Satisfaction Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of satisfaction quotes and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“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

“I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.”
– Alan Greenspan

“The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one’s neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.”
– Aleister Crowley

“I’ve always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I’m making sense of the world and imposing order on it.”
– Alexander McCall Smith

“There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.”
– Alexander McQueen

“The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.”
– Alexis de Tocqueville

“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

“If the opponent offers keen play I don’t object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic.”
– Anatoly Karpov

“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

“Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.”
– Angela Carter

“Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That’s human nature.”
– Anna Sui

“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”
– Anne Frank

“Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.”
– Arnold Bennett

“Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature’s cupboard for their satisfaction.”
– Arthur Keith

“A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

“I won’t back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.”
– Ashton Eaton

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

“The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.”
– B. C. Forbes

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

“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

“When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.”
– Bob Newhart

“I have so much satisfaction in my life. I have a beautiful wife and the great stimulation of an interesting career. I’m the most happy fellow that I know.”
– Brendan Fraser

“Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction.”
– Brendon Burchard

“Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.”
– Camille Paglia

“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

“In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?”
– Charles de Gaulle

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

“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

“Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.”
– Christopher Reeve

“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. I feel lucky because I have the luxury of working only one or two days a week.”
– Cindy Crawford

“I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think.”
– Craig Ferguson

“I used to think that if I had success I would have freedom. But I have less freedom now than I’ve ever had. And what gives me satisfaction is not the jewelry and not the cars. What gives me satisfaction is doing things for others, like children.”
– Criss Angel

“Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.”
– Daniel Boone

“It’s better to be hurt by the truth than to gain satisfaction from the lies.”
– David Allan

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