Aaliyah Quotes

When you are doing what you love to do, you become resilient.

I didn't expect it was going to be easy. But hard work is a lot easier to tolerate when it's something you want to do instead of something you have no choice about.

If you're making something you're passionate about, it's not going to feel like work.

I learned that you have to fall in love with what you are doing and then you will enjoy it.

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it.

It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.

I'm still doing something I love to do.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

I used to tell my graduate students at Stanford, 'Don't worry about what job you have to pick because your job picks you. Let your job pick you. Find something you are passionate about. Then when you are passionate, be persistent. Just keep doing it for a while because progress is always hard work. It never rests in ideas.'

The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.

I just want to compete and do what I love.

And I love what I do and I love skating.

The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.

When you spend seven years of your life working on something that you're really passionate about, and other people end up loving it, too, that just makes all of the work worthwhile.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

To me, spending your life doing what you love is a gift. Everyone enjoys different walks of life, so find what you love to do and try to make a living at it.

Every day, I genuinely count my blessings. One of the greatest things in life is to do a job you really enjoy.

I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something.

If you work hard at anything, you're going to experience some success. And the greatest gift is when you have something you really love to do and you can integrate that into your work life. I feel like it's a real privilege that I get to do something that is good for my community and good for the world. But it's also pleasurable for me.

Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.

I love what I do. I do what I love. I'm honest about it!

No matter what you do, you should enjoy it. You should really find passion in it.

Happiness isn't for dabblers.