Original: In qualsiasi professione, la differenza la fa sempre l'amore che si prova per un lavoro. Amare il proprio lavoro... è l'unico modo per fare bene il proprio dovere.
Source: prevale.net
campaign appearance, 2010-05-14
“In life you always fight for what you love to do. Defending your art is your duty.”
Original: (it) Nella vita combatti sempre per ciò che ami fare. Difendere la tua arte è il tuo dovere.
Source: prevale.net
“A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession.”
Source: Factotum
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
Misattributed to Confucius since at least 1985; correct origins are dubious, as mentioned in "Choose a Job You Love, and You Will Never Have To Work a Day in Your Life" at QuoteInvestigator.com (2 September 2014) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/02/job-love/: the oldest English-language use of the proverb has been found in Woolfolk, Ann, "Toshiko Takaezu," Princeton Alumni Weekly, Vol. 83(5), 6 October 1982, p. 32: "Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life." (attributed to Arthur Szathmary, who attributes it, in his turn, to an unnamed source).
Misattributed, Not Chinese
“Do not hesistate to attack me, criticize me, if I do wrong in my job. It is your duty.”
Philstar, Duterte to media: You can criticize me as long as it’s true https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2016/09/11/1622603/duterte-media-you-can-criticize-me-long-its-true (September 2016)
On criticism
“It's not your job to die for your Pack! It's your job to make the other bastards die for theirs.”
Source: Magic Burns
“It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.”
Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Academy of Achievement interview (1991)
Context: My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather than a job. I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would. Scientists function in the same way. I see all these as creative activities, as all part of the process of discovery. Perhaps that's one of the characteristics of what I call the evolvers, any subset of the population who keep things moving in a positive, creative, constructive way, revealing the truth and beauty that exists in life and in nature.
