Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for.

Don't chase the money... chase the passion. Because that's what is going to keep you happy and motivated and jumping out of that bed Monday morning.

The deepest instinct is to want to do something enduring, something worthwhile, and to be engaged by that, whether one achieves it or not.

You know that feeling when you wake up in the morning and you're excited for the day? That's one of my main goals in life.

And my only rule being if when I wake in the morning I'm looking forward to the things that I have to do that day, then I'm on the right track.

We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose. These are our passions.

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

My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that.

I've got passion, and for people who don't, I make them see how trite their lives are.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

That never stops. That's what drives you: the joy and excitement of doing what you love.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

I believe that the only way to truly be fulfilled, the only way to truly be the person that God created us to be, is to live in our passion, is to do what we're passionate about. It changes everything about us.

It is always thrilling to attempt something new and it feels great when your efforts are awarded positively.

I just want to be a part of something exciting, that's all.

Life's too short to be spending all your waking hours doing something you're not excited about. And when people are that excited, you can see it in the work.

What inspires me in life? The idea that the work and the rewards and the process is the thing.

A goal is the basic unit of life design.

If you don't have a dream in life, I don't know what you have. You have to want something beyond your reach; it's exciting when it works out.

And we need things in life that are exciting and inspiring. It can't just be about solving some awful problem. There have to be reasons to get up in the morning.

Passion is the fire, enthusiasm and courage that an individual feels when she is doing something she loves while accomplishing worthy ends, something that satisfies her deepest needs.

To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death.

Do something that you love. Whatever you're going to do is going to be tough enough. Find something that gets you so excited that the sun can't come up early enough in the morning because you want to go do your thing.