Frances Hesselbein Quotes

I want to be in love with what I do at all times, and I want to stay in love.

I never thought that I would treasure doing my job, and I have reached that point. I've gotten to a point where it's like the priesthood: this is what I was called to do.

I feel very accomplished. It makes me feel great to know that I am impacting lives and of service to the world.

It's a privilege to do what I do for a living - to take people out of their miserable day, or to educate somebody, or make somebody laugh, or fall in love with an idea. How good is that? And I get paid to do it!

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

I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.

I don't look at things goin', 'Oh, is this gonna make me rich? Is this gonna make me a star? Am I gonna win awards?' If all that stuff happens, great. Who cares? I still have to wake up in the morning and go to work and be happy to do it.

I feel so thankful that I'm able to be a part of something that I love to wake up and run to work every day.

I never feel burdened or overwhelmed by my work. People tell you to find something you love for a career, and I have. That makes me feel very lucky.

Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night

You can't really ask for anything more than to be working for your entire life - and to be doing something that some people respond to.

I do work that I feel I have something to contribute to.

I love working. I love it! It makes me feel awake and alive and appreciative, as does my family, but in a different way. If I was told I couldn't do it, I think I would wither and die.

I love working. It gives you a reason to get up in the morning.

To be able to do what you truly love for a living is a gift.

Work has never really been work for me. It's been a natural extension of my life.

I love what I do; that is the foundation of whatever I do.

Basically, I should feel at the end of the day that I am doing something worthwhile.

There's a lot of American citizens out there that do jobs that they hate, day in and day out. For me to do what I love to do, with people that I like and enjoy being around who are chasing the same dream, same passions, to have that around you day in and day out, I think it says a lot.

You get to a point in life where you have to enjoy what you do when you come in every day.

That's the secret to happiness. Find something you can make money at that you really love to do.