Definition of Career

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Career

A race course: the ground run over.

A running; full speed; a rapid course.

General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a public character; as, Washington's career as a soldier.

The flight of a hawk.

To move or run rapidly.

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Career Quotations

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
Marilyn Monroe

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
Barack Obama

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
Lou Holtz

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
Lao Tzu

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
Brian Tracy

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
Audrey Hepburn

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
Earl Nightingale

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
T. S. Eliot

And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.
Douglas MacArthur

Career Translations

career in German is Laufbahn, Beruf
career in Italian is pista, carriera
career in Portuguese is carreira
career in Spanish is carrera

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