Kalpana Chawla Quotes

The truest drive comes from doing what you love.

Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.

I don't believe in strategies. I love what I am doing; that's the main thing.

I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

If the work is good, what does it matter? I'm doing it because I love it. Why not do as many things I love as I can? As long as the work is good.

I'm in this wonderful place of life, where everything I'm doing is something I do because I enjoy it.

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.

A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.

I couldn't do anything I didn't enjoy.

I do things that I actually love and understand.

I do not just play for money.

I never considered myself an entertainer. I always felt I had to be connected to something meaningful, or it wasn't worth doing.

For me, more than general box-office collections, what really matters is that I am doing something that I enjoy and love.

I actually think most people do what they love because it's really important to them.

You have to have the fire in your belly. I'm having more fun now with acting than I did when I first started out, because I'm doing it just because I really enjoy it. I'm not trying to "make it" anymore. I'm not trying to be anything, you know? The biggest this and that for anybody. I'm just enjoying it.

The secret is to find what you love to do.I mean, I tell the students look for the job that you would take if you didn't need a job. I mean, it's that simple. And I was lucky enough to find it very early in life. And then the second thing is to have people around you that make feel good every day, and make you a better person than you otherwise would be.

I learned one thing; you never do anything for fame or money. You only do things 'cause they're fun or good. If you can combine the two at the same time, you can make a contribution to the world and have a lot of happiness.

The only advice my Dad's given me is: If you ain't having fun, it ain' working, so always have fun with what you're doing. If you don't love it then there's no reason to do it. And don't do it for fame or money- do it because it's something that you feel is right.

It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.

If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Find something else, life's too short.

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

The way to stay inspired and motivated is by doing what you like, doing what you love.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that.