Earl Nightingale Quotes

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

I don't think you can say yes to every opportunity and work the weekends and work the overnight shift unless you're really passionate about your job. So I encourage everyone to find their passion and go for it.

Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.

I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

And the reason I came to IBM was I think - I always say at a really early age, I learned you've got to be passionate about what you do. No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices.

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.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

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.'

I've worked every day since I was 10. I don't know how to do anything else. There is nothing else I'd rather be doing.

If there is a job that you feel passionate about, do what you can to pursue that job; if there is a purpose about which you are passionate, dedicate yourself to that purpose.

You've got to love what you do. You've got to like doing it, because it is a lot of your life.

I don't mind working long hours, because I enjoy doing that. The way to make myself happy is to work long hours.

I need to love what I do, because I'm going to give 110 percent. I'm going to be working from 6 in the morning until 10 P.M., so I need to make sure I like it.

I definitely work a lot, but I love it.

I often work seven days a week. I'm not looking for a pat on the back because I love what I do.

I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

You should just enjoy it, but as soon as you decide that it is going to be your career, no matter whether you want to be a doctor or an architect or anything else, you need to work 5 hours a day.

I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.

I accept a role only if it's something I really, really like.

I love what I do. I work a lot, I work all the time, but I love it.

I know I'll always work. In what form, it really doesn't matter.

You have to love the doing of what you're doing and not wait for the phone to ring.

I love what I do, so I don't mind working.

I keep on working when other people are out having fun. But I love what I do and find it hard to stop.