Satisfaction famous quotes

Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

#Mean #Humility #Satisfaction

There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.
-- Ada Leverson

#Pain #Joy #Satisfaction

I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.
-- Adolf Eichmann

#Laughing #Feelings #Satisfaction

I believe people work for satisfaction.
-- Akio Morita

#Believe #People #Satisfaction

I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.
-- Alan Alda

#Knowing #Satisfaction #Greedy

Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions.
-- Alan Keyes

#Thinking #Joy #Satisfaction

Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.
-- Alan Turing

#People #Feel Good #Satisfaction

Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man.
-- Albert C. Barnes

#Art #Men #Satisfaction

I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction.
-- Alicia Machado

#Giving #Acting #Satisfaction

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Thinking #Giving #Satisfaction

REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Satisfaction #Made

REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Satisfaction #Redress

You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.
-- Andrew Bird

#Long #Littles #Satisfaction

We negotiate with chaos for some sense of satisfaction.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Philosophy #Satisfaction #Chaos

What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.
-- Anna Pavlova

#Success #Feelings #Satisfaction

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
-- Anna Sui

#Desire #Satisfaction #Longing

I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.
-- Anne Rice

#Thinking #Satisfaction #Miserable

No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect
-- Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulieres

#Satisfaction #Fortune #Intellect

I will always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

#Accomplishment #Satisfaction #Hungry

If a painting of mine suits me, it is right. If it does not please me, I care not if all the great masters should approve it or the dealers buy it. They would be wrong.
-- Arshile Gorky

#Care #Satisfaction #Suits

Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.
-- Arthur C. Brooks

#Satisfaction #Wealth #Creation

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Satisfaction #Vengeance #Realizing

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

#Wish #Desire #Satisfaction

Alle Befriedigung, oder was man gemeinhin Glu«  ck nennt, ist eigentlich und wesentlich immer nur negativ und durchaus nie positiv. All satisfaction, or what iscommonlycalled happiness, is really and essentially always negative only, and never positive.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Men #Negative #Satisfaction

I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.
-- Ashton Eaton

#Tests #Satisfaction

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Satisfaction #Firsts #Credit

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart

#Bars #Satisfaction #Pursuit

Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#Sex #Satisfaction #Appetite

If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.
-- Ben Bernanke

#Achievement #Satisfaction #Not Happy

All our problems, all our disputes, all our disagreements can be resolved quickly to mutual satisfaction if we address the question.
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Addresses #Satisfaction #Problem

I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Happiness #Satisfaction #Faults

I presume that to the uninitiated the formulae will appear cold and cheerless; but let it be remembered that, like other mathematical formulae, they find their origin in the divine source of all geometry. Whether I shall have the satisfaction of taking part in their exposition, or whether that will remain for some more profound expositor, will be seen in the future.
-- Benjamin Peirce

#Profound #Satisfaction #Cold

A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
-- Benjamin Spock

#Selfish #Successful #Satisfaction

The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Happiness #Satisfaction #Enterprise

What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Vanity #Needs #Satisfaction

Never eat while doing something else, because you won't get the satisfaction from your food and you'll be more likely to overeat.
-- Bethenny Frankel

#Satisfaction

American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.
-- Betty Friedan

#Brain #Satisfaction #Causes

Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.
-- Bill Blass

#Reading #Satisfaction #Given

Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love.
-- Bill Keller

#Writing #Editors #Satisfaction

Tamaki to Kyoya: I thought you wanted more because your eyes don't show satisfaction now.
-- Bisco Hatori

#Eye #Satisfaction #Wanted

I'm always looking to rock out. But it isn't really about rocking out versus being mellow, in terms of your personal satisfaction. In the end, you just want to be good. When you look at something that's really good, it might be Iggy Pop or it might be Leonard Cohen. Whatever it is, you want it to be really good.
-- Black Francis

#Rocks #Might #Satisfaction

There's huge satisfaction in that, but I've got to credit all the doctors and trainers in Cleveland.
-- Bob Wickman

#Doctors #Satisfaction #Cleveland

It seems like people get afraid of a certain music if they can't pigeonhole it to their satisfaction... Good music is good music, and that should be enough for anybody.
-- Bradley Nowell

#Music #People #Satisfaction

Everyone is in the business of customer satisfaction.Wh o are your customers and how are they doing?
-- Brian Tracy

#Satisfaction #Customer Satisfaction

As a head-hunter I get a lot of satisfaction from seeing my candidates do well and therefore my clients happy. I want to work with clients more as a partner than simply a head-hunter.
-- Bruce Bennett

#Hunters #Want #Satisfaction

That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can't get no satisfaction.
-- Bruce Forsyth

#Sorry #Years #Satisfaction

I love an art which allows me to document my place in this mix... This is my past and my future. It has its own logic and finally, its own sense of fulfillment.
-- Burton Silverman

#Art #Past #Satisfaction

The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Way #Satisfaction #Pleasure

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Love And Friendship #Desire #Satisfaction

At times I come across works of mine which are soundly done and really in my style, and at such moments I find great solace.
-- Camille Pissarro

#Style #Done #Satisfaction

If we succeeded, we will have the primary satisfaction of ending the war
-- Carl Andrew Spaatz

