These satisfaction quotes will inspire you. Satisfaction, a happy or pleased feeling because of something that you did or something that happened to you or fulfillment of one’s wishes, expectations, or needs, or the pleasure derived from this.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging satisfaction quotes, satisfaction sayings, and satisfaction proverbs.
Best Satisfaction Quotes
- “Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.” ~ Walt Whitman
- “What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one’s ideal.” ~ Anna Pavlova
- “To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.” ~ Khalil Gibran , Life satisfaction quotes
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“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” ~ Epictetus
- “I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “Human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself.” ~ Dalai Lama
- “When you offer a vibration, the Universal forces are working in concert with each other in order to satisfy you. You really are the center of the Universe.” ~ Esther Hicks
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“Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction” ~ Victoria Principal
- “The satisfaction that I get from doing what I do is not what I thought. I thought it would be that I’d feel like a star, I’d feel important. But I don’t” ~ Lee Ann Womack
- “A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.” ~ B. H. Liddell Hart
- “With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.” ~ Geddy Lee
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“In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.” ~ John Selden
- “The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.” ~ Eric Hoffer
- “In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.” ~ W. H. Auden
- “In my line of business, there’s no better feeling than having a real nice work that you’re really satisfied with.” ~ Gregg Allman
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“Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.” ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- “Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.” ~ Henri Matisse
- “Nothing gives quite the satisfaction that doing things brings.” ~ Sherwood Anderson
- “At times I come across works of mine which are soundly done and really in my style, and at such moments I find great solace.” ~ Camille Pissarro
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“Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.” ~ James Cash Penney
- “Art is there for nourishment, not explication.” ~ Walter Darby Bannard
- “A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.” ~ Jean Baudrillard
- “Every great business is built on friendship.” ~ James Cash Penney
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“I am easily satisfied with the very best.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.” ~ Pablo Picasso
- “There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.” ~ Salvador Dali
- “Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.” ~ Charles Baudelaire
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“Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You’d be amazed how many companies don’t listen to their customers.” ~ Ross Perot
- “As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “Customer satisfaction is worthless. Customer loyalty is priceless.” ~ Jeffrey Gitomer
- “I think we each have a personal sweet spot as well. It’s the state of mind in which we experience the most joy and satisfaction in being ourselves. And from that place of pleasure and joy in being ourselves, energy arises to flow out into our day bringing with it the depth and resonance of our own beingness, bringing with it blessing.” ~ David Spangler
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“Unless you have 100% customer satisfaction, you must improve.” ~ Horst Schulze
- “If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.” ~ Horace
- “My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.” ~ Faye Wattleton
- “Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves” ~ Steve Jobs
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“The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.” ~ Niklaus Wirth
- “Every company’s greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.” ~ Michael LeBoeuf
- “Show me a thoroughly satisfied man – and I will show you a failure.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
- “Well done is better than well said.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
- “The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.” ~ Howard Cosell
- “The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one’s neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.” ~ Aleister Crowley
- “The purpose of a business is to create a customer.” ~ Peter Drucker
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“There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.” ~ B. C. Forbes
- “In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?” ~ Charles de Gaulle
- “They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.” ~ Matthew Henry
- “Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.” ~ Napoleon Hill
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“Would you not like to try all sorts of lives – one is so very small – but that is the satisfaction of writing – one can impersonate so many people.” ~ Katherine Mansfield
- “Young people are threatened… by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.” ~ Pope John Paul II
- “Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.” ~ James Cash Penney
- “Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.” ~ Lawrence Durrell
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“Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!” ~ John Piper
- “A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
- “A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.” ~ Madonna Ciccone
- “There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.” ~ Walter Reuther
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“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
- “Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]” ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- “There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one’s errors.” ~ Dale Carnegie
- “Don’t just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction” ~ Kathy Ireland
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“You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there’s nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can’t walk away from it.” ~ Wentworth Miller
- “You can never get enough of ‘Jeopardy.'” ~ Kirsten Dunst
- “From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.” ~ Andre Gide
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“There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “Satisfy a few to please many is bad.” ~ Friedrich Schiller
- “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.” ~ Horace
