2. Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star. - W. Clement Stone

3. Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. - Sam Levenson

4. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. - Confucius

5. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. - Arthur Ashe

6. We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. - Maya Angelou

7. The road to success is always under construction. - Arnold Palmer

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. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. - General George Patton

10. 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 that has opened for us. - Alexander Graham Bell

11. If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. – Maya Angelou

12. Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

13. Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. - Calvin Coolidge

14. Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly. – Proverb

15. Fall seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese Proverb

16. Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it. - Marva Collins

17. Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward. - Brian Tracy

18. Be so good they can’t ignore you. - Steve Martin

19. Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. – Michael Jordan

20. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will. – Vince Lombardi

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