Marilyn French Quotes

I'm a firm believer that people find their own passions.

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

There's so many other things I want to do. I don't want to do them to be different or just for a challenge, but because my heart and soul tell me to.

The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.

The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny.

Creativity is connected to your passion, that light inside you that drives you. That joy that comes when you do something you love. That small voice that tells you, 'I like this. Do this again. You are good at it. Keep going.' That is the juicy stuff that lubricates our lives and helps us feel less alone in the world.

You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.

Your genius will shine through, and happiness will fill your life, the instant you discover your higher purpose and direct all your energies towards it.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.

When people ask me, 'Are you happy?' I respond with, 'You've asked the wrong question.' There is a deep kind of satisfaction you get from building a company. This kind of satisfaction transcends happy, sad, hard, or easy. I seek satisfaction. I want to be positively disruptive.

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

You pursue what you love, and if you find beauty or truth, you go with that.

My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.

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

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

What I have learnt is that it is important to pursue your passion more than your legacy; if you have a passion with a purpose, then everything else fits in.

Asked to give advice to a 13-year-old girl about how to lead her life, I say find something you love to do. The goal shouldn't be accumulating money. It might be making changes in the world, or in your country.

I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

In college, that was when I felt that acting is the one I really wanted because I got to be my true self; this is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.

What I have to do now is figure where my passion is, and follow my heart; I've proven that if I have the passion for something then I can succeed. I haven't been listening to my heart in the last little while.