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Quotes About Fulfillment

Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
~ Adelaide Anne Procter
To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.
~ Alan Watts
I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.
~ Albert Ellis
Work is what you do so that sometime you won't have to do it anymore.
~ Alfred Polgar
My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
~ Alice Walker
Life is too short to be doing work that doesn't make you feel happy and fulfilled. I'd rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me.
~ Amanda Crew
Do work that you are proud of with your talented friends.
~ Amy Poehler
It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.
~ Andy Garcia
Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.
~ Anna Brownell Jameson
I think self-esteem comes from work.
~ Anthony Scaramucci
The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
~ Anthony Trollope
The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.
~ Arnold Bennett
There's a balance between what you want to give the world and what it needs. If you're lucky, your work is in the middle.
~ Austin Kleon
I'm happy in the UK. I absolutely love it and I've finally got a great group of friends. I've got a lovely little flat and my work's here.
~ Billie Piper
Most saints live to regret their career choice.
~ Bob Stokes
This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!
~ Bobby Bonilla
I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet.
~ Brittany Murphy
As a head-hunter I get a lot of satisfaction from seeing my candidates do well and therefore my clients happy. I want to work with clients more as a partner than simply a head-hunter.
~ Bruce Bennett
Work, which is considered an expression of a person's value, also becomes a part of one's spirituality and achieves the higher aim of the Supreme Good
~ Brunello Cucinelli
That's one of the things I love about being a songwriter first, last and always, because whether I do it or not, if someone does a great job on it, my work is done.
~ Carole King
My dream had always just been to do my work well, fall in love and build a life for myself.
~ Carrie Snodgress
I'd sleep in a little, work out, do laundry, run errands, buy presents for people with birthdays coming up. I like it when I don't have to be anywhere, and anything I do is my choice.
~ Carrie Underwood
That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you do want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.
~ Celia Green
People who have committed to a service/advocacy role will tell you that some of the sublimest pleasure they have ever experienced comes in the context of that work. You get way more than you give.
~ Charles Garfield