In continuation of “31 Quotes to Supercharge Your Career,” we present twenty-five more quotes that tackle motivation, risk-taking, learning and overall self-improvement to move your career forward.

All quotes are from guest interviews on the Strategic Momentum Podcast.

Quotes about Emotions & Motivation

1. “If you understand your emotions and how they work, you can make them work for you.” - Dr. Mary Lamia
   

2. “Labeling emotions as positive or negative has nothing to do with their value. Instead it involves how they motivate us by the way they make us feel.” - Dr. Mary Lamia
   

3. “Emotion is momentum. It is motivation. We are not motivated without our emotions.” - Dr. Mary Lamia
   

4. “Unless we learn to first of all accept that we are experiencing a certain emotion, we will never learn from them.” - Dr. Mary Lamia
   

5. “When you get at what you're passionate about and find something that helps others, it really opens a degree of fulfillment that most people haven't experienced.” - Dr. Richard Shuster 
   

6. “You don't have to be a healthcare professional to help people. It starts with what fires you up, what's important to you.” - Dr. Richard Shuster 
   

7. “Once you've done that first step and you've really become crystal clear on what your values are, and once you find what's important to you, you have to surround yourself with people who share that mindset or share that commitment.” - Dr. Richard Shuster 
   

8. “Be very clear with yourself based on your values about what it is that you want to do and take action so that all of the things that you do in your life personally and professionally drill back to your core values.” - Dr. Richard Shuster 
   

9. “If you continue being true to your core values and your mission, you will eventually achieve that goal you set out to achieve.” - Dr. Richard Shuster
   

10. “There are absolute differences between people who are deadline-driven and people who do things ahead of time, and neither style is better than the other.” - Dr. Mary Lamia 

Quotes about Growth & Risk-Taking

1. “[Growth] is something that isn't linear. It needs to be something that's a little bit more lateral. Look at what you can achieve sideways to then really take big leaps forward.” - Deepak Shukla
   

2. “Life is full of action. Build something...If you're in a situation, and you're feeling stuck, turn it into a progression.” - Yao Huang
   

3. “Whatever it is in your life that you are trying to do, don't negotiate against yourself. Don't write your story about how things are going to play out without even trying.” - Meghan French Dunbar
   

4. “Ambition and risk are intertwined because if you want to go to places you've not yet been, you have to do things that you've not yet done.” - Deepak Shukla
   

5. “A journey or a new door may reveal itself to you that didn't previously exist because you stuck your head above the parapet...That can give you a new code that you can apply to the workplace to see what kind of return that you get.” - Deepak Shukla
   

6. “Growth can take any form. The only idea is that it doesn't follow something repetitive.” - Deepak Shukla
   

7. “Do something that you can't back out of because then the momentum will follow. The momentum should carry you further forward.” - Deepak Shukla
   

8. “[Growth] is something that isn't linear. It needs to be something that's a little bit more lateral. Look at what you can achieve sideways to then really take big leaps forward.” - Deepak Shukla

Quotes about Fear

1. “When we express fears of failure, anyone attaching any confirmation to that is actually attaching energy to something that's going to inhibit you.” - Deepak Shukla
   

2. If we fear fear, we tend to make judgments and choices that are pessimistic, and we amplify our perception of risk in any situation.” - Dr. Mary Lamia

Quotes about Learning

1. “If you're smart and you've got enough humility to admit that you don't know what you don't know, and you work hard, you can probably learn almost anything.” - Beth Freedman
   

2. “If you're thinking about doing something that you've not yet done, go out and get the data. Read it in an aggressive fashion. Acquire all of the knowledge that you think is relevant to making that move and then go out and do it.” - Deepak Shukla
   

3. “You can do something that really feels right to you... and you're doing it in a place that you enjoy... And it starts with letting go of assumptions that you probably haven't examined in a long time.” - Stephane Fitch
   

4. “Learning by doing, you learn much faster...So, if you learn by reading a book, you'll retain 10%. You learn by a classroom, or video, or workshop, you retain 20%. If you learn by doing, you retain 80%. So, it will make smarter people.” - Yao Huang
   

5. “It's important that as you evolve and try new things, you try to learn things that compliment what you've learned.” - Pierre Hadaya

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