#War #Satisfaction

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
-- Charles Baudelaire

#Beauty #Apathy #Satisfaction

There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.
-- Charles Kennedy

#Events #Satisfaction #Argument

If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Christian #Satisfaction #Pleasure

I made 'Batman' the way I made every other film, and I've done it to my own satisfaction - because the film, truly, is exactly the way I wanted it to be.
-- Christopher Nolan

#Done #Way #Satisfaction

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Giving #Littles #Satisfaction

I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom.
-- Cindy Crawford

#Mom #Self Esteem #Satisfaction

All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
-- Clarence Darrow

#Men #Wish #Satisfaction

The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose.
-- Cornelius Lanczos

#Community #Musical #Satisfaction

The sugary taste of satisfaction is bliss.
-- Courtney Stodden

#Taste #Satisfaction #Bliss

I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think.
-- Craig Ferguson

#Thinking #Satisfaction

There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly a group of adults
-- Curtis W. Fentress

#Adults #Groups #Satisfaction

Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.
-- Dalai Lama

#Finals #Satisfaction #Computer

Human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself.
-- Dalai Lama

#Satisfaction #Humans #Oneself

There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Errors #Degrees #Satisfaction

I'm not rich because I invented VisiCalc, but I feel that I've made a change in the world. That's a satisfaction money can't buy.
-- Dan Bricklin

#World #Satisfaction #Rich

A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.
-- Dana Spiotta

#Coherence #Satisfaction #Authenticity

Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction
-- Dashiell Hammett

#Real #Satisfaction #Substitutes

The satisfaction comes from working next to 500 photographers and coming away with something different.
-- David Burnett

#Different #Satisfaction #Next

Victory over others brings us satisfaction, but victory over ourselves brings us joy.
-- David Hawkins

#Joy #Victory #Satisfaction

When someone breaks up with you, their beauty-- which you took such satisfaction in-- suddenly becomes unfair.
-- David Levithan

#Satisfaction #Unfair #Break

Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God
-- David Platt

#Satisfaction #Found #Ultimate

The best way to insure you achieve the greatest satisfaction out of life is to behave intentionally.
-- Deborah

#Way #Satisfaction #Life Is

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
-- Denis Waitley

#Important #Satisfaction #Ingredients

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
-- Don Herold

#People #Satisfaction #Poverty

I get great satisfaction from both business and philanthropy.
-- Donald Bren

#Satisfaction #Philanthropy

I like to deliver more than I promise instead of the other way around.
-- Dorothy Uhnak

#Promise #Way #Satisfaction

There's always a little bit of personal satisfaction when you prove somebody wrong.
-- Drew Brees

#Littles #Satisfaction #Prove

I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.
-- Edgar Quinet

#Satisfaction #Infinity #Mistrust

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Feelings #Satisfaction #Firsts

There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.
-- Edward Abbey

#Abiding #Satisfaction #Unshakable

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

#Soulmate #Giving #Satisfaction

The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.
-- Elizabeth Janeway

#Marriage #Comfort #Satisfaction

Now comes what I perhaps inflatedly call my philosophy of knitting. Like many philosophies, it is hard to express in a few words. Its main tenets are enjoyment and satisfaction, accompanied by thrift, inventiveness, an appearance of industry, and, above all, resourcefulness.
-- Elizabeth Zimmermann

#Philosophy #Knitting #Satisfaction

There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.
-- Ellen Glasgow

#Success #Men #Satisfaction

Unfortunately, satisfaction is linked partly to results
-- Emma Pooley

#Satisfaction #Results

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.
-- Emma Thompson

#Pie #Satisfaction #Faces

If you are thinking of nything with dependence upon it, there is a motive of curiosity, or pleasure, or success, and though the thinking will help towards satisfaction you will still be in bondage. There is no harm in this, but the higher samadhi, without such motives, is best.
-- Ernest Wood

#Thinking #Curiosity #Satisfaction

Anybody who is anybody seems to be getting a lift - by plastic surgery these days. It's the new world wide craze that combines the satisfactions of psychoanalysis, massage, and a trip to the beauty salon.
-- Eugenia Sheppard

#World #Satisfaction #Massage

Why look any further if you've discovered complete satisfaction.
-- Eva Hoffman

#Looks #Satisfaction

Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
-- Ezra Pound

#Stars #Satisfaction

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Cheating #Struggle #Satisfaction

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Wise #Satisfaction #Faults

I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Art #Work #Satisfaction

There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Law #Satisfaction #Pleasure

I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.
-- Gabriela Sabatini

#Giving #Tennis #Satisfaction

I’ve seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities.
-- Garry Kasparov

#Mistake #Opportunity #Satisfaction

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it
-- Garry Marshall

#Writing #Satisfaction #Feels

When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing, when your activities and actions become gratifying and purposeful, when what you do serves both yourself and others, when you do not tire within but seek the sweet satisfaction of your life and your work, you are doing what you were meant to be doing.
-- Gary Zukav

#Sweet #Satisfaction #Were Meant To Be

With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.
-- Geddy Lee

#Fleeting #Littles #Satisfaction