Best 527 quotes in «satisfaction quotes» category

The only true satisfaction we can seek is the satisfaction of being obedient to the Lord.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

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.

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

The range of socially permissible and desirable satisfaction is greatly enlarged, but through this satisfaction, the Pleasure Principle is reduced deprived of the claims which are irreconcilable with the established society. Pleasure, thus adjusted, generates submission.

The qualities we possess should never be a matter for satisfaction, but the qualities we have discarded.

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

There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get.

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

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

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

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.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

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

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.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but the pen we take up rejoicing and lay down with satisfaction, for it has the power to advantage not only its lord and master, but many others as well, even though they be far away - sometimes, indeed, though they be not born for thousands of years to come.

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.

There is nothing glamorous in what I do. I'm a working man. Perhaps I’m luckier than most in that I receive considerable satisfaction from doing useful work which I, and sometimes others, think is good.

There's a certain satisfaction in a little bit of pain.

There is satisfaction in seeing one's household prosper; in being both bountiful and provident.

There's no satisfaction without a struggle first.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

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.

There's gotta be more to life than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me.

There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet they are. Mick Jagger [used to say] we're not going to be doing Satisfaction when I'm in a wheelchair.

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

The satisfaction comes because you work hard and it pays off. It is not as glamorous as I thought it would be, but, you know, I appreciate it more than I ever knew I would, and I love it more than I ever knew I would.

The satisfaction you get when you finally beat your dad is amazing, that rush of adrenaline.

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

There's such a feeling of satisfaction when something you imagined turned into something real.

The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities. Demonization is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. The test is not absolute satisfaction but balanced dissatisfaction.

There's so much pressure put on relationships to deliver the satisfaction of life. And to me, that is just not the answer. I feel like it should be something in addition to what you love or be a part of that.

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.

The windy satisfaction of the tongue.

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.

The sugary taste of satisfaction is bliss.

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

This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.

Those whose primary concern is to destroy others are at the lowest level of development. Those who are only interested in their own satisfaction are farther along. Those who both do things for their own satisfaction and the satisfaction of others are even father along. Then there are saints who just constantly live for the welfare of others.

Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him; but Aristotle thought God through logically, and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.

Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.

They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.

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.

To die whole, riddled with nothing but desire for it, is like breakfast after love.

To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose life has passed without a contest, and who can boast neither success nor merit, can survey himself only as a useless filler of existence; ad if he is content with his own character, must owe his satisfaction to insensibility.

Unfortunately, satisfaction is linked partly to results

Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

Unless you have 100% customer satisfaction, you must improve.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.