50 Insightful Quotes About Personal Fulfillment

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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
Ayn Rand
Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods, in fact, seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression, and respect.
Alain De Botton
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
William Morris
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha
There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human—in not having to be just happy or just sad—in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl Jung
If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
Chinese Proverb
Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.
Cynthia Nelms
It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
Dale Carnegie
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Viktor E. Frankl
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
Denis Waitley
Unfulfilled people cannot help but be jealous. Only inner security and individual fulfilment as a person will reduce jealousy until, one day, it disappears. It will be replaced by a calm confidence, a steady happiness, a strong resilience, and an interesting, beautiful life.
Donna Goddard
When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.
Cara Delevingne
Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it's the ability to give.
Adam Neumann
Everyone has a purpose, and fulfilling our purpose will make us happy. Whatever our individual purpose is, it will always be to use our abilities to add something good to other people’s lives and thereby add to our own.
Donna Goddard
Love is a fulfillment of life; without that, life is nothing.
Ehsan Sehgal
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
There is nothing more satisfying than being loved for who you are and nothing more painful than being loved for who you’re not but pretending to be.
Neil Pasricha
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
Viktor E. Frankl
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
Viktor E. Frankl
The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
Michael Jordan
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Neil Pasricha
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Epictetus
The key to a great life is simply having a bunch of great days. So you can think about it one day at a time.
Mr. Money Mustache
Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.
Naval Ravikant
No matter how wonderful things used to be, we cannot live in the past. The joy and excitement we feel here and now are more important.
Marie Kondō
Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
Viktor E. Frankl

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Every day is an opportunity to create a living masterpiece.
Michael Gervais
Make yourself proud. I think we spend too much of our time trying to please everyone. And we forget that it’s all already within. Your instinct, your inner child, your soul, all of those who know what’s good for you and the world.
Jérôme Jarre
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens and 90% how I react to it.
Neil Pasricha
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
Eckhart Tolle
Goal setting is the most important aspect of all improvement and personal development plans. It is the key to all fulfillment and achievement.
Paul J. Meyer
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Benjamin Disraeli
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
Ashley Montagu
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
Eckhart Tolle
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
Earl Nightingale
Education is for growth and fulfillment.
Tom Robbins
An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
David Attenborough
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What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.
Alex Campbell
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Dick Gregory
Happy people don’t have the best of everything. They make the best of everything. Be happy first.
Neil Pasricha
You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
Eckhart Tolle
Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.
Zig Ziglar
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.
T. D. Jakes
Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.
Viktor E. Frankl
Jobs are what give people a sense of fulfillment and self-reliance.
Bob McDonnell
My life goal is to find a nice balance between working for money and working for fulfillment.
Adam Pally
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
Washington Irving
People want riches; they need fulfillment.
Robert Conklin
Making a big difference can be a wonderful source of joy for you – and many others. This kind of happiness multiplies itself many times.
Bill Blackman
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Burton Hills
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it
Viktor E. Frankl
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim
The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Leo Rosten
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