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“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.”
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
“The ultimate purpose of life, mind, and human striving: to deploy energy and information to fight back the tide of entropy and carve out refuges of beneficial order.”
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.”
“Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.”
“I’d tell men and women in their mid-twenties not to settle for a job or a profession or even a career. Seek a calling”
“This is the real secret of life—to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. Instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
“Man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.”
“Where talent and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.”
“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.”
“Passion is the genesis of genius.”
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
“Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.”
“What you seek is seeking you.”
“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.”
“I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.”
“Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
“Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it.”
“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.”
“Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life...”
“Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.”
“I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.”
“Whatever it is that you’re passionate about, whatever it is that you absolutely love, and whatever it is that you would get up out of bed every day and do for free, you should try to figure out a way to make money at it and give it a shot”
“Passion is the fuel for success”
“Don't start a business unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.”
“Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
“Purpose. One word that drives me every day. Find yours and be willing to die for it.”
“Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.”
“A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.”
“Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.”
“The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.”
“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
“People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it.”
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
“You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.”
“If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning”
“Every calling is great when greatly pursued.”
“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.”
“Find that thing you are super passionate about”
“It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly.”
“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
“The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.”
“We're only envious of those already doing what we were made to do. Envy is a giant, flashing arrow pointing us toward our destiny.”
“Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.”
“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”
“It's time to start living the life you've imagined.”
“Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.”
“Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.”
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
“The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”
“What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.”
“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”
“The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”
“Do what you love and put your whole heart into it, and then just have fun.”
“You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”
“Life-fulfilling work is never about the money, when you feel true passion for something, you instinctively find ways to nurture it.”
“Not a day's work in all my life. What I have done I have done, because it has been play.”
“The secret of success is constancy of purpose.”
“Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress; working hard for something we love is called passion.”
“When in doubt, always go back to your whys. Give yourself permission to fail.”
“Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.”
“Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time.”
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
“When you know your why, your what has more impact, because you are walking toward your purpose.”
“The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder.”
“The only time a fellow really enjoys himself is when he's got a good job and is doing it.”
“What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
“Excellence is... caring more than others think is wise; risking more than others think is safe; dreaming more than others think is practical; expecting more than others think is possible.”
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
“It doesn't matter where you were born as much as it matters why you were born.”
“Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life.”
“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.”
“Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.”
“In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”
“Purpose is worth seven years of extra life expectancy.”
“You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough.”
“What you are for empowers you and what you are against weakens you.”
“Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.”
“You have to be passionate about what you do, otherwise you won’t succeed”
“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”
“If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.”
“The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.”
“Life Gains Reflect Life Aims.”
“If you want to know where your heart is, look where your mind goes when it wanders.”
“Without work all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”
“Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now.”
“The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.”
“Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come from miles to watch you burn.”
“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.”
“There's lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there's only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: it's to change the world.”
“It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.”
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.”
“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury; and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable; and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.”
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work”
“You never lose a dream. It just incubates as a hobby.”
“Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.”
“Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”
“Do what you love, and put your whole heart into it”
“Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
“Life is a promise; fulfill it.”
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.”
“When things get hard (which they will), your WHY needs to be strong enough to keep you going.”
“Find your passion and run with it”
“Make your life a mission, not an intermission.”
“Life is not about Certainty and Significance. Life is about Growth and Contribution.”
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”
“There's this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it's done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done.”
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
“Follow your bliss.”
“It comes down to finding something you love to do and then just trying to be great at it.”
“To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”
“We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
“If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.”
“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.”
“A man without aim is like a clock without hands, as useless if it goes as if it stands still.”
“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
“Find something you love and do it better than everyone else.”
“Some pursue happiness - others create it.”
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do”
“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
“Build your business success around something that you love, something that is inherently and endlessly interesting to you.”
“It is hard work to fill one's life with meaning.”
“Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.”
“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery.”
“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting.”
“Vocation is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.”
“When you find your why, you find a way to make it happen.”
“Believe in something bigger than yourself, and fight like hell for it”
“I believe people have to follow their dreams - I did”
“To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.”
“It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”
“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”
“Life is found in the dance between what you desire most and fear most.”
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
“Do what you love and the money will follow.”
