Chip Gaines Quotes

If you're following your dreams, you're doing something you love and that you believe in yourself for.

A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.

The minute you decide to do what you love to do, you have made a life plan for yourself and a career choice.

I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

I've spent my life following my passion.

I'm 23, so I'm not done with my life. But acting, definitely, out of what I've done so far, makes me feel the most alive and is very invigorating and thrilling. So I figured I might as well try it for a while.

I feel really lucky that I'm able to pursue the work that I love. I want my children to see that. I want them to have that for themselves, something that they love, that they do, that they pursue in their lives as a way of growing and learning.

Asked to give advice to a 13-year-old girl about how to lead her life, I say find something you love to do. The goal shouldn't be accumulating money. It might be making changes in the world, or in your country.

I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

You know, I think I'm more of a micro-person, so to me, the context and the framework of trying to do what you love and feel passionate about, in supporting your family in that way, is the most important thing to me.

Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.

We are not guaranteed happiness. We are only guaranteed the right to pursue it.

My parents have always advocated doing what I love to do.

My father's only advice is to 'do what makes you happy,' and I follow it religiously.

If you are going to work, you might as well follow your heart, because nothing in life is easy and if it's going to be hard, it might as well be what you really want.

I don't want to take up a project for the sake of it. I want to work and follow my passion, and not anything else.

I only do things that I'm passionate about.

Be yourself, find out what you love, find out what you really want to do, and go do it. And don't depend on people who don't have your best interests at heart.

I'd rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.

I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.

Follow your own star!

Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be.

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.