Mike Yaconelli Quotes

After a few years, I understood that this is what I was meant to do.

I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

There's nothing more nourishing to the spirit than doing what you feel called to do.

The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.

When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.

I want to do work of meaning that speaks to a greater depth of who I am.

One of the things my dad told me when I was growing up was, 'Find your calling. Find what you're meant to do.' When I found animation, I knew this was it.

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.

When I got on stage, I felt this bolt of electricity hit me, and it was this shock of, 'This is exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life.'

I always tell my kids make your vocation your vacation.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

Follow your heart's truth with no need for personal gain other than the feeling produced when doing what you truly love.

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.

The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

I am one of the lucky people in the world: I found something I always wanted to do, and I have enjoyed every single minute of it.

I do things that I actually love and understand.

Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.

I believe I was put on this planet to act, and it's given me huge fulfilment. I feel I've realised my destiny, and I've had a very, very good time doing it.

I remember feeling a little guilty every time I opened a Chipotle. I felt guilty because I wasn't following my true passion. But that eventually went away. And I realized that this is my calling.

I never really thought about what kind of career I wanted to map out for myself. I just wanted to do work that spoke to my heart. 'Atlanta' definitely did that.

It's not like being a writer is a very lucrative career, but you know, you just know when you've found what you're really meant to do.

That's what drives me - to be able to help people get to their own calling and find their own peace.

I think when you live your destiny, you allow yourself to get in touch with your inner essence. What's difficult in life is the economic and social requirements that distract us from bringing forth our true passion.