Self Satisfaction Quotes

49 quotes by 44 authors

• If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than… — Mortimer Adler
• There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation. — Kingman Brewster, Jr.
• San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness. — Herb Caen
• Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort… — Mary Lou Retton
• If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. — Alfred Nobel
• People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for… — Al-Ghazali
• Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success. — Denis Waitley
• 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 own little core… — George Eliot
• Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was… — Hugh Laurie
• However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more… — St. Vincent
• One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated. — George Eliot
• This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction. — Henry David Thoreau
• I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against… — John Steinbeck
• Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men. — Margery Allingham
• Should thoughts of self-praise, of self-satisfaction, occur to you, say: 'I myself am nothing; all that is good in me is accomplished by the grace… — John of Kronstadt
• There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a… — Meg Greenfield
• 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 is restlessness, anxiety,… — Jacques Monod
• There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give vent… — Alberto Moravia
• 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 achieved something that's… — Dan Wheldon
• By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from… — William Osler

Who Wrote These Self Satisfaction Quotes

44 authors contributed a total of 49 Self Satisfaction Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 4 Self Satisfaction Quotes by Mak_786
• 2 Self Satisfaction Quotes by John Wooden
• 2 Self Satisfaction Quotes by George Eliot
• 1 Self Satisfaction Quote by Steve Prefontaine
• 1 Self Satisfaction Quote by Joseph Brodsky
• 1 Self Satisfaction Quote by Martha Gellhorn
• 1 Self Satisfaction Quote by Dani Shapiro
• 1 Self Satisfaction Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 1 Self Satisfaction Quote by John Piper
• 1 Self Satisfaction Quote by Nicholas Sparks
• 1 Self Satisfaction Quote by Dalai Lama
• 1 Self Satisfaction Quote by Christopher Isherwood
• 1 Self Satisfaction Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• 1 Self Satisfaction Quote by Nirmala Srivastava
• 1 Self Satisfaction Quote by Ayya Khema
• 1 Self Satisfaction Quote by Elmer Rice
• 1 Self Satisfaction Quote by Mortimer Adler
• 1 Self Satisfaction Quote by Pacifiersucker
• 1 Self Satisfaction Quote by Herb Caen
• 1 Self Satisfaction Quote by Kingman Brewster, Jr.
• 1 Self Satisfaction Quote by Mary Lou Retton
• 1 Self Satisfaction Quote by Alfred Nobel
• 1 Self Satisfaction Quote by Al-Ghazali
• 1 Self Satisfaction Quote by Denis Waitley
• 1 Self Satisfaction Quote by Henry David Thoreau