Best 527 quotes in «satisfaction quotes» category

I studied medicine so I could help others - set a leg or whatever - and it's given me a great deal of satisfaction.

I swear, every person I know gets far more satisfaction from doing good deeds than receiving them. Maybe that’s the whole point in the end, all of us putting up with good deeds, tolerating them as best we can, counting the minutes until we have the opportunity to reciprocate.

It amazes me when I hear any person prefer blindness to deafness. Such a person must have a terrible dread of being alone. Blindness makes one totally dependent on others, and deprives us of every satisfaction that results from light.

It is now an accepted fact that the expression of emotion through painting... is a source of deep psychological satisfaction... It is a system which can also in some measure, even compensate for the lack of emotional fulfilment in human relationships.

I think sometimes people really require the satisfaction of closure.

It is with great satisfaction that I learned of the adoption by consensus of the Durban Declaration against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and the intolerance associated with it

It is the small steps which bring you satisfaction at the end of the day.

It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.

It would give me a terrific sense of satisfaction to be the man who sent both Eubank and Benn into retirement. Benn doesn't need me to tell him that he's over the hill because, deep down, he knows it.

It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.

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

I will never be satisfied, like the Olympics.

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

I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like that which follows good and shared love.

I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.

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

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

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

Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his position to the satisfaction of our creative freedom.

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

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

Letters were first invented for consoling such solitary wretches as myself. Having lost the substantial pleasures of seeing and possessing you, I shall in some measure compensate this loss by the satisfaction I shall find in your writing.

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.

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

Loyal customers, they don't just come back, they don't simply recommend you, they insist that their friends do business with you.

Making a woman laugh. What is that about? And the prettier the woman, the more satisfaction I get. It doesn't make any sense, but I'm being honest.

Maybe we don’t recognize satisfaction because it is disguised as radical generosity, a strange misnomer in a consumer culture.

Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament; You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person; you're giving to the relationship.

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.

Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with all that was uncapturable except in thought. It was without satisfaction.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

My family life is a deep source of satisfaction.

Nobody's ever satisfied until they've been dead a good week.

Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction.

Nothing compares with the satisfaction of pleasing the heart of our heavenly Father.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.

No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.

Nothing in this world came out of satisfaction. Except the human race.

Not enough people realize the satisfaction you can get from really pushing yourself to the limits.

One of life's minor satisfactions is forgetting.

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.

Now is the time for us to stop seeking our own satisfaction and to pour out our lives before HIM.

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.