You probably won’t see a billionaire that doesn’t love his work, that’s why highly successful people are highly successful.
When you hate your line of work, you would rarely become successful at it — but loving your work would give you that extra push to give in your best.
These quotes about loving your work are quotes you should know today.
1. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” — Confucius
2. “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. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs
3. “To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.”— Sister Mary Lauretta
4. “I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.” – George Burns
5. “Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.” — Gautama Buddha
6. “This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” — Alan W. Watts
7. “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 you.” — Maya Angelou
8. “The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.” — Pearl S. Buck
9. “Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it … I have written because it fulfilled me … I did it for the buzz. I did it for the pure joy of the thing. And if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever.” — Stephen King
10. “The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else…The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!” – Earl Nightingale, Motivational Speaker
11. “Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.” – Joseph Campbell, American Mythologist, Writer, and Lecturer
12. “When you’re following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.” – Shakti Gawain, Pioneering Author & Teacher in the field of Personal Growth”
13. “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.” — Steve Jobs
14. “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” — Ella Fitzgerald
Love your work, they say, and work would become play. That’s the way to success.
Jake