Eckhart Tolle Quotes

The majority of people consider their work a means to an end. People who work for money only come to the end faster than people who are involved in their life’s purpose every day.

I don't see the point in working just to be working.

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.

I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.

No-one works for money alone and tapping into what people want from their careers and what they have to offer is essential.

It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.

But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project.

I'm overwhelmed by and in awe of the work that I do. I adore my work. I live to work.

I don't think I've worked a day in my life.

I came from a family that loved what they did every day, and they never stopped.

The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would not feel that they were working for low ends, as for a livelihood merely, but for scientific, or even moral ends. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things happen) is much more satisfying then just getting a paycheck and waiting to get fired (or die).

We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.

It seems to me, that's the only thing that ends up being really fulfilling or satisfying - your career.

I can see my work as a job. I do it for money. I likely already look forward to the weekend on Thursdays. And I probably will need a hobby as a leveling mechanism. In a career, I'm definitely more engaged. But at the same time, there will be periods when I think, 'Is all that really hard work really worth my while?'

I only am in this business because I enjoy it. I think that is the only way to be in the business.

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.

My dad said 'When you love what you do, you never work a day in your life,' and I agree with that.

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

What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.

My work is a love for me; I'd do it for free, but don't tell my bosses.

I really enjoy my time off. If I'm going to go to work, it has to be something I really believe in, or else it's totally tedious.

I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

I love what I do. I work a lot, I work all the time, but I love it.