Quotes About Fulfillment

The polished executive is ultimately the happy executive who can walk gracefully through life.

I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost. I don't really need to do that, and I thought if I could do something for sport in Scotland, that would be really fulfilling.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.

I'm just happy with what I am, and I happen to be a polo player.

I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.

I've always done pretty well for myself here in the U.K., but I was never going to be content being a big fish in a small pond.

My entire life, I just wanted a pony, and I couldn't care less about a pair of shoes.

What makes it all worth-while is what I've been able to do for my parents. They were poor and worked all their lives. Like all boys in London, I dreamed of winning the football pool and doing for them. Well, this is better than any football pool. Now they don't have to work. I've given them a nice home and a car. It's a good feeling.

I don't need a pool room with medals and everything hanging up.

For me, acting is like a pool you dive into. If you're lucky, you find what you need, then get out again.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.

I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.

I never wanted to be a pop star.

I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala!

So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?

As I have got older, I have found myself making friends with the ease and swiftness that other people pick up fuzzballs on their jumpers. And I believe it is probably my lack of longing for 'The One' that makes me so popular.

It is very important I live up to my own expectations as far as popularity and knowing that I left my mark on the sport.

I believe it is within our capacity that by the year 2051 that 51 percent of the human population will be flourishing. That is my charge.

I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.

If 'Satyagrah' was supposed to be my last film I would look back and say it was a happy portfolio. But there is a feeling that I wish I could have done something better.

I think that most of the people running companies today are motivated and pay is a small portion of the motivation.