Robert Fulghum Quotes

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

I never knew anybody who was unhappy with their job and was happy with their life. It's your sense of purpose. Now, some people can find it elsewhere. Some people can work a job and find it some place else.

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

The money, the fame, if that comes, that's fantastic. But at the end of the day, my aim is to go to sleep at night content and have a purpose, and to know that I'm not swapping my life for money and some mind-numbing boring job, making easy money and protecting my brain.

I don't want to spend my life doing jobs that I don't care about.

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work.

I have a lot of friends who get up most mornings and go to jobs they absolutely hate. I don't think that's what life is about and I'm so fortunate that I actually love what I do.

Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.

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.

For most people, life would be boring without meaningful work.

You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better.

When you're working and making money, that's all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

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.

There's a trend for people wanting more meaning in their work and pursuing something in the day-to-day that is valuable rather than working as a means to the end.

Passion should meet your professional life, and I'm a living, breathing testament to that.

I learned from my parents that you have to get pleasure out of what you're doing, or don't do it.

There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.

It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.

If work is just going in every day and getting a check, it's an ugly life. When you can make work a meaningful purpose, you've hit the jackpot for people.

Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two... Work is an expression of life.