Satisfaction Quotes

1419 Satisfaction quotes by 1014 unique authors

Are not our desires inseparably intertwined with the continuation of life? Even the idea of eliminating desire is fruitless. The desire to eliminate all desire… — Sadhu Sundar Singh
Satisfaction may be the goal of the common man; but it is the enemy of greatness — Garrison Wynn
Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction -… — Henry David Thoreau
Now comes what I perhaps inflatedly call my philosophy of knitting. Like many philosophies, it is hard to express in a few words. Its main… — Elizabeth Zimmermann
Your joy, your happiness, your satisfaction and your ability to dance with life, depends solely on what you pay attention to. — Susan Jeffers
Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems… — Robert Fitzgerald
With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession… — Samuel Eliot Morison
Short term satisfaction will never lead to something timeless. — Jack Dorsey
To me, the capacity to earn money has never been a measurement of success. It is my belief that people must develop a philosophy early… — Rudy Vallee
Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's… — Aaron Allston
I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what… — Vincent Gallo
...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which is in itself… — Henry James
[The scientist] believes passionately in facts, in measured facts. He believes there are no bad facts, that all facts are good facts, though they may… — Robert Watson-Watt
Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it… — Grenville Kleiser
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of… — Immanuel Kant
The main thing is to be honest with yourself, know and recognize your limits and attain maximum achievement within them. I would for example get… — Stirling Moss
We have so much, yet many Americans feel dissatisfied. Somehow the full table, symbol of abundance to the pilgrims, is not enough. We yearn for… — Jennifer James
There are few humanities that could surpass in discipline, in beauty, in emotional and aesthetic satisfaction, those humanities which are called mathematics, and the natural… — Robert Watson-Watt
There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in the still more… — Robert Watson-Watt
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with… — Wassily Kandinsky
I beg Our Lord, Monsieur, that we may be able to die to ourselves in order to rise with Him, that he may be the… — Vincent de Paul
[L]et us believe that all is going along the best in the world when we take no satisfaction in it, provided we humble ourselves for… — Vincent de Paul
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more… — Mark Twain
To sum up: I am the man who when the concern pressed him and his way was straitened and he could find no other device… — Maimonides
I see I have made myself a slave to Philosophy, but if I get free of Mr. Linus's business I will resolutely bid adew to… — Isaac Newton

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