Orison Swett Marden Quotes

I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.

The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.

If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I think you will find out that it's meaningless.

The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

The most important lesson I've learned is how rich and rewarding life is when one can engage in meaningful work, whether on the job or outside of work.

All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

The truest drive comes from doing what you love.

I had lost my way for some time, so I need to do things that I am happy with. It's not about being the number one heroine or money. It's about doing roles that I enjoy. My biggest ambition is happiness.

To me, spending your life doing what you love is a gift. Everyone enjoys different walks of life, so find what you love to do and try to make a living at it.

You only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?

Everyone wants that sense of fulfilling a purpose in some way.

I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.

I've said that if you're not doing something that you're passionate about, you're compromising yourself every single day.

I want to live a fulfilling life.

I'm very ambitious. But my overall goal, above ambition, is that I want to be happy with what I'm doing, and I want to be happy with myself.

The choice is yours: Do you want to exist, or do you want to live?

Real happiness comes from discovering a sense of importance in one's actions and in one's life.

I wanted a fulfilling life, what every person wants. And then I just made a decision to leave music to venture out and go after what it is I always wanted, and that was total life prosperity.

I actually think most people do what they love because it's really important to them.

I've been saying to people for a long time, 'If you're not doing something you're tremendously excited about, and you're not feeling passionate about it, you're compromising yourself every day.'

The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.

If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.

You may have success in life, but then just think of it - what kind of life was it? What good was it - you've never done the thing you wanted to do in all your life. I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.