George Washington Quotes

I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction.

George Washington

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• There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Credit
  • Satisfaction
  • Truck

• Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Good
  • Wealth
  • Satisfaction

• Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.

  

  Ted Knight
  • Crazy
  • Retired
  • Anytime

• I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Me
  • Thought
  • Tennis

• From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Happy
  • Retired
  • Racing Driver

• I'm retired from the daredevil business.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Business
  • Retired
  • Daredevil

• I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.

  

  Sacheen Littlefeather
  • Awards
  • Retired
  • Academy

• In societies where one sees a higher prevalence of 'modern values' - individualism, vitalism and self-expression - there's also higher reported job satisfaction.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Job
  • Values
  • Satisfaction

• With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.

  

  Jack Black
  • Acting
  • Satisfaction
  • Brains

• Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Happiness
  • Satisfaction

• For me, I find that even though I've accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn't give me a sense of satisfaction.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Life
  • Things
  • Find

• I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Afraid
  • Knowing
  • Satisfaction

• Had I found the back of the net it would have been a double satisfaction but I've scored many goals and the important thing was for me to play well.

  

  Alessandro Del Piero
  • Important
  • Goals
  • Satisfaction

• There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • Disappointment
  • Despair
  • Satisfaction

• The making of money, the accumulation of material power, is not all there is to living...and the man who misses this truth misses the greatest joy and satisfaction that can come into his life -- service for others.

  

  Edward Bok
  • Life
  • Money
  • Power

• I can't get no satisfaction.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Satisfaction
  • Can't Get

• I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Think
  • Career
  • Satisfaction

• But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an extremist for love: “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.”

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Love
  • Jesus
  • Satisfaction

• The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.

  

  Niklaus Wirth
  • Work
  • Satisfaction
  • Ingenious

• The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Joys
  • Priceless
  • Fellowship

• There is nothing there - no soul - there is only this question about after death. The question has to die now to find the answer - your answer; not my answer - because the question is born out of the assumption, the belief, that there is something to continue after death.

  

  U.G. Krishnamurti
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Die

• I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction.

  

  George Washington
  • Satisfaction
  • Solitary
  • Retired