Top 60 Do What You Love Quotes

With time I have a collection of many awe-inspiring do-what-you-love quotes.

My mother recalls that one of my first favorite books was a quotation book. I select the ones right for what I need and can read them over and over to let their wisdom sink in. They still encourage me to this day to follow my bliss and go for my dreams.

Quotes are fantastic to put succinctly and almost magically great truths. They resonate at our core when we agree and it seems they leave a life-changing imprint. They give a boost when you’re unsure about the path to take, you need some more motivation or had a tough day.

Sure thing, these quotes related to do what you love are stimulating. You have the option to tweet your favorites as you read or share the whole post with your favorite social media below. Enjoy!

1. Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
- David Frost

2. We have just one life. Live your life to the fullest, give the best in everything, do what you love, regret and fear nothing.
- Unknown

3. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs

4. Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
- David Frost

5. A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
-Bob Dylan 

6. If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
- Billy Joel, American Pianist, Singer and Song Writer 

7. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

8. Do what you love, and the money will follow.
- Rev. Run, Marsha Sinetar, Amy Weber

9. Do what you love and the business will follow.
- Michael Fortin

10. Follow your passion, and success will follow you.
- Arthur Buddhold

11. Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.
- Ella Fitzgerald 

12. Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
- Hardy D.Jackson 

13. Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
- Dr. Wayne Dyer 

14. Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you’re gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.
- Barbara Sher  

15. Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
- Buddha 

16. You’ve got to love what you do to really make things happen.
- Philip Green

17. I love acting. But I love being a mother. To be a full mother and a full person, you have to do what you love, and that’s acting. But I like the best of both worlds.
- Tracey Gold

18. I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
- Judy Collins 

19. Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You’ll be an old man before you know it.
-Al Lopez 

20. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau

21. I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau

22. Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.
- Harvey MacKay 

23. I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can’t do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I’m going to do something, I go all the way.
- Tom Cruise

24. People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
- Samuel Butler 

25. If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
- John Cleese 

26. The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
-Logan Pearsall Smith 

27. I never worked a day in my life. It’s not work when you love what you’re doing.
- David Shakarian

28. I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.
- Thomas A. Edison 

29. When work is a pleasure, life is joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
- Maxim Gorky

30. The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.
- Mark Twain (adapted)

31. I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself:”If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
- Steve Jobs

32. One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
- Dale Carnegie

33. Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. 
- Joseph Addison 

34. 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

35. Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; loves does not brag, and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly. It does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth, bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

36. Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau 

37. Do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and don’t pick your nose.
- Jeff Mallett 

38. What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
- Julia Camero

39. What I know is that if you do what you work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
- Oprah Winfrey

40. All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
-T. E. Lawrence

41. Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

42. All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
-Walt Disney 

43. Do what you love. When you love your work, you become the best worker in the world.
-Uri Geller

44. Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is Love, enjoy it!
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Indian spiritual leader

45. Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
- Jane Goodall 

46. If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.
- Jane Goodall 

47. The most important thing is to actually think about what you do. To become aware and actually think about the effect of what you do on the environment and on society. That’s key, and that underlies everything else.
- Jane Goodall

48. Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa 

49. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa 

50. Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.  The way it actually works is the reverse.  You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
-Margaret Young

51. Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.
- Steve Jobs 

52. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
-Steve Jobs 

53. If you love what you do, there are no difficult tasks, only interesting ones.
- Vadim Kotelnikov 

54. I believe that if you do what you love, things tend to fall in place.
- Sarah Camp 

55. You’ve got to find what you love. 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

56. The secret of success in life, and subsequently of making money, is to enjoy your work. If you do, nothing is hard work – no matter how many hours you put in.
- Billy Butlin 

57. One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.
- Jeff Bezos

58. Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
- Johnny Carson

59. The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
- Malcolm Forbes 

60. The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
- Oprah Winfrey 

May those quotes inspire you too to take the plunge to do what you love or move forward in your existence and vocation!