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Circumstances can either make us or break us, the choice is ours.

Success is determined not by what you get for reaching your destination, but by what you learned from the journey.

On Being Qualified

Whenever 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, (1858-1919) 26th President of the United States

Inspiration

for The Job Seeker

On True Success

One important key to success is

self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Arthur Ashe, (1943-1993) Prominent Tennis Player, Civil Rights Activist

When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.

Anna Quindlen, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist

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, Comedian and Television Host

Fall seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb

On Doing Your Job Well

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

People forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it.

On Losing Your Job

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

Hal Lancaster, The Wall Street Journal