Marvin J. Ashton Quotes

Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.

The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

Where can you find purpose? Like success and happiness, our purpose exists in the present, and we constantly strive toward the future to maintain it. What it is for which we strive is up to each of us. The important thing is that we strive toward something.

Everyone wants that sense of fulfilling a purpose in some way.

The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

You should aspire to a level of personal excellence - to be the best you can be. You should aspire to have the richest life you can get in terms of fulfillment, happiness and peace.

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.

Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress; working hard for somthing we love is called passion.

To acheive happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.

The big question is, are we letting ourselves become what we wish to become?

All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.

..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.

You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you. Theologian Howard Thurman said it best. He said, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

Everything you want to be, do or have comes from love.

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

I'm not an expert, but I want to be.

I wouldn't change my life for anything. I am exactly where I want to be and have no plans to ever retire.

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

It's been really good to have a goal and go after it. That feels good.

It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

Now, I've changed my life to make sure I work only on what I love.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Figure out what you really love doing and use your strengths on a daily basis.

I am turning into the person I knew I would.