Satisfaction Proverbs

Sayings about Satisfaction

Better to satisfy the body than to tarnish the soul.~ Chinese Proverb

You cannot satisfy the whole world and your father.~ French Proverb

Forgiveness is more satisfying than revenge.~ Arabian Proverb

You don’t satisfy your hunger by watching others work.~ Armenian Proverbs

A man should go on living — if only to satisfy his curiosity.~ Yiddish Proverbs

What is new is pleasing and what is old is satisfying.~ Cuban Proverbs

Enough is better than too much. ~ German Proverbs

Quotations about Satisfaction

Our greatest joy and satisfaction comes from the act of giving.~ Leo Buscaglia

Great issues develop from small beginnings. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. ~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.~ Thomas A. Edison

Along the way of our service to others and community, we learn that a very large side benefit is an enormous sense of personal satisfaction, personal purpose and personal worth.~ Brian O’Connell

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.~ Author Unknown

When we have got it, we want something else. ~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.~ Salvador Dali

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance. ~ Marcus Valerius Martial

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.~ Faye Wattleton.

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

Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase. ~ Bible

I’d rather be dead than singing ”Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.~ Mick Jagger

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction, the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.~ St. Theresa of Lisieux

No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.~ Oliver Goldsmith

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. ~ Lao-Tzu

Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

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

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.~ Oscar Wilde

The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead.~ William C. Menninger

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.~ Mahatma Gandhi

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness — great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.~ Jim Rohn

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.~ Denis Waitley

To be able to look back upon one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice.~ Marcus Valerius Martial

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

One must desire something to be alive: perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.~ Margaret Deland

How I relate to my inner self influences my relationships with all others. My satisfaction with myself and my satisfaction with other people are directly proportional.~ Sue Atchley Ebaugh

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.~ James Branch Cabell

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.~ Anne Frank

A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.~ Benjamin Spock

Only when the money we earn is put to work for the benefit of others does it provide true satisfaction.~ Malcolm D. Maxwell

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

Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.~ Linus Pauling

I have been the recipient of love and service, therefore I can love and serve. There is great satisfaction in service to others, in …seeing people and their conditions change.~ Clarence E. Hodges

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.~ Henry David Thoreau

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

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.~ Norman Vincent Peale

Success is a peace of mind that is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.~ John Wooden

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.~ Geroge Lorimer

A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth. ~ Lao-Tzu

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.~ George Bernard Shaw

I am easily satisfied with the very best. ~ Winston Churchill

Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool. ~ Og Mandino

The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette. ~ Henry S. Haskins