Theo James Quotes

I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.

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

I know I'll always work. In what form, it really doesn't matter.

For most people, life would be boring without meaningful work.

I used to think that I wanted to be a hat maker, but I don't think that would have worked out.

I always grapple with myself, from job to job, 'Is this going to make an impact in some way?'

I worked in finance for 14 years, and I loved it. But after the financial industry, I thought a lot about, 'Do I love what I'm doing?'

I feel like there are some careers that do have a higher meaning.

To make a living is no longer enough. Work also has to make a life.

For myself, I can't understand a life without a job. I don't know what I would do without employment. Retirement is out of the question for me.

You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it - because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?

I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.

I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.

It shouldn't just be about money. It should be about loving what you do.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.

My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.

I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful.

Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.

I want to do work that means something to me so that when I go to work at the theater eight times a week, I want to be there.

People don't just come to work to make money; they need satisfaction.

The character I play in Star Quality says acting is the be-all and end-all of her life. I'm not like that. I do enjoy working and I give every job my best shot but I never feel, What on Earth am I going to do now?