Satisfaction Quotes

• To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

  Walt Whitman

  Spiritual, Truth, Soul

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.748, NYU Press

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• What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.

  Anna Pavlova

  Success, Women, Exactly Is

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• He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

  Epictetus

  Positive, Happiness, Thank You

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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

  Mick Jagger

  Stupid, Singing, Complaining

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

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• Human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself.

  Dalai Lama

  Humans, Human Happiness, Oneself

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.36, Penguin Books India

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• When you offer a vibration, the Universal forces are working in concert with each other in order to satisfy you. You really are the center of the Universe.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Work

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• Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction

  Victoria Principal

  Agents

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• The satisfaction that I get from doing what I do is not what I thought. I thought it would be that I'd feel like a star, I'd feel important. But I don't

  Lee Ann Womack

  Stars, Important, Would Be

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• A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Bars, Pursuit, Chiefs

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• With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.

  Geddy Lee

  Fleeting, Littles, Restless

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• In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

  John Selden

  Book, Names, May

  John Selden (1856). “The table-talk of John Selden, with a biogr. preface and notes by S.W. Singer”, p.23

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• The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

  Eric Hoffer

  Feelings, Opiates, Poison

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.

  W. H. Auden

  Moving, Mean, Men

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• In my line of business, there's no better feeling than having a real nice work that you're really satisfied with.

  Gregg Allman

  Real, Nice, Feelings

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• Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Reason Why, Reason, Please

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• Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.

  Henri Matisse

  Artist, Done, Satisfied

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• Nothing gives quite the satisfaction that doing things brings.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Giving

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• At times I come across works of mine which are soundly done and really in my style, and at such moments I find great solace.

  Camille Pissarro

  Style, Done, Moments

  Camille Pissarro, Lucien Pissarro (1943). “Camille Pissarro: letters to his son Lucien”

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• Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.

  James Cash Penney

  Giving, Matter, Profit

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• Art is there for nourishment, not explication.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Art Is, Nourishment

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• A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Jealousy, Judging, Giving

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.199, Verso

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• Every great business is built on friendship.

  James Cash Penney

  Inspirational, Educational, Loyal Customers

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• I am easily satisfied with the very best.

  Winston Churchill

  Motivational, Sarcastic, Humorous

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• The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Secret, Evaluation

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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