At any stage of our career, advice is always appropriate. Sometimes it’s the smallest words of wisdom that can offer you some guidance or some reminders about who you are and the possibilities of what you can achieve in your life.
 

Here are 33 quotes of empowering quotes that I have continued to read throughout my career in order to inspire me to pursue my dreams and to never give up on myself along the way. In case you needed some inspiration, I wanted to share them with you:
 

 

1. “Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.”
~Katharine Whitehorn

 

2. “If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.”
~Unknown

 

3. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
~Beverly Sills

 

4. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
~Amelia Earhart

 

5. “Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.”
~Ancient Indian Proverb

 

6. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
~Les Brown

 

7. “When I let go of what i am i become what i might be.”
~Lao Tzu

 

8. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”
~Aristotle

 

9. “You are as amazing as you let yourself be. Let me repeat that. You are as amazing as you let yourself be!”
~Elizabeth Alraune

 

10. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
~Oscar Wilde

 

11. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”
~Aristotle

 

12. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
~Mae West

 

13. “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.”
~Steve Jobs

 

14. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.”
~Chris Grosser

 

15. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
~Eleanor Roosevelt

 

16. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too can become great.”
~Mark Twain

 

17. “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

 

18. “There is no passion to be found in playing small—in settling for a life that is less than you are capable of living.”
~Nelson Mandela

 

19. “The future depends on what you do today.”
~Mahatma Gandhi

 

20. “Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.”
~Herb Brooks

 

21. “I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.”
Oprah Winfrey

 

22. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
~William James

 

23. “Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy.”
~Unknown

 

24. “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
~Harriet Beecher Stowe

 

25. “Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.”
~Charles Swindoll

 

26. “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

 

27. “The harder I practice, the luckier I get.”
~Gary Player

 

28. “He who who says he can and he who says he can’t are both usually right.”
~Confucius

 

29. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
~Albert Einstein

 

30. “It’s like Forrest Gump said, ‘Life is like a box of chocolates.’ Your career is like a box of chocolates – you never know what you’re going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That’s the exciting part – it’s an adventure in itself.”
~Nick Carter

 

31. “Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.”
~A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

 

32. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
~Michael Jordan

 

33. “What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson