Satisfaction Quotes

I long for truth, and yetI cannot stay from thatMy better self disowns,For a man's attentionBrings such satisfactionTo the craving in my bones.

What's considered enough money? Just a little bit more.

You may get an emotional thrill when you first buy something, but emotions are fickle. You buy that one thing you think will complete your happiness, but after awhile the feeling goes away and you have to go to the next thing. You just keep going from purchase to purchase looking for the one thing that will finally satisfy. But stuff can't satisfy.

Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.

You want appreciation. Even though you like what's happening now doesn't mean that you still don't want appreciation or greater stimulation. It just means you're not using something in your now as your excuse to not let in all those things that you've been wanting. The perfect creative stance is satisfaction where I am, and eagerness for more.

Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.

Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!

He is well paid that is well satisfied.

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.

Once a need is satisfied, it is no longer a motivator. Satisfaction does not increase motivation

It is a true observation of ancient writers, that as men are apt to be cast down by adversity, so they, are easily satiated with prosperity, and that joy and grief produce the same effects. For whenever men are not obliged by necessity to fight they fight from ambition, which is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops eating, but the man is never sure when to stop. When he has eaten as much as his belly can take, he still feels empty, he still feels an urge for further gratification.

I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing.

Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself.

No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

Buying something on sale is a very special feeling. In fact, the less I pay for something, the more it is worth to me.

To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.

What I think the mentor gets is the great satisfaction of helping somebody along, helping somebody take advantage of an opportunity that maybe he or she did not have.

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfying to me. I like that.

I'm obsessed with packing in as much work as possible during each day, simply because there is only so much time you have in a lifetime. There is nothing better than to go home at night and know that you've done everything that you could do to accomplish your work.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

If you're really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, 'Hey;' you just very calmly present something.

You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.

I have a nice home, the office is close by, and the pay is good.

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot of my songs aren't that doable.

Having everything your way is highly overrated.

She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

You definitely do not do films for that particular reason. You do them for yourself, for your satisfaction of creating this thing with characters and watching these characters take on real life - that's all you care about.

When you are satisfied, you are successful. For that's all there is to success is satisfaction.

I'm not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well

Businesses are not paid to reform customers. They are paid to satisfy customers.

I don't think any President ever enjoyed himself more than I did. Moreover, I don't think any ex-President ever enjoyed himself more.

There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.

When we attempt to find meaning in the pursuit of pleasure, the commitment to a job, or through plumbing intellectual depths, we all eventually find in each of these pursuits a dead end.

There are few things in this world more satisfying than having your son teach you how to play tennis, unless it is having a semi-truck run over your foot.

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

All get what they want; they do not always like it.