Fulfillment Quotes

Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland?

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.

I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion.

In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.

Meaning is found not in the rewards, for they are only tokens. Seek not to have the gold medal. Instead, seek to be the person who can win the gold medal. It is in the quest that you'll find the fulfillment which the reward represents.

I just needed to get out on my own, live my own life. And I did, and it's great.

If you thirst you may drink.

If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.

When your fulfillment and sense of self are no longer dependent on the future outcome, joy flows into whatever you do. You do what you do because the action itself is fulfilling. Whatever you do or create in that state is of high quality. This is because it is not a means to an end, and so a loving care flows into your doing.

Why would I want to be president? I'm the king of Disneyland.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

Other than our love our labor is one of the most sacred gifts we can give. When your labor is your love, life is sacred. Love what you do or change.

Don't confuse wealth with success.

A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed.

The drum of the realization of the promise is beating, we are sweeping the road to the sky. Your joy is here today, what remains for tomorrow?

Judge your success by the degree that you're enjoying peace, health, and love.

What is the nature of that place where our original self is one with its longing to explore its own deepest possibilities, and where discovering the treasures waiting there is the same as fulfilling our purpose for being?

A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.

You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love.

Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.

With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

When you drop your expectations that a person, a situation, a place, or an object should fulfill you, it's easier to be present in this moment because you're no longer looking to the next one. Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment.

I was lucky - I found what I love to do early in life.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

If you don't love where you are right now, you won't love where you are going. Here is what I know: People who are passionate about what they do every day and love where they are in life are the fortunate ones. They have discovered their purpose. They are the difference makers who fully understand the gift of adding value, and yes, they can't help but love where they are going on their journey.

When your life is on course with it’s purpose, you are your most powerful.

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

I have no understanding as to why you wouldn't try to make what you're passionate about work for you.

The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business of life,--chiefly because they do not know, but partly because they do not mean, any better.

Labor is service and service is life. And when we serve something more than ourselves, we feel alive.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

The happiest people are those who have harvested their time in others. The unhappiest people are those who wonder how the world is going to make them happy.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

When we attempt to find meaning in the pursuit of pleasure, the commitment to a job, or through plumbing intellectual depths, we all eventually find in each of these pursuits a dead end.

I consider myself the luckiest man in the world. I have spent a lifetime doing what I love.

It's not just getting a goal that matters, but the quality of life you experience along the way.

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

I'm certainly not saying that my life is what success is all about. To me, success is the ongoing process of striving to become more.

Working because you want to, not because you have to is financial freedom.

When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded an instant and immeasurable crop. It was no longer beans that I hoed, nor I that hoed beans; and I remembered with as much pity as pride, if I remembered at all, my acquaintances who had gone to the city to attend the oratorios.

You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough.

Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden; it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has.

Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.

When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.

When you are present, when your attention is fully in the Now, Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There will be a quality and power in it. You are present when what you are doing is not primarily a means to an end (money, prestige, winning) but fulfilling in itself, when there is joy and aliveness in what you do.

There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.

Teams make you better than you are, multiply your value, enable you to do what you do best, allow you to help others do their best, give you more time, provide you with companionship, help you fulfill the desires of your heart and compound your vision and effort.

Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act.

There's nothing that feels better than to do something nice for somebody. I mean nothing feels better.

If you travel alone, you can probably go faster. But the journey will never be as rewarding, and you probably won't be able to go as far.