52 Motivational Quotes For Recruiters!

I love motivational quotes don’t you? I suspect the answer is yes because whenever I share my favourites many people comment. That gave me the idea to create a page on our website for all my favourite inspiration quotes.  Here they are then; enough to keep you going for a year. Some are a bit deep, some thought provoking, some sassy and some downright cheesy!

If you love the quotes please share around your fellow recruiters or send them here to have a look.

1. There will be haters, There will be doubters, There will be nonbelievers, and Then there will be you proving them all wrong-Anon

2. “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” – Unknown

3. If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional, wait until you hire an amateur

4. You cannot hang out with negative people and expect to get a positive result

5. “For every sale you miss because you’re too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you’re not enthusiastic enough.” –Zig Ziglar

6. “When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.”-Anon

7. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” –Wayne Gretzky

8. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in & day out.” Robert Collier

9. “Most people over estimate what they can do in year 1 and totally underestimate what they will achieve by year” – Bill Gates

10. “Hire on Attitude. Not just experience and qualifications.” Greg Savage

11. “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”-Thomas Jefferson

12. It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. Winston Churchill

13. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

14. “The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world.” Steve Jobs

15. “Never, Never, Never give up. -Winston Churchill

16. “Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.” –Ralph Waldo

17. “You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.” Seth Godin

18. “I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.” Mia Hamm

19. “Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.” Spanish Proverb

20. “Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.” –Audrey Hepburn

21. “Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.”-Arnold Palmer

22. “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” –Thomas Jefferson

23. “Leap, and the net will appear.” John Burroughs

24. “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. The slogan “press on” has solved and will always solve the problems of the human race.” –Calvin Coolidge

25. Don’t sell. Solve! -Unknown

26. Prospecting – Find the man with the problem. (Ben Friedman)

27. Sales isn’t a game to be played or a battle to be won. Selling is about problem solving and genuine relationships-Alicia Hicks

28. Sales are contingent on the attitude of the salesman – not the attitude of the prospect. -W. Clement Stone

29. I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. Margaret Thatcher

30. Hard work means prosperity; only a fool idles away his time. Proverbs

31. Men who do things without being told draw the most wages. Edwin H. Stuart

32. A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else. Mahatma Gandhi

33. You create your opportunities by asking for them. Shakti Gawain

34. “Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.” Henry Ford

35. The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. Ralph Waldo Emerson

36. “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” Pablo Picasso

37. The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. Jim Rohn

38. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. Jim Ryun

39. “The price of excellence is discipline; the cost of mediocrity is disappointment.” —William Arthur Ward

40. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” —Beverly Sills

41. “There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love to do, there is only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.”  — Wayne Dyer

42. The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.  — Richard M. DeVos

43. “Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working 24 hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.”  — Tom Blandi

44. The ultimate inspiration is the DEADLINE.” -Nolan Bushnell

45. “Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it.” – Marva Collins

46. “ACTION is the foundational key to all success.” Pablo Picasso

47. “The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.” – Herbert Kaufman

48. “Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice.” – Steve Jobs

49. “All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them but confront them.” – William F. Halsey

50. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” –Mandela

51. “Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.” –Sophocles

52. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” -Nelson Mandela

What do you think? As a team of rec 2 rec consultants we often keep ourselves going by sharing these around. Got any you would like to share. Either leave a comment head over to our facebook page and post or send us an email.

Till next time,

Cheryl