Passion

“Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.” ~ Amiel

“True success – financial, personal, and professional – lies above all in loving your family, working hard, and living your passion.  In telling your story.  In authenticity, hustle, and patience.  In caring fiercely about the big and the small stuff.  In valuing legacy over currency.” ~ Gary Vaynerchuk

“Someone with less passion and talent and poorer content can totally beat you if they’re willing to work longer and harder than you are. Hustle is it.” ~ Gary Vaynerchuk

“Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground.  Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it…” ~ Wilferd Peterson

“Effort is one of the things that gives meaning to life.  Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it.  It would be an impoverished existence if you were not willing to value things and commit yourself to working toward them.” ~ Carol Dweck

You need not see what someone is doing

to know if it is his vocation,

you have only to watch his eyes:

a cook mixing a sauce, a surgeon

making a primary incision,

a clerk completing a bill of lading,

wear the same rapt expression, forgetting

themselves in a function.

How beautiful it is,

that eye-on-the-object look.

~ W. H. Auden