We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Should thoughts of self-praise, of self-satisfaction, occur to you, say: 'I myself am nothing; all that is good in me is accomplished… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
If you're sad because you didn't get what you wanted or wished for. Just think of this, there are people who are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in… — George Wald Copy Share Image
In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. (But) I always remember that… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
It's rather an exhilarating feeling. It's 6 or 7 when you get up and go out into the fields wearing your Wellingtons… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know… — Colin Greenland Copy Share Image
So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“Study, along the lines which the theologies have mapped, will never lead us to discovery of the fundamental facts of our existence.… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
What could I do with $1 million? What can I do with the satisfaction that I perhaps today helped somebody to have… — Mechai Viravaidya Copy Share Image
I remember, when I was 24, I said 34 was going to be the limit I will play to. But as everyone… — Edwin van der Sar Copy Share Image
Judging by informal observation, most young Americans burn up their spare time buffing their emotional IQ and self-esteem with social media and… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Films like 'Namo Venkateshaya' give immense satisfaction, happiness, and makes us feel blessed, and so I consider it the best film in… — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
Anybody who is anybody seems to be getting a lift - by plastic surgery these days. It's the new world wide craze… — Eugenia Sheppard Copy Share Image
I'm hanging in there, trying to spend as much quality time with my wife and kids as possible, and though it's very… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when he/she is right, the mature person need… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
Grandfather says that when your friends die you must not cry. You must not hurt anybody or do harm to anyone. You… — Wovoka Copy Share Image
I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as… — Jim Garrison Copy Share Image
The biggest thing for me is the self-satisfaction of winning the race. I don't care about who gets the most attention. I've… — Dan Wheldon Copy Share Image
When people ask me, 'Are you happy?' I respond with, 'You've asked the wrong question.' There is a deep kind of satisfaction… — David Ulevitch Copy Share Image
Without doubt, there are lots of ways to measure the pulse of a business. But if you have employee engagement, customer satisfaction,… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don't work. When you clean your house, you… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
All affected can accept the consequences and the side effects that [the norm's] general observance can be anticipated to have for the… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Everywhere I've managed, I've left a platform for my successor to build on, and this is a great satisfaction for me, even… — Roy Hodgson Copy Share Image
Behind the murder of millions of Negroes annually in Africa is the well organized system of exploitation by the alien intruders who… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
We usually think that a strong economy leads to an increase in life satisfaction among the population. We found that's not the… — David Blanchflower Copy Share Image
A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Shaunti wields the researcher's clipboard, the analyst's data, and the counselor's insight to bring the excellent newsflash that great marriages are the… — Anita Renfroe Copy Share Image
The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image