Quotes About Fulfillment

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.

Happy [is] the man who knows his duties!

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

The full-grown modern human being ... 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.

Having a goal is a state of happiness.

First health, then wealth, then pleasure, and do not owe anything to anybody.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest, and our attention to something besides ourselves.

Happiness is a by-product of helping others.

Seldom can the heart be lonely, If it seeks a lonelier still; Self-forgetting, seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.

If I were to suggest a general rule for happiness, I would say "Work a little harder; Work a little longer; Work!"

Happiness ... loves to see men work. She loves sweat, weariness, self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces, but lurking in cornfields and factories, and hovering over littered desks.

Every job has drudgery. ... The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness.

Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

Man is happy only as he finds a work worth doing-and does it well.

Being asked one day what was the surest way of remaining happy in this world, the Emperor Sigismund of Germany replied: "Only do in health what you have promised to do when you were sick."

The best things in life aren't things.

Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Getting what you go after is success; but liking it while you are getting it is happiness.

Let him that would be happy for a day, go to the barber; for a week, marry a wife; for a month, buy him a new horse; for a year, build him a new house; for all his lifetime, be an honest man.