Fulfillment Quotes - Page 30

• No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfillment.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Pain, Envy

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• Aging is no accident. It is necessary to the human
  condition, intended by the soul. We become more characteristic of who we are simply by lasting into later years; the older we become, the more our true natures emerge. Thus the final years have a very important purpose: the fulfillment and confirmation of one’s character.

  James Hillman

  Character, Years, Soul

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• Without gratitude and appreciation for what you already have, you’ll never know true fulfillment.

  Tony Robbins

  Thankful, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• I think that in the past, in the '50s and '60s, after the existentialists and beatniks and hippie movements, the big deal was, Don't sell out. We live in a society that by virtue of the speed we communicate and sell, everything sells. The danger is buying in; that your concern becomes success, rather than fulfillment. They're two different beasts, and my feeling is that you should seek fulfillment. You should not measure your worth in how much you have or how popular you are, but how happy you are with what you do.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Hippie, Past, Thinking

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• Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters-self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Pride, Self, Matter

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• The ultimate fulfillment of God's mercy in Jesus is not something that is supplied in time to correct a default in the system, but is something that is planned from all of eternity.

  Alistair Begg

  Jesus, Mercy, Eternity

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• I" cannot reach fulfillment without "thou." The self cannot be self without other selves. Self-concern without other-concern is like a tributary that has no outward flow to the ocean.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Ocean, Self, Flow

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• When we think of other people as our center and fulfillment, we live frustrated lives.

  Mary E. DeMuth

  Thinking, People, Frustrated

  Mary E DeMuth (2012). “Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus”, p.34, Thomas Nelson

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• Appreciation is an art and a lifestyle and a source of happiness and fulfillment. It's called gratitude-an attitude of gratitude.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Art

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• A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.

  Ramsey Clark

  Heart, Savages, Death Penalty

  Ramsey Clark (1971). “Crime in America”

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• Grace means that God does something for me; law means that I do something for God. God has certain holy and righteous demands which he places upon me: that is law. Now if law means that God requires something of me for their fulfillment, then deliverance from law means he no longer requires that from me, but himself provides it.

  Watchman Nee

  Mean, Law, Grace

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.121, CLC Publications

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• Make choices that are loving for yourself - with your diet, your relationships, and in speaking your loving truth - that are in alignment with what you want to be doing. When you see that in a person, you are seeing their passion and fulfillment, and that person feels good to you because they feel good to themselves. I know that I feel good and I think that comes across on stage; when I didn't feel good before, I think that came across on stage.

  India.Arie

  Inspiring, Passion, Journey

  "India.Arie – Prepare to Fly". Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. February 4, 2014.

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• To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of artthis is one of the fascinating challenges of these days.

  John F. Kennedy

  Appreciation, People, Presidential

  John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Magnum Photos, inc, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.) (1962). “Creative America”

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• In my commencement address I gave the language and sources of the prophetic utterance made by the Prophet Joseph that the Constitution of the United States would hang by a single thread, but be saved by the elders of Israel. I hope you will read those sources so you will be well-informed as to this prophecy and be prepared to do your part in its fulfillment.

  Ernest L. Wilkinson

  Israel, United States, Utterance

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• I do not choose to be a common man…it is my right to be uncommon—if I can…I seek opportunity—not security…I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed… to refuse to barter incentive for a dole… I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopias….

  Peter O'Toole

  Dream, Opportunity, Men

  "Who's Who in America". Book by Dean Alfange, vol. 1, p. 42, 1984 - 85.

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• My films are expressive of a culture that has had the possibility of attaining material fulfillment while at the same time finding itself unable to accomplish the simple business of conducting human lives. We have been sold a bill of goods as a substitute for life. What is needed is reassurance in human emotions; a re-evaluation of our emotional capacities.

  John Cassavetes

  Simple, Emotional, Culture

  "Savages: Silence Yourself" by Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. May 6, 2013.

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• The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.

  John F. MacArthur

  Self, Denial, Self Fulfillment

  John F. MacArthur (2006). “Hard to Believe: The High Cost and Infinite Value of Following Jesus”, p.2, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Ask yourself this: How much deprivation, how much self-effacement must you suffer through before you act on your desire for meaning and fulfillment? Before it’s your turn to thrive in your life, instead of barely surviving it? Some people live their dreams. Why not you?

  Jillian Michaels

  Dream, Self, People

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• Reply implicitly upon the old, old gospel. You need no other nets when you fish for men; those your Master has given you are strong enough to hold the little ones. Spread these nets and no others, and you need not fear the fulfillment of His word, 'I will make you fishers of men.'

  Charles Spurgeon

  Strong, Men, Needs

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2001). “The Soul-Winner”, p.4, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some instances, trauma, in the shape of early separation or bereavement, has steered the potentially creative person toward developing aspects of his personality which can find fulfillment in comparative isolation. But this does not mean that solitary, creative pursuits are themselves pathological.

  Anthony Storr

  Mean, People, Personality

  Anthony Storr (2005). “Solitude: A Return to the Self”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• I do believe that an intimacy with the world of crickets and their kind can be salutary - not for what they are likely to teach us about ourselves but because they remind us, of we will let them, that there are other voices, other rhythms, other strivings and fulfillments than our own.

  Howard Evans

  Believe, Garden, Voice

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• The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife - freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

  Betty Friedan

  Dream, Grandmother, Envy

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. He is the only one who should have power over our souls.

  Stormie Omartian

  Should Have, Soul, Answers

  Stormie Omartian (2014). “The Power of a Praying® Woman”, p.13, Harvest House Publishers

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• Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Motivational, Hard Work, Needs

  "What Does A Strong Life Look Like?" by Marcus Buckingham, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• We strive to hire and retain only those who embrace our MBM® Guiding Principles, which encompass integrity, compliance, value creation, Principled Entrepreneurship, customer focus, knowledge, change, humility, respect and fulfillment.

  Charles Koch

  Integrity, Humility, Guiding Principles

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