Quotes About Fulfillment

Adversity Quotient author Paul Stoltz compares success with a mountain. Only climbers get to the top. The campers, those who get part of the way up and decide to stay where they are, will never feel as alive or as proud as the climbers. As the philosopher said, it takes courage to grow up and to achieve your full potential.

As Peggy Fleming, the former Olympic champion figure skater, said, the most important thing is to love your sport. Never compete just to please someone else. "You've got to love what you're doing," hockey great Gordie Howe said. "If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains.

He had trained for years to prepare for that moment. When the spotlight came on and the music began, he let fate carry him through. The hard work was over. Now, he told himself, go out and enjoy.

Success in life is peace of mind, the feeling of having no regrets. It comes from knowing you did your best.

It's a done deal; you couldn't screw it up if you tried.

Most people don't know they secretly go after that which will punish them somehow — not in every area of their life, but always in some way.

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!

I write because there is nothing as joyful as writing, even when the writing is twisted and full of hate, the self-hate that makes writing not only possible but necessary. I hate myself, I hate the people around me, but what I crave is the fulfillment of some ideal.

Do you see the common thread in all this thinking? Two words: misplaced expectations. When you expect people, places, and things to fulfill your wants, you will be disappointed. And anytime you put your expectations for help in the wrong place, the result is fear.

when they look to God for their fulfillment, it takes the pressure off of their spouses, children, and friends to fulfill them.

every aspect of a woman's emotional and physical existence is dependent on the romantic love she receives from her husband, says Dr. James Dobson.

We look to our friends or family members or spouses to fulfill our wants. And there's something functionally dysfunctional about such a dependency.

I thought, that day I started, I sure would hate to do this all my life, And dammit, that's just what I've gone and done.

I drank that sentence and began to glow.

If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.

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.

You work nearly all your life to retire, yet, when you finally do, you're so conditioned to work that you suffer from a lack of meaningful deeds to be accomplished. Joe silently shook his head and laid the cola on

Passion or Addiction? Make a list of your daily

Intimacy is trusting that the Universe will provide what you need, when you need it, and in the manner most appropriate for you.

Every cause that has not yet produced its effect is an event that has not yet come to completion.

If you want to have the kind of relationship that your heart yearns for, you have to create it. You can't depend on somebody else creating it for you.

When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing, when your activities and actions become gratifying and purposeful, when what you do serves both yourself and others, when you do not tire within but seek the sweet satisfaction of your life and your work, you are doing what you were meant to be doing.

when the personality comes fully to serve the energy of its soul, that is authentic empowerment

A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.