Satisfaction Quotations

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

As a head-hunter I get a lot of satisfaction from seeing my candidates do well and therefore my clients happy. I want to work with clients more as a partner than simply a head-hunter.

I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.

I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfaction in life is difficult. Maybe being happy is as simple as not being unhappy.

Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it

Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.

I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction.

I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great offence to some, but to my Satisfaction.

There's always a little bit of personal satisfaction when you prove somebody wrong.

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.

For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isnt about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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

One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.

Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.

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

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.

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable.

That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can't get no satisfaction.

I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction.

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

My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.

Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

There's such a feeling of satisfaction when something you imagined turned into something real.

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

Never eat while doing something else, because you won't get the satisfaction from your food and you'll be more likely to overeat.

I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction.

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.

Im a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.

You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.

A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.

Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction

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

One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

I think sometimes people really require the satisfaction of closure.

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.

A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.

There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.

It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.

Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction

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

Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.

I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the truth. I had such satisfaction afterward, and I thought, That's what I want to do.

I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

The satisfaction you get when you finally beat your dad is amazing, that rush of adrenaline.

At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as 'revolutionary.' But I have had the satisfaction of being invited to work in societies making progressive efforts without wavering. They were changing, and so they called on me.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.

French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.

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

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.

They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I'm searching for, or searching to express.

I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom.

We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go.

Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.

I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be doing something else. I'm a musician.

I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.

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.

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

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.

In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.

A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.

The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they're not movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.

We know that the French are very different from the Americans in their satisfaction with life. They're much less satisfied. Americans are pretty high up there, while the French are quite low - the world champions in life satisfaction are actually the Danes.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

I've found a woman I can relate to. That's something - and I don't even feel sappy saying it - that, if anyone has that, don't lose it, because it's probably the only thing that you can ever really find any satisfaction from.

If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right.

I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.