Satisfaction quotes
448 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow."
"I insist you to strive. Work, Work and only work for satisfaction with patience, humbleness and serve thy nation."
"Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves"
"You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living."
"Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction."
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"The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction."
"In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that."
"Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have."
"Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle."
"I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise."
"It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction."
"You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face."
"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."
"There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors."
"Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human satisfaction."
"She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game"
"With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it."
"Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections."
"What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring."
"Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life."
"There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion."
"Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can."
"Ideologies - isms which to the satisfaction of their adherents can explain everything and every occurence by deducing it from a single premise - are a very recent phenomenon ... Not before Hitler and Stalin were the great political potentialities of the ideologies discovered."
"This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction."
"The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer."
