Satisfaction Quotes

It would be easier to fight the Russian army, and it would give me great satisfaction, but I have a responsibility to my people

Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

Success rarely brings satisfaction.

My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.

He [the Rev. Mr. Whitefield] used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard.

No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.

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

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

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

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

I guess it is the sense of personal satisfaction that racing gives you that I am probably going to miss, because in racing you get that feedback very quickly

Getting a burp out of your little thing when she needs it is probably the greatest satisfaction I've come across at this point in my life.

I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.

The air came laden with the fragrance it caught upon its way, and the bees, upborne upon its scented breath, hummed forth their drowsy satisfaction as they floated by.

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

There was a certain feminine satisfaction in having the last word, delivering her line smartly, and breaking the connection between them quickly and decisively.

George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secret; my strength.

The sugary taste of satisfaction is bliss.

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

Basically, a human being is a social animal. So, if you create some short moment of happiness for people, you get deep satisfaction.

You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.

The biggest thing for me is the self-satisfaction of winning the race. I don't care about who gets the most attention. I've achieved something that's very special to me.

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.

I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

The cosmos doesn’t measure sweat and hours for reward. The cosmos deals in the currencies of joy and satisfaction.

We usually think that a strong economy leads to an increase in life satisfaction among the population. We found that's not the case in Scotland.

To me there's a difference between success and satisfaction. A lot of people have success and no satisfaction. I'm after satisfaction. I

The gospel moves us to see others as people created in God's image and that can have a profound impact on people's productivity and work satisfaction.

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

Leaders who want to increase joy and success in the workplace must learn to take most of their personal satisfaction from the achievements of the people they lead, not from the power they exercise.

We don’t do what we do for the glory or the fame or the credit; we do it for the quiet satisfaction of making the world a better place, saving the lives of innocents, and being better than you are.

I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.

I get great satisfaction from both business and philanthropy.

Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.

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.

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

Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.

Unfortunately, satisfaction is linked partly to results

We can never have enough of that which we really do not want.

The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.

[Sigmund ] Freud assumes that every dream represents the satisfaction of adesire and in the last analysis, of a sexual desire that has its roots in infancy.

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

I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.

I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.

I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.

do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?

Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy.