Find & Follow Your Why Quotes

“Believe in something bigger than yourself, and fight like hell for it”

“Purpose. One word that drives me every day. Find yours and be willing to die for it.”

“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.”

“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.”

“Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come from miles to watch you burn.”

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

“If you want to know where your heart is, look where your mind goes when it wanders.”

“What you are for empowers you and what you are against weakens you.”

“Vocation is where your greatest joy meets the world’s greatest need.”

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do”

“Where talent and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.”

“Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.”

“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

“The secret of success is constancy of purpose.”

“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.”

“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting.”

“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.”

“Not a day’s work in all my life. What I have done I have done, because it has been play.”

“What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.”

“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”

“Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.”

“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.”

“The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.”

“It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly.”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”

“The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder.”

“Without work all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”

“It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.”

“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

“You have to be passionate about what you do, otherwise you won’t succeed”

“Find your passion and run with it”

“Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.”

“When you find your why, you find a way to make it happen.”

“Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient.”

“A man’s true delight is to do the things he was made for.”

“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

“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”

“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”

“The only time a fellow really enjoys himself is when he’s got a good job and is doing it.”

“Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.”

“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”

“Some pursue happiness - others create it.”

“The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”

“We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”

“Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it.”

“It is hard work to fill one’s life with meaning.”

“Follow your bliss.”

“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.”

“Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress; working hard for something we love is called passion.”

“Do what you love and put your whole heart into it, and then just have fun.”

“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery.”

“Find that thing you are super passionate about”

“Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life…”

“Life-fulfilling work is never about the money, when you feel true passion for something, you instinctively find ways to nurture it.”

“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.”

“Build your business success around something that you love, something that is inherently and endlessly interesting to you.”

“Don’t lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don’t have a career. You have a life.”

“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 always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.”

“Make your life a mission, not an intermission.”

“Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”

“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.”

“You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.”

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”

“Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.”

“Do what you love and the money will follow.”

“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”

“When things get hard (which they will), your WHY needs to be strong enough to keep you going.”

“You never lose a dream. It just incubates as a hobby.”

“Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.”

“Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”

“Passion is the fuel for success”

“The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”

“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.”

“Purpose is a thing you build, not a thing you find.”

“Life is found in the dance between what you desire most and fear most.”

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”

“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.”

“The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.”

“Life is a promise; fulfill it.”

“If you can’t figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.”

“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.”

“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

“Passion is the genesis of genius.”

“It comes down to finding something you love to do and then just trying to be great at it.”

“The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost.”

“A man without aim is like a clock without hands, as useless if it goes as if it stands still.”

“What you seek is seeking you.”

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”

“Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.”

“The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.”

“Every calling is great when greatly pursued.”

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.”

“When you know your why, your what has more impact, because you are walking toward your purpose.”

“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”

“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.”

“You lose your way when you lose your why.”

“The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment.”

“Life is not about Certainty and Significance. Life is about Growth and Contribution.”

“Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.”

“It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”

“Life Gains Reflect Life Aims.”

“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.”

“In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”

“Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.”

“Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”

“If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning”

“It doesn’t matter where you were born as much as it matters why you were born.”

“To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.”

“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.”

“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.”

“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”

“Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.”

“Find something you love and do it better than everyone else.”

“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.”

“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.”

“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.”

“The purpose of life is to discover your gift; the work of life is to develop it; and the meaning of life is to give your gift away.”

“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”

“When in doubt, always go back to your whys. Give yourself permission to fail.”

“Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.”

“It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.”

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”

“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites 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.”

“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.”

“If you don’t love what you do, you won’t do it with much conviction or passion.”

“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.”

“Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.”

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”

“Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.”

“The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.”