Quotes about Career

Life is a mission, not a career.

How many people are not as good as they could be at their job because they don't love it? They're not passionate about it. If you don't like something, why are you doing it?

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's 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.

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.

Many of us don't even know what it means to have a Christian perspective on our work. Oh, we know that being a Christian means being ethical on the job- as Saly put it, "no lying and cheating." But the work itself is typically defined in secular terms as bringing home a paycheck, climbing the career ladder, building a professional reputation.

I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.

Single women should not be made to feel they are missing something because they are not married. Married women should not be made to feel they must have a career to be complete.

Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love in service to mankind.

When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.

I believe that God's dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don't mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you're planted. But I don't have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.