J. Carter Brown Quotes

I was lucky enough to know exactly what I wanted to do when I was growing up. I think one of the hardest things to figure out in life is what your calling is, and what truly makes you happy - not what you want to work at, but what you want to do.

I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.

Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.

If you do the things you enjoy and are good at, I really have a feeling that that will lead to having a fulfilling life, and people with fulfilling lives are able to be 'good people.'

I've found my place in life, that I'm passionate about, my talents and my passion have merged, and I'm trying to do the best that I can.

50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point?

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

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

Drama made me happy. Being on stage made me feel alive. But I did what a lot of people do, and that's follow this path of leaving school and going to university. It was only at university that I realised the only thing that would make me a satisfied man was to do what I loved.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

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

My parents always told me, 'Do what you love because that is what you will do well in.' They told me to make sure that you are happy.

I don't want to do anything that I'm not passionate about.

We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships.

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

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

I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.

I would like my kids to follow their bliss.

It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

Life is too short to be doing work that doesn't make you feel happy and fulfilled. I'd rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me.

The book 'Do You!' is about your inner voice. And when you connect to that voice then you - then the freedom comes. And we're only here to be happy. So happy makes money. Money doesn't make happy.

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

You only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?

As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.

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.