Quotes about Satisfaction
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
— Laurence Sterne
Power is like salt water; the more you drink, the thirstier you get.
— Charles Colson
If nothing worse than Ale happens to us, we are well off.
— Charles Dickens
A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety and nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stocks snuggles into your heart in the same way.
— Mark Twain
No man that lives can satisfy everybody. The recipe for perfect peace is, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
— Elbert Hubbard
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough.
— Pope Benedict XVI
It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.
— Euripides
I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?
— Kathleen Norris
Passion gives you what you want, lust gives you what you desire, but only love gives you what you need.
— Matshona Dhliwayo