Inspiring New Job Quotes to Motivate Your Fresh Start

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"Starting a new job can be nerve-racking, but it’s also exciting. You’re embarking on a new future, positioning yourself to write a fresh story on a clean slate."

- Adena T. Friedman

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work."

- Felicia Day

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"You can start new chapters in your life because it’s your life, your book."

- Oprah Winfrey

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step."

- Muhammad Ali

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"The future depends on what you do today."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races, one after the other."

- Walter Elliot

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."

- Neale Donald Walsch

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

"A goal without a plan is just a wish."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Your network is your net worth."

- Porter Gale

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

"Opportunities don’t happen. You create them."

- Chris Grosser

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

"If you’re going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

- Stephen R. Covey

"Opportunities don’t happen, you create them."

- Chris Grosser

"Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

- Francis of Assisi

"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

"There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."

- Nelson Mandela

"If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

- Mark Twain

"If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try."

- Seth Godin

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

- Les Brown

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning."

- Louis L’Amour

"No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again."

- Buddha

"If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done."

- Thomas Jefferson

"It’s never too late for a new beginning in your life."

- Joyce Meyer

"Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited about what could go right."

- Tony Robbins

"Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It’s the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

- Carl Bard

"Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over."

- Guy Finley

"Every day is a fresh start, a blank canvas to paint upon."

- Craig Sager

"Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect."

- Alan Cohen

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down."

- Mary Pickford

"Every day is a chance to begin again. Don’t focus on the failures of yesterday, start today with positive thoughts and expectations."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change."

- Jim Rohn

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"The secret to change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

- Socrates

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings."

- Lao Tzu

"Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."

- Nibo Qubein

"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."

- T.S. Eliot

"A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be."

- Bruce Springsteen

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

"Celebrate endings, for they precede new beginnings."

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing there’s a future."

- Daphne Rose Kingma

"Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been and look at what can be."

- Marsha Petrie Sue

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."

- Johnny Cash

"Every moment wasted looking back keeps us from moving forward."

- Hillary Clinton

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go."

- Hermann Hesse

"Once you make the decision to move on, don’t look back. Your destiny will never be found in the rearview mirror."

- Mandy Hale

"If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old."

- Peter F. Drucker

"The beginning is always today."

- Mary Shelley

"Today is the first day of the rest of your life."

- Charles Dederich

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end."

- Seneca

"It always seems impossible until it is done."

- Nelson Mandela

"The fear of failure is a common motivation killer. People don’t try something new because they fear they will fail at it."

- Cary Bergeron

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Pujols

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are."

- J.P. Morgan

"Be willing to be a beginner every single morning."

- Meister Eckhart

"Though we may not have reached the heights we anticipated yesterday, today is a brand new day to begin a new climb."

- Chinonye J. Chidolue

"It’s never too late to become who you want to be. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose."

- Anne Sullivan

"As long as you’re still alive, you always have the chance to start again."

- Emily Acker

"You can start anew at any given moment. Life is just the passage of time and it’s up to you to pass it as you please."

- Charlotte Eriksson

"Never feel guilty for starting again."

- Rupi Kaur

"You are never too old to start over. Every day is a chance to make changes to create the life we want."

- Karon Waddell

"Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction."

- Germany Kent

"It’s never too late—never too late to start over, never too late to be happy."

- Jane Fonda

"You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up for you."

- Barbara Sher

"Pause and remember—it is never too late to begin again, to forgive someone, to have a dream, to meet someone or to love yourself. It is never too late!"

- Jennifer Young

"The best thing about existence is that any moment in time can be a point of beginning to anything!"

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

"It’s never too late to begin for one who is on the path of making the most of the moment. Where you are is [a] good enough place to begin."

- Abraham Omorogiuwa

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts about today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."

- Lao Tzu

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

- E.E. Cummings

"Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

"You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do."

- Henry Ford

"Feeling confident – or pretending that you feel confident – is necessary to reach for opportunities. It’s a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they’re seized."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of "Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this," and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough."

- Marissa Mayer

"Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back."

- Babe Ruth

"If we all did the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."

- Thomas Edison

"The more you do stuff, the better you get at dealing with how you still fail at it a lot of the time."

- John Mulaney

"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

"A year from now you may wish you had started today."

- Karen Lamb

"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

"Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence, and inspiration."

