self-fulfillment quotes

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It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Lao Tzu

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

William Shakespeare

I don’t mean to be cocky, but if I’m never on TV again, if I never make another dollar, I am proud. I did what I wanted to do.

Mr. T

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

Wayne Dyer

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

Rihanna

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Khalil Gibran

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Noam Chomsky

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

Alice Munro

To be in any way a positive contribution, that’s all anybody wants to be. It’s all I’ve ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you’ve been of use, in whatever way that comes out.

Angelina Jolie

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Tennessee Williams

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

Steve Jobs

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

Brian Tracy

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

Alice Walker