Best 527 quotes in «satisfaction quotes» category

Im a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.

I'm good at killing, I'm known as a bullfighter who kills well, and that I can kill well, that I can compete technically with my male peers in my technique in killing, gives me satisfaction.

I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

In any case it is not normal to put into the satisfaction of mere curiosity the amount of time and effort that scientists put into their work.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.

I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.

In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.

Instinct seeks satisfaction. Love is free of all demands.

In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.

I presume that to the uninitiated the formulae will appear cold and cheerless; but let it be remembered that, like other mathematical formulae, they find their origin in the divine source of all geometry. Whether I shall have the satisfaction of taking part in their exposition, or whether that will remain for some more profound expositor, will be seen in the future.

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.

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

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

I think sometimes people really require the satisfaction of closure.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.

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 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.

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.

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

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