50 Inspirational Quotes to Ace Your Job Interview and Boost Confidence

"When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can! ‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"My dude you can do it!! Just be yourself, be honest, don't think that not knowing the answer to one question is the end of the world (but try always to come up with some sort of reasoning). Interviews are stressful and I get the feeling but trust me, a smile and some display of confidence work miracles!!"

- No_Double4762

"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."

- Bruce Lee

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Winston Churchill

"Do your best. And whatever happens you will have been true to yourself!"

- Redmistnf

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

- Peter Drucker

"Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined."

- Johnny Carson

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And 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. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it."

- Steve Jobs

"Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better."

- Babe Ruth

"There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you."

- Richard Branson

"Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs."

- Farrah Gray Rogers

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you don’t stop."

- Confucius

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up."

- Vince Lombardi

"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 Friedman

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."

- Bill Bradley

"Growth and comfort do not coexist."

- Ginni Rometty

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

"You need to believe in yourself and what you do. Be tenacious and genuine."

- Christian Louboutin

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

- Zig Ziglar

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success."

- Bo Bennett

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"When you’re at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That’s all there is to it."

- Samuel Fuller

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge."

- H. Stanley Judd

"Nothing in the 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

"Adaptability isn’t about compromising your values; it’s about staying resilient and learning."

- Indra Nooyi

"Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance and resistance to keep going and keep trying."

- Kevin Feige

"If I went by all the rejection I’ve had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago."

- Mike Myers

"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."

- Jackson Brown Jr.

"Change before you have to."

- Jack Welch

"It’s not what you achieve, it’s what you overcome. That’s what defines your career."

- Carlton Fisk

"Any transition is easier if you believe in yourself and your talent."

- Priyanka Chopra

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it."

- Diane Sawyer

"You got the interview so they already like the look of you!"

- Westsidepipeway

"If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards."

- Bear Bryant

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

- Wayne Gretzky

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

"Be so good they can’t ignore you."

- Steve Martin

"Good luck OP! You'll smash it ☺️"

- BuddhaCanLevitate

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Chris Grosser

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

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

- William James

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

- Sam Levenson

"The future depends on what you do today."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The average person puts only 25% of his energy into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%."

- Andrew Carnegie

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."

- Martin Luther King

"All our dreams can come true— if we have the courage to pursue them."

- Walt Disney

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

- Robert F. Kennedy

"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"To be a great champion, you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are."

- Muhammad Ali

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Milton Berle

"The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from the shore."

- Dale Carnegie

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Milton Berle

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

- Steve Jobs

"Every success story is a tale of constant adaptation, revision, and change."

- Richard Branson

"Change brings opportunities. You have to trust that new paths will emerge."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Adaptability is about mastering change rather than merely surviving it."

- Harold Geneen

"Desire! That’s the one secret of every man’s career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire."

- Bobby Unser

"Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it."

- Chuck Palahniuk

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

- Andre Gide

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."

- Walt Disney

"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."

- John D. Rockefeller

"The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice."

- Frank McCourt

"All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary."

- Sally Ride

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

- Confucius

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"The important thing is not to stop questioning."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Katharine Whitehorn

"Leaders must be close enough to relate to others but far enough ahead to motivate them."

- John C. Maxwell

"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be."

- Rosalynn Carter

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

- Steve Jobs

"Work takes on new meaning when you feel you are pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it’s just a job, and life is too short for that."

- Tim Cook

"You can quit your job, but you can’t quit your calling."

- Lissa Rankin

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

- Aristotle

"Work to become, not to acquire."

- Elbert Hubbard

"A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks."

- Steve Guttenberg

"I always take notes into interviews with me so if I forget what I want to say, I’ve got some key words and bullet points to refer to."

- raegordon

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

- Henry Ford

"I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything."

- Jon Stewart

"Take your job seriously, but don’t take yourself too seriously."

- Alex Trebek

"It's ok to ask for a minute to have a think about the question."

- Westsidepipeway

"You can ask them to repeat the question or explain in a different way what they're asking."

- Westsidepipeway

"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."

- John Wooden

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows."

- Helen Keller

"Change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end."

- Robin Sharma

"I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- George Eliot

"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him."

- Aldous Huxley

"Don’t confuse having a career with having a life."

- Hillary Clinton

"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."

- Booker T. Washington

"A career is born in public – talent in privacy."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Repetition doesn’t create memories. New experiences do."

- Brian Chesky

"Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."

- Winston Churchill

"If you sleep, great. If not, then just rest. When your alarm goes off, you'll be feeling a lot more refreshed than before."

- WatchingTellyNow

"Have a coffee, set an alarm for 30 mins, settle down on the sofa with something dark over your eyes and rest."

- WatchingTellyNow

"You might find you feel much better after a power nap."

- WatchingTellyNow

"You're checking them out too!"

- Westsidepipeway

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

- Marcel Proust

"No man ever listened himself out of a job."

- Calvin Coolidge

"No one ever gets very far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Bring water so you can sip it if you get a mind blank."

- Westsidepipeway

"There are so many things you can learn about. But you’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut."

- Dr. Seuss

"Best of luck in your interview tomorrow OP. I find having a glass of water and splashing cold water on my face makes me a bit alert I think!"

- SamosaLad

"It's time to start living the life we've imagined."

- Henry James

"Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there."

- Yogi Berra

"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."

- Thomas Jefferson

"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it."

"When one door closes, another opens."