Day Jobs Quotes

• Work hard at work worth doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Labor Day, Great Motivational

  Theodore Roosevelt (1967). “Writings”

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

  Steve Jobs

  Work, Believe, Loving What You Do

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

  71 Copy quote

  Show source

• Begin to live each day as if it was your last.

  Robin Sharma

  Leadership, Stanford University, Best Job

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.153, Jaico Publishing House

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  171 Copy quote

• For the past 33 years, 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

  82 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

  112 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Death, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• My demon is hating to have to do a regular day job. Being up on stage really helps me forget I have a life like that - when I did have a life like that. I find complete contentment and happiness when I'm playing in front of an audience.

  Steve "Lips" Kudlow

  Jobs, Hate, Contentment

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My dream was to not get a day job but to sleep, wake up and do my music. I want to keep that dream forever.

  Bruno Mars

  Dream, Jobs, Sleep

  43 Copy quote

• I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.

  Warren Beatty

  Jobs, Want, Beatty

  6 Copy quote

• I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to keep my day job too.

  Richard Marx

  Song, Jobs, Play

  6 Copy quote

• If there's anything better than a God-given talent, it's a God-given day job.

  Robert Breault

  Jobs, Talent, Given

  5 Copy quote

• I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job.

  Terrence Howard

  Jobs, Games, Acting

  6 Copy quote

• I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.

  David Remnick

  Jobs, Journalist, Consuming

  4 Copy quote

• I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.

  Katey Sagal

  Mom, Mother, Jobs

  Interview with Rachel Bertsche, www.oprah.com. August 17, 2009.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I feel that we are all philosophers, and that those who describe themselves as a 'philosopher' simply do not have a day job to go to.

  Kevin Warwick

  Jobs, Philosopher, Feels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  50 Copy quote

  Show source

• The guys have told me not to quit my day job.

  Garth Brooks

  Jobs, Guy, Quitting

  6 Copy quote

• Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck in those miserable day jobs writing reviews. Will somebody help them, please?

  David Ives

  Jobs, Writing, Design

  46 Copy quote

• If writing is your passion, write and don't let anyone else convince you otherwise. You don't need to quit your day job to do it. Create a realistic schedule and stick with it.

  Bindu

  Jobs, Writing, Passion

  7 Copy quote

• Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Jobs, Novelists, Males

  "Battle of the authors' sexes continues" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.

  Vikas Swarup

  Jobs, Writing, Weekend

  4 Copy quote

• Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I had to sneak off and do it in private.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Jobs, Fiction, Kind

  "Jennifer Weiner broadens from best-sellers to TV". Interview with Sandy Cohen, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. July 28, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't quit your day jobs, boys, but always keep your sense of humor.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Jobs, Boys, Sense Of Humor

  Source: www.foxnews.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job.

  Michael J. Fox

  Jobs, Order, Ironic

  Michael J. Fox (2011). “Always Looking Up”, p.29, Random House

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The TV show I do ['Dr Quinn'] is the day job that enables me to work with this theater [Pacific Resident Theatre Ensemble]. That's all I live for. That's what I care about. There's no dough in it. Nothing to do but lose money. But it's all from the heart, and that's why it's so much fun.

  Orson Bean

  Jobs, Fun, Heart

  6 Copy quote