Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.

Samuel Johnson

We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.

Henry David Thoreau

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.

Friedrich Schiller

Satisfy a few to please many is bad.

Eli Manning

I literally and truly don't care how many points I score. I get far more satisfaction out of doing the other things that make us winners.

Lord Kelvin

I have no satisfaction in formulas unless I feel their numerical magnitude.

David Burnett

The satisfaction comes from working next to 500 photographers and coming away with something different.

Charles Baudelaire

It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.

Edgar Quinet

I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

Arthur Conan Doyle

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

Charles Kennedy

There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.

Drew Brees

There's always a little bit of personal satisfaction when you prove somebody wrong.

Donald Bren

I get great satisfaction from both business and philanthropy.

Dalai Lama

Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.

Dalai Lama

Human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself.

David Platt

Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God

Ambrose Bierce

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.

T. D. Jakes

When you're living by instinct, then you will naturally enhance everything and everyone around you. In other words, success will come naturally! When both your intellect and instincts are aligned, then producing the fruits of your labors brings satisfaction beyond measure.

Robert Henri

Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction.

Roger Corman

I love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money.

Roman Polanski

I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction.

Storm Jameson

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

Sylvia Plath

There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get.

Todd Gitlin

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

Mick Jagger

I can't get no satisfaction.

Theophile Gautier

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.

Theodore Parker

The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.

Max Mosley

I feel my task is done. I feel a sense of satisfaction, ... It's the moment and I seized it.

Max Lucado

Choose satisfaction over salary. Better to be happy with little than miserable with much.

Matthew Henry

They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.

Martin Seligman

Money, amazingly, is losing its power... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy.