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Quotes About Fulfillment

Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell
It would not be better if men got what they wanted.
~ Euripides
Account no man happy till he dies.
~ Euripides
Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.
~ Euripides
I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.
~ Fantasia Barrino
In all of my movies I've tried to address the need for man - not just Cubans - to have a dream and to fight for that dream, even when he doesn't achieve it. It's a form of happiness.
~ Fernando Perez
The grave is sooner cloy'd than men's desire.
~ Francis Quarles
Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread".
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Your love is all that I was waiting for and now that I feel it ...oh man...what I thought was not even quarter of what I thought it really was.
~ Gary Lawyer
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.
~ Gaston Bachelard
Truly, men make too little use of their lives; and so it is no wonder that the world should still be in such a poor way.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.
~ George Crabbe
When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, 'Let us,'said he,'pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which disperse' d lie, Contract into a span'.
~ George Herbert
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
~ George Herbert
Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent.
~ George W. Buck