Have you found something in this life that
you're passionate about? Something that inspires you to jump out of bed in the
morning and hit the ground running? And does your passion help create a better
world for you and for others? If you can answer "yes" to these
questions, then you are both fortunate and wise.
Unfortunately, too many of us have become intensely passionate about the things
that improve neither the world nor ourselves. We may fritter away precious hours
in front of the television. Or we may become more passionate about our favorite
sports team than we are about our chosen profession. Or we may fall deeply in
love with alcohol, drugs, gambling, or other addictive behaviors that leave
little time and energy for anything else.
The world erects no monuments to couch potatoes. But, if
you're passionate about a worthy cause and you're willing to work for it, then
you possess the principle tool for leadership, and you possess the
principle energy source for success. So keep searching for a passionate pursuit
that is worthy of the life God has given you.
Have you heard of the game called Trivial Pursuit? It's
a wonderful game to play, but it's a terrible way to live.
Find Your
Passion and Follow It
"Every man without passions has within him no
principle of action, nor motive to act."
Claude Adrien Helvétius
"Work for your soul’s sake."
Edgar Lee Masters
"When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is
slavery."
Maxim Gorky
"Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid."
Lady Bird Johnson
"Chase your passion, not your pension…then you’ll awake every
morning with the passion of pursuit, not the pursuit of money."
Edward James Olmos
Make Your Work Your
Passion
"The first thing a business leader needs is the love
of an idea."
Ray Kroc
"A man must get happiness out of his work. That’s the first of his
problems: to find the work he is meant to do in this world. Without work he
enjoys, he can never know what happiness is."
Thomas Carlyle
"When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is
slavery."
Maxim Gorky
"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better you
should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those
who work with joy."
Kahlil Gibran
"The man who is born with a talent which he is meant to use finds his
greatest happiness in using it."
Goethe
Whatever Your
Stage, Perform With Passion
"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."
John Ruskin
"If you don't like it, stop doing it. Never continue in a job you don't
enjoy."
Johnny Carson
"Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow
it."
Joseph Campbell
"Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always
be explained away."
Harold S Geneen
"Always leave them wanting more."
George M. Cohen
Love What You Do Or Do Something Else
"If you’re not happy every morning when you get up and leave for work,
you’re not going to be successful."
Donald M. Kendall
"A job is something that you do for money. A career is something you do
because you are inspired to do it."
Edward James Olmos
"If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted
to do. You can't expect more from life."
Bruce Lee
"What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career
you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your opportunities. And be a
member of the team."
Ben Franklin
Find Your Passion
and Follow It
"Get absolutely enthralled with something. Throw
yourself into it with abandon. Get out of yourself. Be somebody. Do
something."
Norman Vincent Peale
"Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man must get happiness out of his work. That’s the first of his
problems: to find the work he is meant to do in this world. Without work he
enjoys, he can never know what happiness is."
Thomas Carlyle
"To have long-term success as a coach or any other position of leadership,
you have to be obsessed in some way."
Pat Riley
"The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it requires."
Logan Pearsall Smith
"Unless what you’re doing is the greatest single passion in
your life, you ought to move on before being asked."
Bob Costas
This
page was written and compiled by Criswell Freeman, Psy.D