Louis Armstrong Quotes

I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion.

It's getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work... I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

I don't want to do anything that I'm not passionate about.

I don't really think they saw anything in me, except the fact that I was interested in it. Some of the kids would miss a week here and miss a week there, I think they could see that I really enjoyed it.

Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.

Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing

So long as I'm relevant, and so long as my health permits and people still want me, I will continue.

'Be in' is all about passion. Life is short. There are so many interesting things we can do in our life, and I feel like if someone is just kind of showing up, it's not worth it for them or for us.

When you walk into a movie theater, you don't walk out half-way through, and then come back the next day to watch the rest of it.

If you are interested in what you do, that keeps you going!

All good things require effort. That which is worth having will cost part of your physical being, your intellectual power and your soul power. Let us ever keep in mind that life is largely what we make it.

The best advice I could give anyone is to spend your time working on whatever you are passionate about in life.

95% of being a success in the competitive world of fashion is just showing up on time and being there. I don't know how I knew that when I was younger. You have to stick around for people to remember you.

It's perfectly possible to spend forty hours a week on a job that's meaningless, as long as you know what your real vocation is and find some way to express it. Then you won't confuse your job with the meaning of your life.

45 years is a long time to do anything, let alone for a rock band to play together. I'm proud of what we've accomplished and proud that we've kept the high standards.

If you work without love, you are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor. Your work is your joy, your work is your dance.

If it takes a hundred years, it will be a pity, but I will not cease to work for it as long as I live.

Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.

To love is to be engaged is to work is to be interested is to create.

As long as I have my legs and commitment to the team, then I'll keep playing.

I'm kind of the long-hauler type of person. I also have a strong work ethic and gratitude for people that I work with.

I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make.

If I can stay [involved] with the sport, we can find different ways to motivate people and preach to them and explain to them that all they need is dedication to the sport.

I would like to continue acting. I tell people I can't go back to real life. I have to see how far I can go with it. I am serious about it, and I believe that it's my calling. I think it's what my life's path is. It's what God has given me. It's what I was born to do. And so I must do it.