Denis Waitley Quotes

So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.

If you can build your career around your passions, then you're winning in life; that's one of the best things you can ask for.

I feel very lucky that I make a living doing what I always wanted to do.

I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.

Find your passion is in life, and do what you can to integrate that into your work life. That's not to say you won't have occasional frustrations in your job - that just goes with the territory - but at least you'll feel better inside, and that, over time, will mean more to you than you might think.

I made a promise to myself when I graduated from law school that I would never do anything that I didn't enjoy doing, and almost every day of the year since that June of 1963, I have awakened glad that I was going to work, glad that I was going to court, glad that I was going to grapple with a problem.

My career is my whole life, so if I'm not happy with that, it affects everything else.

I encourage others to choose a career they are passionate about and can do for the rest of their lives.

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

My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'

The ultimate dream in life is to be able to do what you love and learn something from it.

If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.

People who are passionate about what they do reach financial comfort and wealth more often than those who are not. That argues for doing one of two things. Finding your passion and pursuing it. Or becoming passionate about what you're already pursuing.

I know it's cliche to say, 'When you do something you love you never work a day in your life.' But it is true: When you do something you love, life gets to be a little bit easier and enjoyable. So I just want people to follow their dreams.

If it was really successful, it was a life calling, a career I was excited about doing, so I didn't think the overall risk was anywhere near as high as what the reward was.

I have the distinct pleasure of doing exactly what I want to do and get paid for it. It's a joy.

I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this.

It's so cool for me to do what I love to do for a living and meet people from all over the world.

I get paid to do the thing I love most, and maybe that makes blending into the crowd impossible sometimes, but I wouldn't trade it for the world.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.

A lot of people don't enjoy their job, they may even hate it, but I am lucky enough to be able to make a living through my passion.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.