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30 Quotes About Personal Fulfillment

Jessica Marati — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:40:10 +0000

A list of EcoSalon’s favorite quotes on finding personal fulfillment.

Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here. -Oprah Winfrey

I have seen business moguls achieve their ultimate goals but still live in frustration, worry, and fear. What’s preventing these successful people for being happy? The answer is they have focused only on achievement and not fulfillment. Extraordinary accomplishment does not guarantee extraordinary joy, happiness, love, and a sense of meaning. These two skill sets feed off each other, and make me believe that success without fulfillment is failure. -Tony Robbins

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

You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now. -Wayne W. Dyer

The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you. -Tom Bradley

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. -Denis Waitley

There are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfillment. The essence of these needs is captured in the phrase ‘to live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy’. The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution. -Steven R. Covey

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. -Confucius

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment. -Anthony Robbins

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. -Hilaire Belloc

Life is a promise; fulfill it. -Mother Teresa

Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want – you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don’t know. I’ve forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn’t matter, so long as you move. -Ayn Rand

In order to live a fascinating life – one brimming with art, music, intrigue, and romance – you must surround yourself with precisely those things. -Unknown

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. -Robert Louis Stevenson

I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious. -Vince Lombardi

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

People want riches; they need fulfillment. -Robert Conklin

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.

One of the most powerful wellsprings of creative energy, outstanding accomplishment, and self-fulfillment seems to be falling in love with something – your dreams, your image of the future. -E. Paul Torrance

And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. -Abraham Lincoln

You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life. -Les Brown

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is as unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. -Viktor Frankl

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

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already. -Marcus Aurelius

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

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment. -Hasidic Proverb

There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment through the virtue of work is the highest form of desire. Work is the conduit between the supply and the demand of all human needs, the forerunner of human progress, and the medium by which the imagination is given the wings of action. A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it. -Dennis Kimbro

Just as light brightens darkness, discovering inner fulfillment can eliminate any disorder or discomfort. This is truly the key to creating balance and harmony in everything you do. -Deepak Chopra

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. –Margaret B. Runbeck

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller

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30 Motivational Quotes from the Sports World

Jessica Marati — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:31:36 +0000

A list of EcoSalon’s favorite sports quotes that apply on and off the court.

Sports is human life in microcosm. -Howard Cosell

I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career, lost almost 300 games, missed the game winning shot 26 times. I’ve failed over and over again in my life. That is why I succeed. -Michael Jordan

The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body’s normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport. -Aimee Mullins

Champions keep playing until they get it right. -Billie Jean King

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

All I can say is practice, you never know what you might do. -Soraya Jimenez

The medals don’t mean anything and the glory doesn’t last. It’s all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing. -Jackie Joyner-Kersee

There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out. There’s no such thing as life in-between. -Pat Riley

The Six W’s: Work will win when wishing won’t. -Todd Blackledge

Somewhere behind the athlete you’ve become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back… play for her. -Mia Hamm

Sport is a preserver of health. -Hippocrates

The triumph can’t be had without the struggle. And I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams. -Wilma Rudolph

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. -Wayne Gretzky

The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle. -Author Unknown

You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy. -Arthur Ashe

Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown. -Ross Perot

If you’ve given the greatest effort that you can expect of yourself, you always get what you deserve. -C. Vivian Stringer

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best. -Tim Duncan

It is not how big you are, it’s how big you play. -Author Unknown

Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I’m asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much. -Jackie Joyner-Kersee

The more I practice, the luckier I get. -Jerry Barber

Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be. -Mike Ditka

An athlete gains so much knowledge by just participating in a sport. Focus, discipline, hard work, goal setting and, of course, the thrill of finally achieving your goals. These are all lessons in life. -Kristi Yamaguchi

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possible be – in baseball and in life. -Pete Rose

I don’t think I ever knew just how great it can feel to push your body past its limits, and running is a great way to do it. In fact, the harder I train, the more awesome the after-effects! -Sasha Azevedo

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win. -Steffi Graf

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period. -Lou Holtz

If it is a cliché to say athletics build character as well as muscle, then I subscribe to the cliché. -Gerald Ford

Be positive and work hard. I think it’s possible to overcome anything, if you’re willing to work at it. -Sheryl Swoopes

Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential. -George A. Sheehan

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