Quotes About Fulfillment

It's been said that success doesn't lead to happiness; happiness creates success.

You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love—who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams." —Oprah Winfrey

It's just about being you and being cool with that. And I think when you're authentic, you end up following your heart, and you put yourself in places and situations and conversations that you love and that you enjoy. You meet people that you like talking to. You go places you've dreamt about. And you and up following your heart and feeling very fulfilled.

The only way to have a great career, says Smith, is to do what you love.

many companies rank low on the customer satisfaction index because their employees are discouraged, disillusioned, and uninspired.

Follow your heart and don't settle for a path that is inconsistent with what you feel is your true destiny.

Andy Hertzfeld, an original member of the Apple team and now an engineer at Google, once said that what Jobs taught him was to "follow your heart" and only great work comes out of doing what you adore.

Disney's mission isn't to build theme parks. It's to "create happiness." The Ritz-Carlton isn't in the business of providing beds for heads, but it's in the business of fulfilling the expressed and unexpressed wishes of their guests. Starbucks isn't in the business of coffee as much as it's in the business to inspire and nurture the human spirit.

Find something you love to do so much, you can't wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.

It's just about being you and being cool with that. And I think when you're authentic, you end up following your heart, and you put yourself in places and situations and conversations that you love and that you enjoy. You meet people that you like talking to. You go places you've dreamt about. And you end up following your heart and feeling very fulfilled.

Steve Jobs had been known to ask: What are you passionate about in your life? "If this is just a job to you, it's the wrong place,

Books don't prattle. Books don't make demands. Yet they give you everything they possess. It's a very satisfying partnership.

a surrendered life is the key to experiencing God and being used by him to accomplish his purposes. When our lives match the lyrics, then we are truly singing.

Effort gives meaning to life.

I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.

I write because I love how I feel to have written.

And I believe him. For the first moment since the Prophet has made his announcement, I feel like maybe, maybe, I have a chance. (44)

There are times in life to grow, and there are times in life to shine. One can't grow and shine at the same time; it just doesn't work that way. Now you're growing. Tomorrow you'll shine.

although they might never be rich or famous in America, they would have the satisfaction of knowing that what they had they had made for themselves.

I derive just as much happiness from the process as from the results.

They'd had no interest in proving themselves. They just did what they loved—with tremendous drive and enthusiasm—and it led where it led.

Many growth-minded people didn't even plan to go to the top They got there as a result of doing what they love. It's ironic: The top is where the fixed-mindset people hunger to be, but it's where many growth-minded people arrive as a by-product of their enthusiasm for what they do.

When you're lying on your deathbed, one of the cool things to say is, 'I really explored myself.' This sense of urgency was instilled when my mom died. If you only go through life doing stuff that's easy, shame on you." So

I asked myself what I would like to be able to say at the end of my life's, and it was this: I want to be able to say that I kept my eyes open, faced my issues, and made wholehearted commitments to things I valued.