Anita Roddick Quotes

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.

I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'

I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.

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.

Pursuing your passion is fulfilling and leads to financial freedom.

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.

I don't want to work to make money. I want to work to work.

My life goal is to find a nice balance between working for money and working for fulfillment.

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.

Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.

I want to be in love with what I do at all times, and I want to stay in love.

I do want to be able to benefit from my work and make a good living, but I love it so much that I would do it for free.

Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.

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

If you make money, you might not make meaning.

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

Make sure you love what you do or it will eat you alive.

I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.

I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.

If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

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 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.

If you can build your career around your passions, then you're winning in life; that's one of the best things you can ask for.