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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“There can be no joy in living without joy in work.”
“Any good job is a good job. This whole concept of a dead-end job? It’s not true. I’ve heard it my whole life. Jobs lead to dignity.”
“People are unhappy because they’re chasing the wrong things. Money and power aren’t the answer – they never have been.”
“The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.”
“The first essential in a boy’s career is to find out what he’s fitted for, what he’s most capable of doing and doing with a relish.”
“You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.”
“You can have a job, or you can have a career, or you can have a calling.”
“It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.”
“The essence of education is not to stuff you with facts but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then to show you how to give it away.”
“Look for a job you would take if you didn’t need a job.”
“We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.”
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself”
“I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.”
“There’s no magic answer to your life’s purpose. You simply must decide what you’re going to emotionally invest in. Over time, what you invest in will become your purpose.”
“When you truly are on purpose, the people, resources, and opportunities you need naturally gravitate toward you.”
“Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.”
“A job is how you make money. A career is how you make your mark. A calling is how you acknowledge a higher vision, whatever it may be.”
“The intention to live as long as possible isn’t one of the mind’s best intentions, because quantity isn’t the same as quality.”
“You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.”
“The gifts we are given in life require the best of us, not merely our best intentions.”
“We have the responsibility to put our gifts to work.”
“If you are not excited about your own dream, how can you expect anybody else to be?”
“When your why is big enough you will find your how.”
“Real ambition is about you; it doesn’t care about likes, followers or comments, it cares about what honestly matters to you.”
“Don’t work hard just so you can take a holiday. Work hard to build a life that you don’t need to take a holiday from.”
“Those whose work and pleasure are one… are… Fortune’s favoured children.”
“It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.”
“It might be a good opportunity on paper, but if it isn’t the type of thing you want to spend all day working on, then you probably won’t stick with it. And if you won’t stick with it, then it’s not a good opportunity for you.”
“If it felt like a hassle from the start, you’re likely to quit as soon as things get tough. But if you’ve been having fun the whole time, you’re better positioned to work through the hard parts.”
“The secret is not to find the meaning of life, but to use your life to make things that are meaningful.”
“Make sure that mountain is worth climbing.”
“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
“To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only obligation.”
“A life without a cause is a life without effect.”
“Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it’s because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It’s your mission on earth.”
“Choose the mountain you want to climb: don’t pay attention to what other people say, such as ‘that one’s more beautiful’ or ‘this one’s easier’.”
“If you have work instead of a job, every day is a holiday.”
“For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.”
“The real question is not, ‘Why greatness?’ but ‘What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness?’ If you have to ask the question, ‘Why should we try to make it great? Isn’t success enough?’ then you’re probably engaged in the wrong line of work.”
“They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.”
“You have to find the intersection of doing something you’re passionate about and that, at the same time, is in the service of other people. I would argue if you don’t find that intersection, you’re not going to be very happy.”
“Work takes on new meaning when you feel you are pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it’s just a job, and life is too short for that.”
“Think about what you’re passionate about. I did not learn something early enough: if I could go back, I’d tell the younger me that there’s a big difference between loving to work and loving the work.”
“Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue… as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.”
