Satisfaction Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

31 Satisfaction Quotes
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“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.”
Malcolm S. Forbes Quotes
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed”
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
Mark Twain Quotes
“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.”
Margaret Thatcher Quotes
“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
Walt Whitman Quotes
“A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom so with others, and others as little pleased with him”
François de la Rochefoucauld Quotes
“A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.”
Madonna Quotes
“This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction”
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
“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 Quotes
“Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil: my cup runneth over.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Psalms (ch. XXIII, v. 6)
“He [Moliere] pleases every one but can not please himself. [Fr., Il plait a tout le monde et ne saurait se plaire.]”
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes
Source: Satires (II)
“No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect. [Fr., Nul n'est content de sa fortune; Ni mecontent de son esprit.]”
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes
Source: Satires (II)
“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.”
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes
Source: Satires (II)
“Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough. [Lat., Multa petentibus Desunt multa. Bene est, cui Deus obtulit Parca, quod satis est manu.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes
Source: Carmina (bk. III, 16, 42)
“If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy. [Lat., Sed tacitus pasci si posset corvus, haberet Plus dapis, et rixae multo minus invidiaeque.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes
Source: Epistles (I, 17, 50)
“Now, that's enough. [Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes
Source: Epistles (I, 5, 12)
“The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]”
Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
Source: Fables (II, 1)
“He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father. [Fr., Est bien fou du cerveau Qui pretend contenter tout le monde et son pere.]”
Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
Source: Fables (III, 1)
“Satisfy a few to please many is bad. [Ger., Mach' es Wenigen recht; vielen gefallen ist schlimm.]”
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Quotes
Source: Votivtafeln
“There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion. [Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes
Source: Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (VI)
“He is well paid that is well satisfied, And I delivering you am satisfied, And therein do account myself well paid; My mind was never yet more mercenary.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia at IV, i)
“As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia at IV, i)
“Enough is as good as a feast.”
Joshua Sylvester Quotes
Source: Works
“Give me, indulgent gods! with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene; No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.”
Edward Young Quotes
Source: Love of Fame (satire I, l. 235)
“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”
Anne Frank Quotes