A good job is a lot like a great love affair. In it’s early stages just the very thought of it can quicken your pulse, lighten your step and cause you to endure moments of excruciating awkwardness until you’ve got the hang of what you’re doing.
You could spend years searching for “the one” – the job that you were meant to do; the job that somehow… completes you. But like finding true love, a successful job search requires a lot of patience, resilience and wisdom.
In a way, you’ve got to be a true romantic to hold out for your dream job after so many setbacks and false starts. So in honor of the lovers and fighters out there this Valentine’s Day, here are some inspiring words of wisdom about the special love between a man or woman and their job.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. –Confucius
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. –Rumi
If you love your work, you’ll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you –like a fever.
– Sam Walton
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. –Walt Disney
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. –Khalil Gibran
Creativity itself doesn’t care at all about results – the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless.
–Elizabeth Gilbert
Every man loves what he is good at. –Thomas Shadewell
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
–Henry David Thoreau
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. –Pablo Picasso
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end. –Ramakrishna
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. –John Ruskin
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. –Dale Carnegie
