Satisfaction Quotes

• As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Ambition, Long

  Overruled (1916) p. 72

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• Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life he could not have kept two of these young creatures satisfactorily refreshed, even if he had fifteen experts to help him. Necessarily almost the entire thousand had to go hungry for years and years on a stretch. Conceive of a man hardhearted enough to look daily upon all that suffering and not be moved to mitigate it.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Two, Years

  Mark Twain (2008). “Letters from the Earth: Easyread Edition”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things which they had not previously thought attainable, sometimes works a sort of industrial revolution in a country whose resources were previously undeveloped for want of energy and ambition in the people: inducing those who were satisfied with scanty comforts and little work, to work harder for the gratification of their new tastes, and even to save, and accumulate capital, for the still more complete satisfaction of those tastes at a future time.

  John Stuart Mill

  Country, Ambition, Hard Work

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “Principles of Political Economy: Mill's Works”, p.237, VM eBooks

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• So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain't led no hum-drum life.

  Winston Groom

  Looks, Happened, I Can

  Winston Groom (2002). “Forrest Gump”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.

  Temple Grandin

  Intellect

  Interview With Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com.

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• This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Complaining, Life Is, This Life

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.188

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• God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.

  Sivananda

  Self, Eternal, Self Contained

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• Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

  Meir Kahane

  Men, Judging, Worthwhile

  Meir Kahane (1973). “Meir Kahane--writings (5732-33): Selected Writings by Meir Kahane from the Year 5732-33 (1971-73).”

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• The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Sports, Pain

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• The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make to them; a man may live long, yet get little from life. Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will - Montaigne, Essays

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Life, Lying, Men

  FaceBook post by Barbara Taylor Bradford from Sep 20, 2013

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• We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

  Jeff Bezos

  Success, Jobs, Business

  "Online Extra: Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.

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• A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Spiritual, Educational

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• One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching

  Gerard Way

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.

  Paul Cezanne

  Sun, Satisfied, Copies

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• If a painting of mine suits me, it is right. If it does not please me, I care not if all the great masters should approve it or the dealers buy it. They would be wrong.

  Arshile Gorky

  Please Me, Doe, Would Be

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• It is the satisfaction we derive from 'going there' in contrast to the satisfaction derived from 'getting there.' Recreation provides 'the pause that refreshes.' It recreates creators.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Recreation, Contrast, Creator

  Russell L. Ackoff (1994). “The Democratic Corporation: A Radical Prescription for Recreating Corporate America and Rediscovering Success”, p.62, Oxford University Press

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• The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
  [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux,
  Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Unfortunate, Fastidious

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• Well done is better than well said.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Satisfaction In Life, Years

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 20, 1595.

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• Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Envy, Earth

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.48, Canongate Books

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• There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

  Salvador Dali

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

  Holly Black

  Cat, Curiosity, Ifs

  Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Lying, Punishment, Guilt

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.110, Faber & Faber

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• You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.55, Lulu.com

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