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- 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
- 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… — Mary Lou Retton
- People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep… — Al-Ghazali
- 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
- 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
- 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
- One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated. — George Eliot
- I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in… — 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… — 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… — Meg Greenfield