Self Fulfillment Quotes - Page 2

• There are many paths through the Ring of Life. They are a constant movement toward self-fulfillment through growth of your mind, expansion of your experiences, widening of your senses and growing your spirit. It's ceaseless and constant throughout one's life.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Travel, Self, Growth

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• The most direct path to achievement whether you're an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a great performer and a great team member. This is also the secret to a meaningful career and self-fulfillment.

  Maynard Webb

  Soccer, Meaningful, Team

  "Meritocracy: World Cup Fever" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2010.

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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 Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the people. Those great documents guarantee to us all the rights to personal and spiritual self-fulfillment. But that guarantee is not self-executing. As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of the change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.

  William O. Douglas

  Spiritual, Twilight, Rights

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• Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

  Elie Wiesel

  Self, Solitude, Despair

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• A lonely impulse of delight

  William Butler Yeats

  Lonely, Contentment, Delight

  "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" l. 9 (1919)

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• It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Love You, Thinking, What If

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• It’s only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we’re of any real use.

  Henning Mankell

  Real, Use

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• A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person.

  Timothy Keller

  Crush, Jobs, Mean

  Timothy Keller (2012). “Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work”, p.2, Penguin

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• Freedom means self-fulfillment. It also means putting up with other people's irritating pursuit of the same. It means being confronted by disturbing images and ideas.

  Wendy McElroy

  Freedom, Mean, Self

  "XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography". Chapter 4, www.wendymcelroy.com. 1995.

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• There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody. Contemplate the crowds of people who are striving might and main to become, not what Nature intended them to be- musicians, cooks, mechanics, carpenters, gardeners, inventors- but "somebody": to become successful, famous, powerful; to become something that will bring not quiet and self-fulfillment, but self-glorification and self-expansion

  Anthony de Mello

  Children, Powerful, Ambition

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.73, Image

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• The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Heart, Joy

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• We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man.

  John F. Kennedy

  Powerful, Men, Self

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.548, Best Books on

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• My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration and ignoble deaths; that there is security in personal strength; that you can fight City Hall and win; that any action is better than no action, even if it's the wrong action; that you never reach glory or self-fulfillment unless you're willing to risk everything, dare anything, put yourself dead on the line every time; and that once one becomes strong or rich or potent or powerful it is the responsibility of the strong to help the weak become strong.

  Harlan Ellison

  Strong, Powerful, Philosophy

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “The Harlan Ellison Hornbook: Essays”, p.170, Open Road Media

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• Remember that work is not a place for self-fulfillment. If it were, you would know it.

  Corinne Maier

  Work, Self, Remember

  Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.65, Vintage

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• I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for self-fulfillment.

  Jimmy Carter

  Self, Desire, Noble

  Jimmy Carter (1976). “"I'll Never Lie to You": Jimmy Carter in His Own Words”

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