Find & Follow Your Why Quotes
A man can bear almost any hard road once he knows why he walks it. The right reason keeps him going long after motivation runs out, and no borrowed reason ever will. This Purpose path holds history's deepest quotes on purpose, passion, and calling. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“Passion is the genesis of genius.”
“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.”
“Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in 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.”
“Find that thing you are super passionate about”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“You have to be passionate about what you do, otherwise you won’t succeed”
“Find your passion and run with it”
“Passion is the fuel for success”
“If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning”
“Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress; working hard for something we love is called passion.”
“If you can’t figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.”
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
“Do what you love and put your whole heart into it, and then just have fun.”
“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”
“Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.”
“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.”
“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.”
“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.”
“To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.”
“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.”
“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.”
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
“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.”
“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.”
“You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”
“Build your business success around something that you love, something that is inherently and endlessly interesting to you.”
“Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it.”
“It comes down to finding something you love to do and then just trying to be great at it.”
“Find something you love and do it better than everyone else.”
“Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.”
“In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”
“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.”
“If you don’t love what you do, you won’t do it with much conviction or passion.”
“Life-fulfilling work is never about the money, when you feel true passion for something, you instinctively find ways to nurture it.”
“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.”
“You never lose a dream. It just incubates as a hobby.”
“Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.”
“Live for the weekends and that's all you'll ever have.”
“People are naturally drawn to the things they feel comfortable doing, and comfort is a marker for talent.”
“Success caused passion more than passion caused success.”
“You lose nothing when you fight for a cause. In my mind the losers are those who don’t have a cause they care about.”
“One person with knowledge of his life’s purpose is more powerful than ten thousand working without that knowledge.”
“I’m not a fan of ’finding your purpose.’ I’m a fan of ’living with purpose.’”
“You don’t ask the bottomless, ’What do I want to do with my life?’ but instead, ’What have I done in my life that I loved doing?’”
“Passion is often found in the crucible of work.”
“People are mistaken when they think chasing your dream is a selfish thing to do. As if perhaps being average is an act of humility.”
“I don’t want you to wake up at sixty-five and realize, ’I spent forty of my best years doing something that just funded my life.’”
