Satisfaction Quotes

• We also planted trees - it became a hobby, for we had discovered what a satisfaction it can be to watch a tree grow and develop. Sometimes a tree will turn out better than any of a man's children, and a tree will endure - its life will outlast our life.

  

  Ben Robertson
  • Develop
  • Discovered
  • Hobby

• I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every acquisition. There was a time when I believed that this alone could constitute the honor of mankind, and I had contempt for the ignorant rabble who know nothing.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Knowledge
  • I Believe
  • Satisfaction

• The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • People
  • Life
  • Passion

• We can achieve the utmost in economies by engineering knowledge; we can conquer new fields by research; we can build plants and machines that shall stand among the wonders of the world; but unless we put the right man in the right place-unless we make it possible for our workers and executives alike to enjoy a sense of satisfaction in their jobs, our efforts will have been in vain.

  

  Edward Stettinius, Jr.
  • Knowledge
  • Achieve
  • Research

• The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Poverty
  • Satisfaction
  • Bother

• 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
  • Ambition
  • Resources
  • Foreign Trade

• I'm not rich because I invented VisiCalc, but I feel that I've made a change in the world. That's a satisfaction money can't buy.

  

  Dan Bricklin
  • World
  • Feels
  • Rich

• There is nothing I have to reflect on that gives me more satisfaction than the fact that my life is insured for the benefit of my Dear Wife and children.

  

  Ezra Cornell
  • Children
  • Wife
  • Reflect

• I think that he Michael Jackson did derive an ultimate sense of joy and satisfaction in what others enjoyed from him that was denied to himself. There's no question that the transcendent art that he created was a means, an instrument, a vehicle for others to experience what he didn't.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Art
  • Joy
  • Mean

• The yearning for study was always there. I loved to learn. I really enjoyed tudying history. Taking college classes was just something I wanted to do. It gave me such a feeling of satisfaction.

  

  Nola Ochs
  • Study
  • Enjoy
  • Satisfaction

• Satisfaction is the death of ambition.

  

  Nikki Yanofsky
  • Death
  • Ambition
  • Satisfaction

• By sending Lenin to Russia our German Government had, moreover, assumed a great responsibility. From a miliaty point of view his journey was justified, for Russia had to be laid low. But our Government should have seen to it that we also were not involved in her fall. The events in Russia gave me no cause for complete satisfaction. They considerably eased the military situation, but elements of the greatest danger still remained.

  

  Boris Brasol
  • Government
  • Fall
  • Responsibility

• I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and the satisfaction of accompanying the early volumes of the series with this preface.

  

  James Loeb
  • Work
  • Satisfaction
  • Prefaces

• The best stroked putt in a lifetime does not bring the aesthetic satisfaction of a perfectly hit wood or iron shot. There is nothing to match the whoosh and soar, the almost magical flight of a beautifully hit drive or 5-iron.

  

  Al Barkow
  • Lifetime
  • Drive
  • Flight

• Now each race is different every time because it's a different journey to get to it - the difficulties you faced getting the car into that position. I manage myself. I chose my team myself. So there's a huge satisfaction for me.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • Time
  • Different
  • Team

• Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.

  

  Carrie Chapman Catt
  • Life
  • Real
  • Helping

• You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Needs
  • Degrees
  • Walks

• Shaunti wields the researcher's clipboard, the analyst's data, and the counselor's insight to bring the excellent newsflash that great marriages are the culmination of definable, repetitive micromovements that add up to deep relationship satisfaction.

  

  Anita Renfroe
  • Relationship
  • Satisfaction
  • Marriages

• I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Together
  • Moral
  • Satisfaction

• I'm now in a big working period, which takes me up so much that hardly anything of me remains. I have never been strong in theories and this becomes worse and worse. My work should give me satisfaction, and that is about life and death.. .Several paintings full of life and beauty arose again and give me the courage and joy to proceed on the road. There are also several paintings in which I am involved for less than half, discharges in a short time, which have existence for a while, but will not reach shaping.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Death
  • Existence
  • Reach

• We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Believe
  • Civilization
  • Created

• Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it isn't easy to think of the needs of others. But I have found that if, instead of praying for my own comfort and satisfaction, I ask the Lord to enable me to give to others, an amazing thing often happens - I find my own needs wonderfully met. Refreshment comes in ways I would never have thought of, both for others, and then, incidentally, for myself.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Needs
  • Praying
  • Produce

• They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage; the requisite Means being wanting.

  

  William Penn
  • Mean
  • Satisfaction

• Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Satisfaction
  • Hunger

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