#Fulfillment Quotes

“Ambition's debt is paid.”

“Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now letme die, for I have lived long enough.”

“There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.”

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

“If you find something you really love, you will never work again.”

“Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is food and wine, is fire and horse and health and holiday. At least, I find that any success in my work has the effect on my spirits of all these.”

“The mere presence of PASSION within you is all you need to fulfill your DREAMS.”

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

“There is some kiss we want with the whole of our lives.”

“If you know with a complete absence of doubt that what you are doing is consistent with your own purpose and that you are involved in accomplishing a great affair, then you are at peace with yourself and in harmony with your own heroic mission.”

“Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.”

“Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.”

“I always say: Don't die with your music still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul. When you do this, you're also tapping into one of the face of intention: love. If you're doing what you love and loving what you do - whatever it is - you make a living at it!”

“A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this.”

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

“Life is never boring but some people choose to be bored. The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. Boredom is a choice; something you visit upon yourself, and it is another of those self-defeating items that you can eliminate from your life.”

“The only thing you can do with your life is give it away. The best, happiest moments in your life are always when you're giving something away.”

“I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.”

“Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?”

“Don't die with your music still in you. Don't die with your purpose unfulfilled. Don't die feeling as if your life has been wrong. Don't let that happen to you.”

“It's probably more fulfilling for me to be offering what I offer than it is for the people who receive it.”

“The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.”

“I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.”

“When you are satisfied, you are successful. For that's all there is to success is satisfaction.”

“No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.”

“To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.”

“The secret to a fulfilled life is not only to do well but also to do good.”

“The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.”

“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.”

“Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.”

“This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.”

“The secret to living is giving.”

“Success is not something you achieve, conquer, climb, or complete. Success is a process; it's a way of life.”

“Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.”

“There's a huge difference between achieving to be happy and happily achieving.”

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

“The strenuous life tastes better”

“Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.”

“All goal setting must be immediately followed by both the development of a plan, and massive and consistent action toward its fulfillment.”

“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”

“Success without happiness is failure.”

“I don't have to work another day of my life, thank God, but I'm in a place where I probably work as hard or harder today than I ever have, but I do it because I want to, not because I have to. What is the difference between work and play? I think the difference is purpose. When your vocation becomes your vacation, the old quote, you know that's when you made it.”

“Progress equals happiness.”

“The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.”

“I have seen business moguls achieve their ultimate goals but still live in frustration, worry, and fear. What's preventing these successful people for being happy? The answer is they have focused only on achievement and not fulfillment. Extraordinary accomplishment does not guarantee extraordinary joy, happiness, love, and a sense of meaning. These two skill sets feed off each other, and make me believe that success without fulfillment is failure.”

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

“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.”

“If you look around the world and I can tell you right now that the majority of the planet is focused on certainty and significance. And those two absolutely guarantee unhappiness. Because if you're driven by significance, it doesn't matter what you achieve, it's never enough.”

“Happiness is in the mind, experiences of joy or pleasure should be found in the body; but ongoing joy, pure unadulterated joy, that feeling of bliss for no reason comes when you feel like your life matters because it matters to more than yourself.”

“Lasting fulfillment is attained only through gaining insight into the core of our human nature, unleashing the power to understand, appreciate, and enjoy our lives at the deepest level.”