Satisfaction Quotes

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We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea… — John F. Kennedy
If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy. — Horace
Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as… — Horace
There is no virtue which does not rejoice a well-descended nature; there is a kind of I know not what congratulation in well-doing, that gives… — Michel de Montaigne
When we have got it, we want something else. — Michel de Montaigne
The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others. — Eric Hoffer
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,… — Eric Hoffer
REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it. — Ambrose Bierce
REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction. — Ambrose Bierce
I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities... — Robert Frost
They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage; the requisite Means being wanting. — William Penn
Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction. — Katherine Mansfield
He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father. — Jean de La Fontaine
A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed… — James Joyce
Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do… — Leonardo da Vinci
There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure. — Unknown Author
The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art. — Pablo Picasso
Sacred or not, sacrifice is an ugly business. — Mason Cooley
Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool. — Og Mandino
What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power. — Bertrand Russell
Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done... — Henri Matisse
I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape… — Martha Graham
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. — Ezra Pound

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