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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. – George Bernard Shaw
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. – John Wooden
Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others. – La Rochefoucauld
When the satisfaction or security of another person becomes as important to one as one's own, then a state of love exists. – Harry Stack Sullivan
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it. – George Bernard Shaw
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. – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror. – Betty Naomi Friedan
Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated. – B. C. Forbes
Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is nothing. – Malcom Mclaren
Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction. – Juliene Berk
Habits...the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction...You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction. – Juliene Berk
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. – Theodore Isaac Rubin
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. – Arnold Bennett
He who has given satisfaction to the best of his time has lived for ages. – Schiller
History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time. – Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Holidays are an expensive trial of strength. The only satisfaction comes from survival. – Jonathan Miller
I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual. – John Fellows Akers
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 ever know. – Thomas Wolfe
If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know. – Thomas Wolfe
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. – Anne Frank
Let a man?s talents or virtues be what they may, we feel satisfaction in his society only as he is satisfied in himself. We cannot enjoy the good qualities of a friend if he seems to be none the better for them. – Hazlitt
Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple. – Charles Lamb
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed. – Amanda Cross
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain. – Johnson

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