33 Inspirational Quotes About the Importance of Loving Your Job
You’ve got one life to live, and considering that a full-time job will take up forty or more hours of your week, the importance of loving your job is one of the most vital components of a happy life.
Whether you’re looking to make your way into remote work, or whether you’ve been working remotely your entire life, here are 33 quotes that stress the gravity of enjoying what it is you do for a career.
1) “I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.” — Jon Stewart
2) “It’s not the days in your life, but the life in your days that counts.” — Brian White
3) “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” — Steve Jobs
4) “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” — Milton Berle
5) “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” — Alice Walker
6) “There is no passion to be found playing small — in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” — Nelson Mandela
7) “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
8) “Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
9) “Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.” — Gloria Steinem
10) “Work to become, not to acquire.” — Elbert Hubbard
11) “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” — Stephen Covey
12) “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” — Confucius
13) “Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” — Francis of Assisi
14) “The future depends on what you do today.” — Mahatma Gandhi
15) “A mind that is stretched by new experiences can never go back to its old dimensions.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
16) “Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you imagine it.” — George Lucas
17) “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” — Seth Godin
18) “Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.” — Katherine Whitehorn
19) “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
20) “Desire! That’s the one secret of every man’s career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.” — Johnny Carson
21) “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot
22) “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” — Albert Einstein
23) “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” — Sheryl Sandberg
24) “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” — Chris Grosser
25) “You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.” — Confucius
26) “The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” — M. Scott Peck
27) “It’s not what you achieve, it’s what you overcome. That’s what defines your career.” — Carlton Fisk
28) “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” — Beverly Sills
29) “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Abraham Lincoln
30) “When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there.” — Cecil Selig
31) “If you don’t feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated.” — Paul F. Davis
32) “Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy.” — Paulo Coelho
33) “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” — Les Brown
This article was originally published on Remote.com