- Robin S. Sharma

"The true measure of leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less."

- John C. Maxwell

"A leader knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."

- John C. Maxwell

"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets people to do the greatest things."

- Ronald Reagan

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."

- Warren Bennis

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

"Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive."

- Jamais Cascio

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."

- Andrew Carnegie

"The strength of the team is each member. The strength of each member is the team."

- Phil Jackson

"Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results."

- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

"Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is a success."

- Henry Ford

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

- Steve Jobs

"Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity, not a threat."

- Steve Jobs

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"Endings are always tough, but I believe when something ends, there are new beginnings, new opportunities and new things to be excited for, too."

- Mike Fisher

"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."

- Harry Golden

"It’s a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don’t know about you, but I make plenty. You can’t turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead."

- Mel Gibson

"The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper and reimagines the world."

- Malcolm Gladwell

"I discovered that a fresh start is a process. A fresh start is a journey—a journey that requires a plan."

- Vivian Jokotade

"All we can do is our best. And sometimes the best that we can do… is to start over."

- Hayley Atwell

"Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning."

- Desmond Tutu

"Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings."

- Ralph Blum

"While you may lose many of your past possessions, you will still be able to find yourself."

- Deepak Chopra

"It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life for me, and I’m feeling good."

- Nina Simone

"Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can."

- Douglas Pagels

"The sooner we let go of holding on, the sooner we can hold on to the beauty of what’s unfolding before us. Nothing was ever meant to stay the same forever."

- Julieanne O’Connor

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

"Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for doing it."

- Katharine Whitehorn

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."

- Alice Walker

"The truth is that 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

"If you don’t feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated."

- Paul F. Davis

"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."

- John Henry Newman

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."

- Kurt Cobain

"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Change is the only constant in life."

- Heraclitus

"A sunrise is God’s way of saying, ‘Let’s start again’."

- Todd Stocker

"Begin today. Declare out loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy."

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"It’s humbling to start fresh. It takes a lot of courage. But it can be reinvigorating. You just have to put your ego on a shelf and tell it to be quiet."

- Jennifer Ritchie Payette

"Don’t pass on your passions to settle in the stale normality. Endure. Strive. Ensure."

- Anthony Liccione

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

- Truman Capote

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

- Mae West

"Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?"

- L.M. Montgomery

"Every sunset is an opportunity to reset. Every sunrise begins with new eyes."

- Richie Norton

"The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings."

- Dave Weinbaum

"Write your own book instead of reading someone else’s book about success."

- Herb Brooks

"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn."

- Gore Vidal

"Getting fired is nature’s way of telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place."

- Hal Lancaster

"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another."

- John Dewey

"There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention to the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up."

- Indra K. Nooyi

"A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory."

- Arthur Golden

"Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom."

- Sandra Day O’Connor

"Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy."

- Paulo Coelho

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Each day is filled with promise, potential and possibility."

- Tony Curl

"Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

- Gloria Steinem

"A mind that is stretched by new experiences can never go back to its old dimensions."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."

- Tom Stoppard

"He who never makes an effort, never risks a failure."

- Anonymous

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

- Lao Tzu

"You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person."

- Hillary Rodham Clinton

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."

- J. B. Priestley

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

- Mother Teresa

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

- Alan Watts

"New day, new hopes, new life!"

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"Sometimes we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us."

- Mimi Novic

"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."

- Stephen Covey

"Every day is a brand-new day, to start over again and live as if nothing has happened yesterday."

- Shaa Zainol

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."

- Michael Jordan

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

- Andre Gide

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

- Plato

"The future begins today."

- Wayne Gerard Trotman

"Impossible is just an opinion."

- Paulo Coelho

"Every morning’s dew is a fresh breath of a new beginning."

- Jessica Edouard

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

- Albert Einstein

"With this morning’s sunrise comes a day of things that have never been."

- Toni Sorenson

"Beginnings are always messy."

- John Galsworthy

"Everything is possible, even the impossible."

- Mary Poppins

"Collaboration allows us to know more than we are capable of knowing by ourselves."

- Paul Solarz

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."

- Aristotle

"Synergy is the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously."

- Mark Twain

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

- Albert Einstein

"Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."

- Arthur Koestler

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

- Scott Adams

"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out."

"It's not what you know, but who you know."