Satisfied Quotes

The feeling of being happy or unhappy rarely depends on our absolute state, but on our perception of the situation, on our capacity to be satisfied with what we have.

The people who do better and better work are people who are never satisfied. Cezanne would say, 'I think I've accomplished something,' but then he would immediately add, 'But it's not enough.

He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.

Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better

I'm young. You can't just sit there and be satisfied.

Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.

My downfall made a great noise: those who appeared most satisfied criticized the manner of it.

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.

We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better... we never get satisfied.

If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.

Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It's the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.

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.

No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied.

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.

I ain't crazy, I'm just not satisfied.

Being satisfied with the status quo means you are not making progress

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.

Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.

The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished.

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer.

The moment love is equated with happiness, it is satisfied — and is no longer love. The satisfied, the happy ones, do not love; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

I'm an extremely slow worker, very unprolific. It can take me weeks to do a three-minute song, or at least to make it sound, in my mind, like I haven't written it. That's when I'm satisfied.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Friends in the Dharma, be satisfied with your own heads. Do not put any false heads above your own. Then, minute after minute, watch your step closely.

I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.

One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.

A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)

Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want.

It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.

[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.

A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness.

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

Nature was not satisfied by a simple point charge but required a charge with spin.

Learn to ask, "If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?"

Don't be satisfied with just pumping blood.

All individuals are different. Some of us just wouldn't be satisfied with just carrying out a routine job and being happy.

Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.

Are you satisfied being filled with good information about God, or do you long to burst into His manifest presence?

God is never satisfied with anything less than all.

Im not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins.