It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
—Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American Clergyman, Self-Help Author
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
—Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American Inventor, Scientist, Entrepreneur
I’ve never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline… I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour-this greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear—is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle—victorious.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr. (1913–70) American Football Player, Coach
Forgiveness is more satisfying than revenge.
—Arabic Proverb
You can never get enough of the things you don’t need, because the things you don’t need can never satisfy.
—Marvin J. Ashton (1915–94) American Mormon Religious Leader
There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
—Salvador Dali (1904–89) Spanish Painter
He is rich that is satisfied.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian
You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.
—George Horace Lorimer (1867–1937) American Editor, Publisher, Philanthropist
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
—James Branch Cabell (1879–1958) American Author of Fantasy Fiction
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
—John Dryden (1631–1700) English Poet, Literary Critic, Playwright
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
—Anne Frank (1929–45) Holocaust Victim
We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals.
—John F. Kennedy (1917–63) American Head of State, Journalist
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 (1902–83) American Philosopher, Author
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
—Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German Philosopher
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.
—Tony Robbins (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
—E. O. Wilson (1929–2021) American Sociobiologist
Satisfaction with an experience depends significantly on our expectations going into it.
—Ben Casnocha (b.1988) American Entrepreneur
True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
—Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
—Plutarch (c.46–c.120 CE) Greek Biographer, Philosopher
Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American Head of State, Military Leader
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
—Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) Indian Head of State
I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
—Mick Jagger (b.1943) English Rock Singer, Songwriter
That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.
—Martial (40–104) Ancient Roman Latin Poet
When we don’t have what we like, we must like what we have.
—French Proverb
Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
—William Osler (1849–1919) Canadian Physician
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
To be able to look back upon one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
—Martial (40–104) Ancient Roman Latin Poet
No nation became great by becoming rich. Neither does a man find enduring satisfaction in life by owning something—only by becoming something.
—Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American Clergyman, Self-Help Author
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian