It’s Better to Fail at What You Love Than Fail at What You Don’t.

Take work as a game and enjoy it. Everything is a challenge. Just don’t go on doing it, dragging yourself because it has to be done.
So there are only two possibilities: either find work you like or become capable of liking the work, whatsoever it is. The second is the best alternative because it is very difficult to find work that you like.like. Sooner or later you will dislike it. In the beginning, maybe you like it.

He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.

It’s better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, ‘I don’t want to try because I may not succeed completely.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. As it turns out, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Il faut travailler, sinon par goût, au moins par désespoir, puisque, tout bien vérifié, travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser.

You'll do better work if you're bored rather than busy.

I would rather try to succeed and fail than try to do nothing and succeed.

One suffers work, even if one enjoys doing it.

You'll never achieve real success unless you like what you're doing.

'Tis better to have tried in vain,
Sincerely striving for a goal,
Than to have lived upon the plain
An idle and a timid soul.<p>'Tis better to have fought and spent
Your courage, missing all applause,
Than to have lived in smug content
And never ventured for a cause.<p>For he who tries and fails may be
The founder of a better day;
Though never his the victory,
From him shall others learn the way.

The best work is the work you are excited about.

A good sign that you are doing the kind of work you should be doing is that you enjoy the tedious parts that other people find torturous.

It’s lots better to be miserable than to be bored.