Quotes About Fulfillment

We may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

Speaking of Ted Turner The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied in himself.

When people say: she's got everything, I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.

Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.

Resolve to be thyself ... he who finds himself loses his misery!

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

Every man must at last accept himself for his portion, and learn to do his work with the tools and talents with which he has been endowed.

To find the good life you must become yourself.

A sobering thought: what if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.

Success doesn't necessarily make you a happy person ... but without the confidence and security that comes from being totally happy, I believe you cannot achieve your true potential and ultimate success.

Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts-only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are other people tend to be satisfied by what you do.

Long ago I understood that it wasn't merely my being a woman that was preventing my being welcomed into the world of what I long thought of as my peers. It was that I had succeeded in an undertaking few men have even attempted: I have become myself.

A man who finds no satisfaction in himself, seeks for it in vain elsewhere.

Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste for power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children, or merely role models.

It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.