Quotes on Work You Love

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.

Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

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.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.

Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

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.