Satisfaction Quotes

I joined Twitter and you read a lot of the comments. You're biting your lip and you want to reply but you know a headline will be made from it and you don't want to give people the satisfaction.

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

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

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

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.

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.

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

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.

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

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

But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.

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 worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled.

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

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

I can't get no satisfaction.

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

I get an incredible thrill and satisfaction from seeing somebody with Apple's tell-tale white earbuds. But I'm constantly haunted by thoughts of, is it good enough? Is there any way we could have made it better?

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

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

Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

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

There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.

I wanted something that had the feel of a complete band and a variety of instrument. Apart from doing the album for musical satisfaction, I felt it was an important statement for other women - showing you don't have to rely on other people to do things for you.