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Getting up in the morning and having work you love is what makes life different for people. If you get into a position where you don't love what you're doing, get off it.
Sep 24, 2025
You are meant to succeed in the work you love. Your desire will take you all the way.
Without work all life goes rotten.
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
The only thing you should have to do is find work you love to do. And I can't imagine living without having loved a person. A man, in my case. It could be a woman, but whatever. I think, what I always tell kids when they get out of class and ask, 'What should I do now?' I always say, 'Keep a low overhead. You're not going to make a lot of money.' And the next thing I say: 'Don't live with a person who doesn't respect your work.' That's the most important thing—that's more important than the money thing. I think those two things are very valuable pieces of information.
Do what you love, but be damned sure it's profitable. If you do work you love, but it doesn't generate income, your business will fail. If you do work you hate, but it generates income, your health will fail... and your business along with it. If you can't do what you love and make it profitable, you've either got a hobby or a headache, not a sustainable business. Don't settle for anything less than passion and profit.
Do work you love and are passionate about, look outside of the world of graphic design for inspiration.
Do work you love, in which you can excel: The smaller the gap between who you are in your personal life and who you are at work, the happier you will be.
Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?
I think that a good education ought to be in part the idea that ease and joy are not synonymous. Some of the most fulfilling pleasures of life are to be found in work - found in work you love to do, work you want to do, work that makes you want to get out of bed in the morning.
If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.
Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.
Never go into debt to become a writer. Always find other ways to support yourself so you can do the work you truly love for the right reasons. Never ask your art to support you. If you ask your art to support you it will either end up comprised or you'll be disappointed with it. It's a lot to ask of creativity for it to provide for you financially. Find a scrappy way to get by and then do the work you love for the reasons you love.
I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Do you want a successful career or a close relationship with your family? Both! Do you want a focus on business or have fun and play? Both! Do you want money or meaning in your life? Both! Do you want to earn a fortune or do the work you love? Both! Poor people always choose one, rich people choose both.
The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers -- of persistence, concentration, and insight -- to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems. make art, think deeply.
Doing work you love is the dizzying path of saying yes to yourself and yes to a brilliant, hidden self you do not yet know.
If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace.
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.
Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
You've got to find what you love.
For the past 33 years, 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.
Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.
Are you bored with life? Then 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.
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.
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.
Work like you don't need the money.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work
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. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
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 of you.
My philosophy has always been, do what you love and the money will follow.
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.