Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Work takes on new meaning when you feel you are pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it's just a job, and life is too short for that.

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

Pursuing your passion is fulfilling and leads to financial freedom.

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.

I hope that in 5 years from now I'll be working and doing what makes me happy. Whatever that may be.

The most important lesson I've learned is how rich and rewarding life is when one can engage in meaningful work, whether on the job or outside of work.

I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.

I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised there was something massively lacking in my life, and a non-contributory pension and a subsidised canteen could not fill it.

The character I play in Star Quality says acting is the be-all and end-all of her life. I'm not like that. I do enjoy working and I give every job my best shot but I never feel, What on Earth am I going to do now?

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.

You don't need to be defined by your job.

As long as I can apply my craft, I'm 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.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

Work has never really been work for me. It's been a natural extension of my life.

You learn very quickly where you feel fulfilled and where you don't.

You have to know what you want out of your work or out of your life.

If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I think you will find out that it's meaningless.

One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm interested in? Is it something I enjoy?

I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction.

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfilled ambition.

Business is not the aim of life; it's a game.