Loving What You Do Quotes:

Everything is worth it. The hard work, the times when you're tired, the times where you're a bit sad... In the end, it's all worth it because it really makes me happy. There's nothing better than loving what you do.

- Aaliyah

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Work, Tired, Loving What You Do

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 pure joy of the things. And if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever.

- Stephen King

source: "On Writing". Book by Stephen King, December 1999.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Loving What You Do, Pure Joy, Dough

Fame is a by-product. It's not a goal. What matters is loving your work and loving what you do

- Madonna Ciccone

topic: What Matters, Loving What You Do, Goal

I never had a plan, except to write. I love what I do, and have from the beginning. Loving what you do makes it a lot easier to work, every day, to face the tough spots and heel in for the long haul. Nothing against plans; they work for some people. But for me, if I'd been planning, worrying about numbers, trying to micro-manage my career, I wouldn't have focused on the writing. If you don't write, you're not read. If you're not read, you don't sell. So that's my Master Plan, I guess. Write the books, let the agent agent, the editor edit, the publisher publish.

- Nora Roberts

topic: Book, Writing, Loving What You Do, Long Haul

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

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Joy In Work, Joy Of Living

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

topic: Love, Inspirational, Motivational, Empowering Women, Powerful Women

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.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Way In Life

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.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Last Day, Innovation Inspiration

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Love, Motivational, Family, Job Satisfaction, Joy In Work

I've been driven all my life by a spirit of adventure and a criminal level of optimism. I believed in my dreams because they were my only option. The people who make it to the top are addicted to their calling. You have to honor the gift God has given you. The people who get the call are the ones who'd be doing whatever it is they love, even if they weren't being paid.

- Quincy Jones

source: Quincy Jones (2002). “Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones”, p.266, Three Rivers Press

topic: Dream, Adventure, People, Spirit Of Adventure, Loving What You Do

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.

- Johnny Carson

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Career, Inspired To Work

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

- Rumi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Inspired To Work, Sufi Mystic

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.

- Judy Collins

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking, Keep Your Faith, Loving What You Do

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.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Love, Inspirational, Motivational, Joy In Work, Inspired To Work

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.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Law, Love Your Work, Loving What You Do

Finding and creating your life's work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more happiness and health than any other action you can take. If your primary responsibility in life is being true to yourself, that can only be accomplished by carrying out what you are called to do - your unique and special vocation...Your life's work involves doing what you love and loving what you do.

- Dennis Kimbro

topic: Peace, Responsibility, Passion, Loving What You Do, Creating Your Life

Play because it's fun, and not to become a pro. If your goal is to become pro, the best way to realize that is by loving what you do.

- Steve Nash

topic: Fun, Play, Goal, Loving What You Do

I don't think life owes me anything and the business doesn't owe me anything. The only way to approach it is by working hard and loving what you do. If you do that and have faith, maybe you will get lucky. I mean that sincerely and specifically. I truly believe that no professional career in the arts is capable without a healthy dose of luck.

- Bryan Cranston

source: "Exclusive: Bryan Cranston Talks BREAKING BAD Season 3 and 4, TOTAL RECALL, DRIVE, ROCK OF AGES, LARRY CROWNE & LINCOLN LAWYER". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 1, 2011.

topic: Art, Believe, Mean, Professional Career, Loving What You Do

I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking, Loving What You Do

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.

- Compay Segundo

topic: Dedication, Years, Secret, Loving What You Do

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.

- Steve Jobs

source: "Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple - A Journey of Adventure, Ideas, and the Future" by John Sculley and John A. Byrne, (p. 157), 1987.

topic: Memorable, Best Job, Pirate, Better Jobs, Loving What You Do

Being blessed with good health gives you the strength and loving what you do and - is a privilege that keeps you going. So I'm just happy as a lark.

- Betty White

topic: Blessed, Giving, Privilege, Loving What You Do

Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast.

- Wes Borland

topic: Knives, Records, Fantastic, Loving What You Do

Getting up in the morning and loving what you do is a dream come true.

- Elie Tahari

topic: Dream, Morning, Dreams Come True, Loving What You Do

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

- Randy Travis

topic: Patience, Importance, Loving What You Do

Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.

- Ken Robinson

topic: Passion, Self, Aptitude, Loving What You Do, Authentic Self

Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.

- Seth Godin

topic: Doing What You Love, Important, Needs, Loving What You Do

Loving what you do is the secret to everything.

- Julia Roberts

topic: Secret, Loving What You Do