The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The single most important thing is to make people happy. If you are making people happy, as a side effect, they will… — Derek Sivers Copy Share Image
The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience,… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
Of course if you are launching a new business you can thinking about revenues, profits, and so on, but metrics such as… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
You can't have whatever you want. But to a child who must ask permission for every single thing, adulthood looks like a… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Does art play a role in the greater good of society, or does it just promote the satisfaction of the artist? I… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
It is a human circumstance that when we are born we have not yet come into existence. We are lured into our… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo,… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Water and petrol both come from the earth, and though they seem to be alike and even the same, they are in… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say the purpose of making art is to enjoy it necessarily. For me, it happens to be the thing I… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
If a book has a predictable storyline or familiar situations, there's little satisfaction for me in writing it. A woman deciding which… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
Personal beauty is then first charming and itself, when it dissatisfies us with any end; when it becomes a story without an… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
The hossanas of the multitude can never bring satisfaction to the discerning. Yet there exist those chamaleons of popularity who find their… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
I love waking up in my home and being with my children and my husband. And I get an enormous amount of… — Marne Levine Copy Share Image
Making a woman laugh. What is that about? And the prettier the woman, the more satisfaction I get. It doesn't make any… — Larry David Copy Share Image
“It's not breaking the rules What I find makes fun. It is However outsmarting the system and finding a way around it… — Günther Schepp Larenas Copy Share Image
I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your… — Jane Pauley Copy Share Image
What counts is a way to get along with people that will bring us personal satisfaction and, at the same time, not… — Les Giblin Copy Share Image
The joy in motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times, but amid the challenges there are shining… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back… — Joe Elliott Copy Share Image
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of… — James Larkin Copy Share Image
Without a doubt, there's huge satisfaction when a relatively smaller nation can take on a bigger nation and defeat them. There's a… — Jim Courier Copy Share Image
From the driver's standpoint I had the same horrors, the same satisfactions, the same everything. The speed is relative. It's faster and… — Mario Andretti Copy Share Image
We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs of all… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
That's why I'm fighting, just to have some personal satisfaction, not necessarily because I want to get in the Hall of Fame.… — Dan Henderson Copy Share Image
Childhood ought to have at least a few entitlements that aren't entangled with utilitarian considerations. One of them should be the right… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
What I think the mentor gets is the great satisfaction of helping somebody along, helping somebody take advantage of an opportunity that… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
“Lemoine could feel himself becoming angry. It was pretty fucking irritating, he thought, that he was yet to go a single day… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
When you offer a vibration, the Universal forces are working in concert with each other in order to satisfy you. You really… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal… — John Updike Copy Share Image
