100+ Do What You Love Quotes

The idea of “doing what you love” has become a popular notion in recent years. The basic concept is that we should pursue work and careers that align with our passions, interests, and values. Here are some key points and Do What You Love Quotes about why doing what you love matters:

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Fulfillment Comes From Within

Happiness and fulfillment ultimately come from within. While external rewards like money, status, or accolades may motivate us, true joy comes from intrinsic rewards: using our gifts and talents, feeling aligned with our purpose, and expressing our core values through our work. Doing what we love allows for more fulfillment.

Make Your Work An Expression of Your Identity

Our work becomes an expression of our identity. By making it something we authentically care about, we can pour more creativity, energy, and passion into it. Approaching work as an external chore drains us, while seeing it as an extension of ourselves energizes us.

Turn Passion Into Productivity

When we enjoy our work, it is easier to motivate ourselves, find flow states, and get into a productive groove. Time flies by when we’re doing activities we love. Passion boosts productivity far more than discipline or rewards can.

Live With More Vitality

Making work about things that light us up inside results in more energy and vitality. We feel inspired, driven, and alive. Even outside of working hours, we have more enthusiasm and joy for life. Doing what we love allows us to live more vibrantly overall.

Here are 100 quotes about finding purpose, passion, and fulfillment through loving what you do:

“Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.”
– Confucius

“The key is to fall in love with something. Anything. Then the effort you put into it seems like play.”
– Trip Hawkins

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
– Howard Thurman

“Love the life you live. Live the life you love.”
– Bob Marley

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
– Albert Schweitzer

“If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.”
– Marc Anthony

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
– Steve Jobs

“It’s not about money or connections — it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone when it comes to your business. And if it fails, you learn from what happened and do better next time.”
– Mark Cuban

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
– Aristotle

“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
– Barack Obama

“I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.”
– Thomas Edison

“When you work you fulfill a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.”
– Randall G Leighton

“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
– Bruce Lee

“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.”
– Andrew Carnegie

“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it’s within your reach. And it’ll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build.”
– Steve Wozniak

“Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.”
– Conan O’Brien

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And 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. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”
– Steve Jobs

“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
– Richard Branson

“If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.”
– William W. Purkey

“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”
– Buddha

“It’s not finding the time to do your dream that’s hard, it’s making the time when you don’t feel like it.”
– Jentezen Franklin

“Do something today that your future self will thank you for.”

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.”

“Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
– Wayne Gretzky

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
– Kurt Cobain

“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
– Jim Rohn

“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
– Bruce Lee

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
– Maya Angelou

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
– Neale Donald Walsch

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.”
– Napoleon Hill

“True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
– Mortimer J. Adler

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.”
– Jim Rohn

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”
– Aristotle

“Invest in your dreams. Grind now. Shine later.”

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
– George Lorimer

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
– Dale Carnegie

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
– Vincent Van Gogh

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
– Maya Angelou

“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell

“Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.”
– Vaibhav Shah

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
– Robert Collier

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
– Jim Rohn

“I didn’t fail 1,000 times. I successfully found 1,000 ways that did not work.”
― Thomas Edison

“The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything.”
― Warren Buffet

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.”
– Chris Grosser

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
― Albert Einstein

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
– Winston Churchill

“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.”
― Proverb

“Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy.”
― Tony O. Elumelu

“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
― Peter F. Drucker

“Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That’s the classic entrepreneur.”
― Mohnish Pabrai

“Growth and comfort do not coexist.”
― Ginni Rometty

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
― George Lorimer

“Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.”

“The key is to fall in love with something. Then the effort you put into it seems like play.”

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

“Love the life you live. Live the life you love.”

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

“If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.”

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.”

“It’s not about money or connections — it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone when it comes to your business. And if it fails, you learn from what happened and do better next time.”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”

“I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.”

“When you work you fulfill a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born.”

“Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.”

“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.”

“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”

“It’s not finding the time to do your dream that’s hard, it’s making the time when you don’t feel like it.”

“Do something today that your future self will thank you for.”

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”

“Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.”

“Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.”

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”

“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”

“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.”

“True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.”

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”

“Invest in your dreams. Grind now. Shine later.”

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it.”

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”

“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”

“Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.”

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving.”

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”

“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.”

“Success comes from perseverance and hard work.”

“If you like what you are doing, you will feel happy whether you succeed or fail.”

In summary, doing work you love that aligns with your purpose and passions is key to fulfillment and success. With grit and perseverance, you can achieve your dreams. These quotes provide inspiration to keep pursuing your goals and living life vibrantly.