Professional Life Quotes

“Accountability and self-responsibility are critical to our success in personal, professional and public life. However, we often look for those character traits in others, rather than inculcating them in ourselves.”
― Vishwas Chavan, VishwaSutras: Universal Principles For Living: Inspired by Real-Life Experiences

“...I finally went back to my seat in the second row and sat there doing what I've done throughout my professional life: I tried to think, first, how to make credible a somewhat extreme, if not outright ridiculous story, and, next, how, after telling it, to fortify and defend myself from the affronted who read into the story an intention having perhaps to do less with the author's perversity than with their own.”
― Philip Roth, Operation Shylock: A Confession

“Navigating your professional life isn’t just a game of numbers and résumés, but emotions.”
― Evan Thomsen, Don’t Chase The Dream Job, Build It: The unconventional guide to inventing your career and getting any job you want

“Importantly, nothing in this book is an advocacy for one type of career, industry, set of knowledge, or field of study. The practical methods in this book are not like a map with the journey and destination laid out, but like a set of tools, helping you to be a better architect of your professional life.”
― Evan Thomsen, Don’t Chase The Dream Job, Build It: The unconventional guide to inventing your career and getting any job you want

“Speak fluently. Dress neatly. Move swiftly.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, The Event Usher’s Handbook

“I’m just saying that once that have an excuse, people will do anything. They do what they are told, and they take their money and they think it’s all okay because it’s just their job, while their real self is what happens after work, when they’re bouncing a baby on the knee, or writing poems about snowflakes or whatever.”
― Paul Murray, The Mark and the Void

“Work like a professional. Don’t sweat. Don’t complain.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, The Event Usher’s Handbook

“A vida é um sopro.”
― Oscar Niemeyer

“Professional loyalty now flows "horizontally" to and from your network rather than "vertically" to your boss, as Dan Pink has noted.”
― Reid Hoffman, The Startup of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career

“Professionalism is death, excellence is life.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Only A FOOL Will COMPARE And CONTRAST My PERSONAL Life, My PROFESSIONAL Life, And My DIVINE Life”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“LIFE TEACHES YOU THAT YOU'D MEET TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE.

1. WHO WILL STEP BACK AS SOON AS THEY FIND YOU ARE POWERLESS AND IN NEED OF SUPPORT.

2. WHO WOULD COME FORWARD TO FEED ON YOUR WEAKNESS AND TAKE OPPORTUNITY FIRST IN RETURN OF THE SUPPORT.

YOU CAN'T HELP FALLING BECAUSE IT'S A ROLLERCOASTER LIFE. YOU FALL TODAY, YOU'LL RISE TOMORROW..

BUT MAKE SURE WHEN YOU FALL WEAK, PEOPLE DON'T NIBBLE ON YOUR WOUNDS.”
― Himmilicious

“Which kind of P's do you wish to be;
Professor
Physician
Poet
Prophet
Pastor
Priest
Publisher
Painter
Photographer
It is all possible. Choose carefully your profession.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“There is no blue collar, no white collar, just honor. And honor is defined by character not collar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Designation without humanity is resignation of humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans