Quotes About Fulfillment

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will have it if they cannot find it.

The end of man is action.

If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake them up.

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.

I like to deliver more than I promise instead of the other way around.

Performance releases pressure.

Wishing does not make a poor man rich.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain.

I have learned to have very modest goals for society and myself, things like clean air, green grass, children with bright eyes, not being pushed around, useful work that suits one's abilities, plain tasty food, and occasional satisfying nookie.

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

He is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.

Unless you give yourself to some great cause, you haven't even begun to live.

To live means to have ... a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty.

To grow and know what one is growing towards-that is the source of all strength and confidence in life.

No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purpose.

This is true joy of life-the being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a right one, instead of being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with a purpose.

Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

Having a dream isn't stupid. ... It's not having a dream that's stupid.

What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The doing is all that really counts.