Echoes

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

..I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

What we in industry learned in dealing with people is that people do not work just for money and that if you are trying to motivate, money is not the most effective tool.

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, honorable, compassionate.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don’t settle.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind — honest work, which you intend getting done.

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be oneself.

There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.

But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, Life.