Quotes About Fulfillment

A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made

Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.

Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates

Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.

If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.

Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.

I love men who have a lot going on in their lives, like I do.

I don't need a man. I'm really happy with myself and being with my friends.

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.

The covetous man is ever in want.

That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

We are not men, but promises of men.

So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.

I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.

Man cannot live by profit alone.

There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.

It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness.

The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.

Most men employ the first part of life to make the other part miserable. [Fr., La plupart des hommes emploient la premiere part vie a rendre l'autre miserable.]