Quotes About Fulfillment

I believe that we have been doing this not primarily to achieve riches or even honour, but rather because we were interested in the work, enjoyed doing it and felt very strongly that it was worthwhile.

We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.

I'll tell you what makes me feel worthwhile: organizing and solving other people's problems. It makes me feel good to go to Mexico City and figure out theories on how you can reorganize and reduce crime. To me, it's one of the more fulfilling ways to spend a day.

Connecting with people, getting things done - that's what makes the travel worthwhile.

Obviously, we all want to feel pleasure. It can't be one of our highest priorities because, simply put, anything worthwhile in life is going to be un-pleasurable at times. Pleasure is the type of thing that if you get the other stuff right, pleasure will happen on its own.

We all like to believe we are completely self-sufficient, but at the end of it all, we're all searching for a human connection, something to make it all feel a bit more worthwhile.

I did not win anything at Leverkusen so to win six titles in four years with Bayern shows the move was worthwhile.

Basically, I should feel at the end of the day that I am doing something worthwhile.

There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

Even people who believe they deserve to be happy and have nice things often don't feel worthy once they have them.

I'm sort of of the belief that people kill themselves from the inside out. When they're unhappy with what they're doing, or not achieving things - when your focus is off-kilter. The thing that keeps me ticking is my values. And I maintain them, because they're worthy. I like to wake up and feel I've done no wrong. I like that feeling.

Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy.

The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have is to so live and so improve himself in heart and brain as to be worthy of the love of some splendid woman; and the grandest ambition of any girl is to make herself worthy of the love and adoration of some magnificent man.

I think one great tip is that you should always love yourself. If you don't love yourself, take care of yourself, cater to yourself and that little inner voice, you will really not be very worthy of being with someone else, because you won't be the best version of you.

I caution people away from quitting their jobs to travel the world because I don't think traveling the world is a worthy cause on its own.

I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.