Satisfaction Quotes

• Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Faith
  • Satisfaction
  • Leads

• I don't want to be singing Satisfaction when I'm 40.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Singing
  • Satisfaction
  • Don't Want

• Satisfaction isn't a state that comes easily to me.

  

  Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
  • State
  • Satisfaction
  • Come

• I didn't get any satisfaction from their reasoning.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Satisfaction
  • Reasoning

• Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that affection may spur them to their duty, and make them find a pleasure in complying with his dictates. This will bring them with satisfaction to their tutor; make them hearken to him, as to one who is their friend, that cherishes them, and takes pains for their good; this will keep their thoughts easy and free, whilst they are with him, the only temper wherein the mind is capable of receiving new information, and of admitting into itself those impressions.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Teach
  • Affection
  • Dictates

• Love has a way of showing you to yourself, whether through satisfaction or humiliation. It hovers over you like a magnifying glass you cannot escape, intensifying the slightest feelings of either delight or shame. No other experience makes so obvious the realities of both heaven and hell.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Love
  • Way
  • Delight

• Of course advertising creates wants. Of course it makes people discontented, dissatisfied. Satisfaction with things as they are would defeat the American Dream.

  

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
  • People
  • American
  • Dream

• What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Knowledge
  • Tragic
  • Characteristic

• Psychological wealth includes life satisfaction, the feeling that life is full of meaning, a sense of engagement in interesting activities, the pursuit of important goals, the experience of positive emotional feelings, and a sense of spirituality that connects people to things larger than themselves.

  

  Ed Diener
  • Experience
  • Goals
  • Spirituality

• I now derive physical and spiritual pleasure from gardening and there is tremendous satisfaction in knowing that I could survive almost anywhere if I had to.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Pleasure
  • Satisfaction
  • Gardening

• Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Pain
  • Force
  • Human Race

• I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.

  

  Van Jones
  • Deep
  • Ends
  • Radical

• The program is meant to increase job satisfaction and provide greater motivation for employees. We expect the training program to be a catalyst in enhancing overall competitiveness of the company, while contributing to the personal development of the employees.

  

  Abdullah Ibrahim
  • Job
  • Satisfaction
  • Increase

• There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Life
  • Family
  • Job

• Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged!

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Knowing
  • Satisfaction
  • Punished

• To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. . . . For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Duty
  • Minds
  • Satisfaction

• What are you gonna fill your life up with when you don't have that ultimate satisfaction or peace in your life? You try to fill it up with wealth, pleasure, honor, power, sex, drugs and Rock and Roll to try to feel good.

  

  Dion
  • Trying
  • Feel
  • Honor

• Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Mean
  • Humility
  • Satisfaction

• I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Singing
  • Dead
  • Satisfaction

• I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also!

  

  Martin Luther
  • Death
  • Deserve
  • Jesus Christ

• The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • People
  • Satisfaction
  • Chains

• We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • People
  • Vanity
  • Presumptuous

• I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.

  

  William Clay Ford, Jr.
  • Money
  • Power
  • Happiness

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

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • Possession
  • Infinity
  • Mistrust

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