Chin-Ning Chu Quotes

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

A job is something we do to get a paycheck and pay our bills. Jobs are legitimate, at times, but work is why we are here in the universe. Work and calling often go together.

The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.

That's what we're all looking for, the place where the work leads us.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

When I started making music, I was like, 'This is something I can believe I was meant to do.'

I don't have much in life but my work is what makes me alive.

Not everyone has a Life's Work. Some people simply have a Life.

We may at times be unemployed, but no one ever becomes uncalled.

Your career is what you're paid for. Your calling is what you're made for.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

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

Maybe it sounds like I'm splitting hairs here but I don't wanna perform for a living, I wanna live for a living.

For years and years I have done the work I was born for.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.

Working is living to me.

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, 'What makes me come alive?' Because what the world - a wife, a child - needs is men who have come alive.

I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved, and that pursuit is writing. This means, conveniently enough, that I never had to search for my destiny; I only had to obey it.

The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness