Quotes About Fulfillment

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

I have lived the American dream. Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days.

It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father.

I don't dream football. I dream the American Dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

When you're gone would you rather have your gravestone say, 'He never missed a meeting.' Or one that said, 'He was a great father.'

I've got a lot to look forward to. I'm trying to be the best father I can, and that's a pretty important role. Some would say it's more important than stopping pucks.

Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.

If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed.

Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.

I am now known as Nina Conti's father and it's wonderful.

It means everything. Making my father happy, that's my biggest joy.

The idea of public service was instilled in me by watching my father, who shared that he was far more fulfilled in his public service than by his former lucrative corporate jobs.

We should enjoy and make the most of life, not because we are in constant fear of what might happen to us in a mythical afterlife, but because we have only one opportunity to live.

I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body.

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.

Some people die twice: once when they retire, and again when they actually pass away. Fear of the first one is a big incentive for me to keep working.

My greatest fear in life is standing before the Lord and hearing Him say, 'I had so much more for you, but you held on too tightly.'

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves

Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Satisfying curiosity ranks No. 2 in my book behind conquering a fear.

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.