Melody Beattie Quotes

All glory is fleeting. And, If you do not love what you do, don't do it.

I was always told to avoid being famous just for being famous. That's something that has always stuck in my mind. I like to work. It helps if you like what you do.

If you’re doing something you love with people you love in a place you love, you are going to create something of value to the world.

All work is empty save when there is love.

I don't have to work another day of my life, thank God, but I'm in a place where I probably work as hard or harder today than I ever have, but I do it because I want to, not because I have to. What is the difference between work and play? I think the difference is purpose. When your vocation becomes your vacation, the old quote, you know that's when you made it.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love. That's it. Don't worry about making a living, don't worry about popularity or fame. Make what you do ... count more than what you own.

When you love what you do, it pays off, and that's the best reward you could have.

The Josh Brolin character in that movie [Hail, Caesar!], he's given a choice to leave, to do something where he wouldn't have to work as hard. And he'd rather work and deal with the madness of what he's doing because it thrills him, because it gives him meaning.

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.

I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

To do this job, you really have to love what you're doing.

I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, 'I'd rather starve than do a whole bunch of work that I don't care about.' The older I got, the more I understood what he was saying. If I want to do a whole lot of work that I don't care about, then I would probably be working in a law office somewhere.

It's not every day you get to do what you love and have a major story behind it.

I'm very lucky that I love what I do. I've never thought of it as work. I've never done it for the money.

I'm still doing something I love to do.

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

I love what I do, so I don't mind working.

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.

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

Almost any job can make us better human beings if we do it with passion.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

It's not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of.

Because, you know, it's never a hard work when you enjoy yourself. Look, I've been here since 57 years, and I don't have to explain why I've stayed so long. I always enjoyed it.