Quotes About Fulfillment

It's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining.

In dreams begin responsibilities," as the poet Yeats said,

She was struck, too, by how often in this sad life a person's gifts are useless in helping him fulfill his true desire.

Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.

And then they lived happily, and we who hear the story are happier still.

You are lucky if you know what you want to do in life. You are incredibly lucky if you are able to have a career in it.

The problem was that the Duke wanted status not a job, to be recognised rather than to contribute.

She'd become an idea. She was an abstract thing I wanted, a thing that I already had , really, if I could keep it.

But, like lots of people she knew, she mostly wanted it so she wouldn't have to want it anymore, so that people would get off her back about how she didn't have any.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you cant give it.

I didn't know about jealousy or depressions or anything like that. I had such a wonderful existence being a kindergarten teacher – you didn't suffer from anything like that, you got tired but that was it.

but I come back here and I know when I turn my light off at night I did my best.

what she did during her lifetime but in the meaning of her life, the inspiration she gave to others, particularly women, to search for their own truth.

It was a childhood where she wanted for nothing materially but everything emotionally.

The quest of the handsome prince was complete. He had found his fair maiden and the world had its fairytale.

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.

The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willing to be nothing in itself, that God may be all. Water always fills first the lowest places. The lower, the emptier a man lies before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of the diving glory.

we could all die without regretting life.'35

Winning is not enough if one doesn't take advantage of success.

Once someone's source of motivation is self-actualization, his drive to perform has no limit. Thus, its most important characteristic is that unlike other sources of motivation, which extinguish themselves after the needs are fulfilled, self-actualization continues to motivate people to ever higher levels of performance.

It almost doesn't matter what you know…it's execution that matters most.

For Maslow, motivation is closely tied to the idea of needs, which cause people to have drives, which in turn result in motivation. A need once satisfied stops being a need and therefore stops being a source of motivation. Simply put, if we are to create and maintain a high degree of motivation, we must keep some needs unsatisfied at all times.

what self-actualization means: the need to achieve one's utter personal best in a chosen field of endeavor. Once someone's source of motivation is self-actualization, his drive to perform has no limit. Thus, its most important characteristic is that unlike other sources of motivation, which extinguish themselves after the needs are fulfilled, self-actualization continues to motivate people to ever higher levels of performance.

our role as managers is, first, to train the individuals (to move them along the horizontal axis shown in the illustration on this page), and, second, to bring them to the point where self-actualization motivates them, because once there, their motivation will be self-sustaining and limitless.