Follow your dreams? Maybe, maybe not…
We’ve all heard it since we were young—follow your dreams! While this can be applied to most areas of life, it is also applicable to your business success. But it’s more than just following your dreams. It’s also about tapping into your passions and using it as motivation, direction, and inspiration.
Here are ten inspirational quotes about following your dreams and using your passion to achieve professional success.
Obstacles
“One of the things that may get in the way of people … is that they’re not in touch with their passion. If you’re passionate about what it is you do, then you’re going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it.” – Jack Canfield
Perseverance
“If you want to be successful in a particular field or endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities. It’s very important that you find something that you care about, that you have a deep passion for, because you’re going to have to devote a lot of your life to it.” – George Lucas
Chasing passions
“Chase your passion, not your pension.” – Denis Waitley
Never follow your dreams
“Never follow your dreams. Follow your effort. It’s not about what you can dream of. That’s easy. It’s about whether or not it’s important enough to you to do the work to be ready to be successful in that business.” – Mark Cuban
Greatness
“There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it’s the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.” – Anthony Robbins
Rapid success
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” – Henry David Thoreau
Karma
“Follow your passions, believe in karma, and you won’t have to chase your dreams, they will come to you.” – Randy Pausch
Begin it
“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Set in motion
“By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands – your own.” – Mark Victor
Success
“A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.” – William Hazlitt
How you follow your dreams and focus your passion will be unique to you. You may have noticed that many of the above quotes contradict each other. This just means that you need to find what works for you personally. It’s about trial and error. It’s about continually learning from your mistakes and moving forward. Achieving your professional dreams and harnessing your passions can not only bring you professional success, but it can also bring you fulfillment. And sometimes being fulfilled is more advantageous than having a wallet full of money.
