Quotes About Fulfillment

Peter Drucker told me that retirees have not proved to be the fertile source of volunteer effort we once thought they would be. They cut their engines off and lose their edge. Peter believed that if you do not have a second or parallel career in service by age forty-five, and if you are not vigorously involved in it by age fifty-five, it will never happen.

Whatever success you are having will never completely fulfill you. A life of significance — of really mattering — is yours for the taking, and the process I describe in this book will work for you.

God's desire is for you to serve him just by being who you are, by using what he gave you to work with.

There are two sources of unhappiness in life. One is not getting what you want; the other is getting it. George Bernard Shaw W

As one successful Harvard-educated businessman remarked about the many successes he had experienced in his business, "I was always finding out that beyond the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, there's a sort of emptiness." Consider

If your life were absolutely perfect, how would it look to you?

I was given far more opportunity for growth, personal development, and financial rewards than most Americans.

If the first half was a quest for success, the second half is a journey to significance.

Regardless of where you are, I invite you, in the following pages, to discredit the view that the second half of your life will never measure up to the first. Instead of giving up and settling for life on its own terms, you are ready for new horizons, new challenges. You are ready to move from success to significance

The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself, but when he plays the role destiny has for him. Vaclav Havel

One of the most common characteristics of a person who is nearing the end of the first half is that unquenchable desire to move from success to significance.

How was it that I could be so successful, so fortunate, and yet so frustratingly unfulfilled?

I began asking myself questions like these: Am I listening for the still, small voice? Is my work still the center of my life and identity? Do I have an eternal perspective as a prism through which I view my life? What is my truest purpose? My life work? My destiny? What does it really mean to "have it all"?

God has a wonderful plan for the second half of your life: to allow you to serve him by doing what you like to do and what you are good at.

how to find meaning and fulfillment in the second half of our lives. In short, how to move from success to significance! Stephen R. Covey, Covey Leadership Center

This book will show you how to make the rest of your life the best of your life. I want every man in my congregation to read this inspiring story! Rick Warren, pastor, Saddleback Community Church

Let Bob Buford be your guide to make sure your best years are ahead of you. Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One-Minute Manager

We need to make a game out of earning money. There is so much good we can do with money. Without it, we are bound and shackled and our choices become limited.

We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope that we get to death without being too badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams." - Bob Proctor

God's gift to you is more talent and ability than you will ever use in one lifetime. Your gift to God is to develop and utilize as much of that talent and ability as you can, in this lifetime.   Steve Bow

you have a wealthy mindset, you do what you love—and make money doing it. It's not the goal—it's the result.

We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and get to death without being too badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams.

Remember, wealth isn't just about generating money. It's doing what you love in the way you want to do it.

We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope that we get to death without being too badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams.