There's gotta be more to life than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me. — Stacie Orrico Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Be who you desire, its your life, none else but you only know your way to happiness, if others dont like, let… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
It is attachment to creatures and to self-satisfaction that weakens the blessings of love in your heart. You must die to all… — Margaret Mary Alacoque Copy Share Image
Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique. — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
My favourite writer is Beckett and I keep going back to wallow in his work like a deep pool of dark humour… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep… — Tom Jordan Copy Share Image
If the opponent is weak, your accommodation made yourself became cocky but accomplisheding to the powerful opponent is not only reflects your… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Most of us spend ourselves trying to be something that we’re not. And if we’d just spend that energy on growing into… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
We could become quite satisfied with ourselves because we are sitting in meditation and are endeavoring to practice the spiritual path. Such… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart,… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“True happiness cannot not be achieved through wealth, fame or action, But through love, modesty and self satisfaction.” — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated. — George Eliot 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
The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not. — George Michael Copy Share Image
The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing… — Anonymous 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
You get self-satisfaction from pushing yourself to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that… — Mary Lou Retton Copy Share Image
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
I think 'vegan' is a beautiful word. It is more than just a description for our diet. I see it as a… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was lying in bed this morning and saying to myself, 'the remarkable thing about Ethel is her stupendous self-satisfaction' when in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
When those who give charity do so without any sense of self-satisfaction and without any thought of reward, even a small gift… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed… — Meg Greenfield Copy Share Image
Sympathy is in great degree a result of the mood we are in at the moment; anger forbids the emotion. On the… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
