Quotes
Quotes about Satisfaction
Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
I have never felt that anything really mattered by the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
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.
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same wayâby finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
There is apparently some connection between dissatisfaction with oneself and proneness to credulity. The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious. The refusal to see ourselves as we are develops a distaste for facts and cold logic. There is no hope for the frustrated in the actual and the possible. Salvation can come to them only from the miraculous, which seeps through a crack in the iron wall of inexorable reality. They asked to be deceived.
The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.
It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction.
The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go, And pointed satire runs him through and through.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion. [Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.]
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance.
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
The windy satisfaction of the tongue.
