Best 527 quotes in «satisfaction quotes» category

I think sometimes people really require the satisfaction of closure.

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

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

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

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 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 will never be satisfied, like the Olympics.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 family life is a deep source of satisfaction.

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.

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.

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.

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

No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

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

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

Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war.