Dissatisfied Quotes - Page 8

• Getting what you want will not change your life at the Being Level, so don't let what you have determine 'who you are', otherwise you will always feel dissatisfied.

  Robert Anthony

  Getting What You Want, Levels, Changing Your Life

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.60, Morgan James Publishing

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• The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

  Colin Wilson

  Men, Self, He Man

  Colin Wilson (2014). “The Outsider”, p.169, Diversion Books

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• One is never completely satisfied. But I can say that I'm not dissatisfied. I've been very fortunate. I've been given some gifts - to take advantage of the contemporary times when I made movies. Gifts to make audiences laugh.

  Frank Capra

  Laughing, Advantage, Made

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To be a leader is to be awake and alert, to be dissatisfied at all times

  Peter Koestenbaum

  Leader, Awake, All Time

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• If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.

  Barbara Jordan

  Way, Resolve, Ifs

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• I have always been politically active and vaguely dissatisfied with the state of news, but I wasn't sure why.

  Thomas Sadoski

  News, States, Active

  Source: collider.com

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• To be too dissatisfied with ourselves is a weakness. To be too satisfied with ourselves is a stupidity.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Stupid, Weakness, Satisfied

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• I had been a fashion photographer for over ten years, but I'd always been dissatisfied with what I was doing. It was all about selling people, and I got disheartened by the whole industry.

  Giles Duley

  Fashion, Years, People

  Interview with Lisa Rueff, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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• Always, at the end of every book, there are things you will be unsatisfied with, and still more things that later on you will realize were not right. But mistakes are part of what a book is. That itchy, dissatisfied feeling at the end of a novel is useful. It's what keeps you writing and gets you writing the next one. It's what keeps you learning.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Mistake, Book, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Want, Consumerism, Lullaby

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.230, Random House

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• The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

  Jane Austen

  Prejudice, World, Inconsistency

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.119

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• In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Morning, Rising, World

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.29, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Listen. I may not be much, but I'm all I've got. Maybe you need a magnifying glass to find my face in my high school graduation photo. Maybe I haven't got any family or friends. Yes, yes, I know all that. But, strange as it might seem, I'm not entirely dissatisfied with life... I feel pretty much at home with what I am. I don't want to go anywhere. I don't want any unicorns behind fences.

  Haruki Murakami

  Home, School, Glasses

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• When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be able to make us miserable or dissatisfied. And then, if we know we have pleased God, contentment will be our consolation.

  Kay Arthur

  Pleasing Others, Contentment, Able

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• There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

  Jane Austen

  Character, Thinking, People

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.119

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