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Satisfaction Quotes

Words on what it really means to feel content.

This page gathers lines on satisfaction as something earned through service and honest effort rather than accumulation alone. Several reflect on how relationships and goals promise fulfillment they don't always deliver, while others tie contentment directly to helping others well. For a broader look at contentment in daily living, see Life quotes.

I don't like the word 'satisfaction' - never have. I don't think I'll be satisfied with anything, really, to be honest.

Quotes by Tom Coughlin

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...

Quotes by Thomas Wolfe

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

Quotes by Theophile Gautier

My only self-confidence and satisfaction comes from the people that I do meet; I have fondness for people. I mean, I like to hug. And I also like to be hugged.

Quotes by Teresa Heinz

I think we can find a formula that would be to everyone's satisfaction, which would make it possible for Croatia to take some more steps and for Europe to accept us into its midst, and for the talks to start.

Quotes by Stjepan Mesic

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

Quotes by Stewart Udall

While, in general, life satisfaction goes up with wealth, beyond the safety net more and more wealth brings very radically diminishing returns on life satisfaction.

Quotes by Steve Jurvetson

I don't shout from the rooftops or blow my own trumpet. But I take a lot of satisfaction from the players and staff at clubs who recognise what I've done.

Quotes by Steve Clarke

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

Quotes by Stan Getz

No amount of money can replace the kind of happiness and satisfaction I derive out of writing.

Quotes by Sreenivasan

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

Quotes by Sigmund Freud

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.

Quotes by Sigourney Weaver

Of all the named structures within the abdomen and the chest, those associated with reproduction retained the mysteries of their willful behavior long after others had been solved to the satisfaction of physicians and philosophers.

Quotes by Sherwin B. Nuland

The Scientific Revolution, that remarkable transformation of European thought that occurred between approximately 1550 and 1700, brought with it an ascendancy of the experimental method and the refusal to believe any explanation of natural phenomena that could not be proven...

Quotes by Sherwin B. Nuland

I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children's clothes online.

Quotes by Samantha Bee

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

Quotes by Salvador Dali

The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be...

Quotes by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways.

Quotes by Ron Chernow

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

Quotes by Roman Polanski

But I have the satisfaction, at the same time, to reflect that the impression to be made depends upon the consistency of the charge and the motives of the prosecutors.

Quotes by Robert Walpole

Together these quotes suggest satisfaction is less about getting more and more about doing something well. If you enjoyed this theme, browse Great quotes for related reflections on accomplishment.