Satisfied Quotes
1275 quotes by 962 authors
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The key to contentment is to consider. Consider who you are and be satisfied with that. Consider what you have and be satisfied with that.…
— Luci Swindoll
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It's the same in the office, the lab, the factory. Employees and coworkers are more productive, more loyal - satisfied and happy - when they…
— Wayne D. Dosick
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The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented Easterners are satisfied…
— Hu Shih
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I'm young. You can't just sit there and be satisfied.
— Ester Dean
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I'm young. You can't just sit there and be satisfied. People are like, "You've got all these number ones!" "Yeah...what else?" It all translates into…
— Ester Dean
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I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course…
— John F. Kennedy
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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
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If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.
— Horace
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One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding; better those who push forward, who employ their enterprise,…
— Baltasar Gracian
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Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every…
— Pablo Picasso
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It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.
— Mary Oliver
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It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer…
— Henri Matisse
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Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done...
— Henri Matisse
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If I were in the government I would have a brigade of policemen assigned to keeping an eye on people who paint landscapes outdoors. Oh,…
— Edgar Degas
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My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time]…
— Claude Monet
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