Alain de Botton Quotes

I never knew anybody who was unhappy with their job and was happy with their life. It's your sense of purpose. Now, some people can find it elsewhere. Some people can work a job and find it some place else.

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader expectations as necessary evils. It's probably not as stressful as mining coal or leading men into battle.

When you're working and making money, that's all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.

The most rewarding thing is having a job that you love. It's not a luxury that everyone in this world enjoys.

I couldn't be happier with my career.

The way I see it is if I can't be happy doing this job, which is my dream job, then what's going to make me happy in life?

There's definitely a lot of moments in my life now where I go, 'Wow, I get paid for this.' I've had worse jobs.

Passion should meet your professional life, and I'm a living, breathing testament to that.

I love what I do; I want to continue doing it, I work hard at my job.

I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn't that a little like saving up sex for your old age?

We [actors] are so lucky to do jobs that fulfill us and make us happy. We don't go to work thinking okay, we're working to put food in the fridge. We are doing that too, but we're working because we love what we do.

It's perfectly possible to spend forty hours a week on a job that's meaningless, as long as you know what your real vocation is and find some way to express it. Then you won't confuse your job with the meaning of your life.

I am so blessed to be able to get up in the morning and go to a job I love, with fantastic people around me.

Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.

I just love what I do so much.

I don't want to spend my life doing jobs that I don't care about.

My career hadn't rocketed to the top of anything, but I've worked consistently and done things I've loved.

Make sure you love what you do or it will eat you alive.

When you've accomplished a certain amount in your career, you're not so focused on your ambitions.

My dad said 'When you love what you do, you never work a day in your life,' and I agree with that.

I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.

I love my job so much, and not everyone can say that and I recognize how lucky that is.

My life may be a pretty crazy life at times, but it's a very privileged one - being able to earn a good living doing what you love. Not many people have such an opportunity.

I still love doing what I do, and I'm really lucky to get up in the morning and want to go to work.