Satisfaction Quotations | Page 4

I decided not to give the haters the satisfaction that they got me so bad I gave up.

Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.

There's always a crisis somewhere, and you get the satisfaction of solving the problem. And then, there's always the mystery of whether a program will work or not, and waiting for the reviews or seeing what the audience figures are.

We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that.

The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized.

Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.

Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.

She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.

Individuals transform when there is a shift in the principle which orients their life from one of gaining satisfaction to one of expressing the satisfaction they've already got.

Transformation is the shift of the principle which orients the person’s life, which is ordinarily the principle of gaining satisfaction. Essentially what organizes life for most of us is an attempt to gratify our needs; our psychological needs, our material needs, our personal needs … Individuals transform when there’s a shift in the principle which orients their life from one of gaining satisfaction to one of expressing the satisfaction they’ve already got...

The faster we grew, the more stores we had open, the more money we made. Employees move quickly up the ranks of a company that's growing fast. Shareholders made a lot of money. If you invested $25,000 from January 1987 to January 1994, you'd have more than a million dollars. I get a lot of personal satisfaction from that.

I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.

I would like to inform you with great satisfaction of a new step forward on establishing partnership between Russia and Japan

The writers job is like solving a puzzle, and finally arriving at a solution is a tremendous satisfaction.

...Ori Kam is an outstanding violist who has already played as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra twice, much to our delight and satisfaction, and has availed himself with distinction.

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

My soul has learned yet more fully than ever, this day, that there is no satisfaction to be found in earthly things-God alone can give rest to my spirit.

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

My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence.

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.

Success rarely brings satisfaction.

Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships.

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

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.

You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

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.

Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow

There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.

You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track.

To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

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

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

There are two kinds of satisfaction or happiness: one mainly through mental peace; another physical comfort

Human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself.

Happiness arises as a result of different causes and conditions. If you harm someone out of anger, you may feel some superficial satisfaction, but deep down you know it was wrong. Your confidence will be undermined. However, if you have an altruistic attitude, you’ll feel comfortable and confident in the presence of others.

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

REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.

She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game

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

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?

What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit.

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us.

He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.

The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]

Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail.

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.

Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed.

There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.

The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.

I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane. It never is, sir. Lane, you're a perfect pessimist. I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.

Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction.

There is no great fun, satisfaction, or joy derived from doing something that's easy.

If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.

God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions.

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.

Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.

Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.

For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.

Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves.

Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.

One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well.

When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.

Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.

When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which again have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation... when I consider all this... I am silent.

Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.

Service to many leads to greatness- great respect, great satisfaction.

Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.

We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals.

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.

The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man.

Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred to.

Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.

Learn to convert the discomfort of discipline into the satisfaction of personal growth.

Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves

The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.

It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to which mankind is subject, if we could succeed in raising the responsible act of procreating children to the level of a deliberate and intentional activity and in freeing it from its entanglement with the necessary satisfaction of a natural need.

An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.

We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.

When you're living by instinct, then you will naturally enhance everything and everyone around you. In other words, success will come naturally! When both your intellect and instincts are aligned, then producing the fruits of your labors brings satisfaction beyond measure.

Like your home's closets, your financial clutter needs an overhaul every now and again, and the payoff will go far beyond the psychic satisfaction of neatening up.

When I started teaching I realized that I had never had such a level of satisfaction and such a feeling of fulfillment and sense of contribution. Just like that. But, usually it's more cumulative, slow, evolutionary and less revolutionary.

Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather than in the mere gratification and satisfaction of drives and instincts.