Top 100 Never Be Satisfied Quotes
#1. One of the things I've discovered, thanks to the Japanese, is that you should enjoy yourself. In the old days, I used to think: 'Oh, never be satisfied, never admit to being happy.' But there's no curse in being happy.
Jane Birkin
#2. You must wake up to the truth that whoever you are, that whatever you have or think you do not have, you are perfect in the here and now. Unless you can accept yourself, you will never be satisfied with anything, because it all begins with yourself.
Stephen Richards
#4. Prologue: There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich wanting more, that of the sick, wanting something different, and that of the traveler, who says, "anywhere but here." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mona Simpson
#5. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.
Roger Bacon
#6. You can drink from all sorts of wells, but unless the source of your water is the Living Water Himself, you will never be satisfied.
Beth Moore
#7. Their encounter confirmed what he had been unwilling to admit. Charlotte didn't taste, smell, or feel like any other woman he had ever known. She wasn't like any other woman and never would be. And he would never be satisfied with another woman now that he'd touched her.
Sebastian
Ally Broadfield
#8. I try to never be satisfied; this way I will always be challenging my spirit.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#9. And the desire would never be satisfied, except by a being of equal greatness.
Ayn Rand
#10. Comrade, you and I can never be satisfied with sitting down before a great human problem and saying nothing can be done. We must do something. That is the reason we are here on Earth.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#12. I want to play challenging characters. You should never be satisfied.
Bryan Greenberg
#13. You should never be satisfied with a little if you are capable of using and enjoying more.
Abhishek Kumar
#14. I'll never be satisfied in classical ballet. It'll never be good enough. I'll never be happy with most of my product.
David Hallberg
#15. God says he will never be satisfied with the infidels. In terms of worldly affairs, America is very strong. Even if it were twice as strong or twice that, it could not be strong enough to defeat us. We are confident that no one can harm us if God is with us.
Mohammed Omar
#16. Any player coming to Spurs whether he's a big signing or just a ground staff boy must be dedicated to the game and to the club. He must be prepared to work at his game. He must never be satisfied with his last performance, and he must hate losing.
Bill Nichols
#17. Stay hungry to become the best that you can be. Never be satisfied with the level of artistry you've attained. You can always be better.
Mia Michaels
#18. Happiness is not about... who you are, where you are, what you have... or what you are doing. It is what you think about it. If you think your life is already enough, and that's enough. But if you want something out of your reach, then you will never be satisfied all the time.
Yuli Pritania
#19. You will never be satisfied until you are completely satisfied with God.
Jerry Kinard
#20. You will never be satisfied with anything less than the highest you can attain.
Apoorve Dubey
#21. What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that man want who has enough? Or what is he the better for abundance that can never be satisfied.
Roger L'Estrange
#22. Listen to me, even when you lose, it's OK to lose, but you can never get comfortable with it. You can never be satisfied with losing. When you lose, it's got to hurt.
Eric Thomas
#23. If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.
Leo Tolstoy
#24. One of the benefits of eating salad is that you can eat tons of it and never be satisfied.
Jim Gaffigan
#25. I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations.
Placido Domingo
#26. The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded.
Sathya Sai Baba
#27. Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
#28. Man must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just the beginning.
Leo Buscaglia
#29. 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
Edward De Bono
#30. There's always a way you can get better. You can never be satisfied. You can never say, 'That's good enough'.
Kron Gracie
#32. John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there's a lot of truth to that.
Tom Bodett
#33. I think people who struggle to define themselves might never be satisfied because there is no definition. Living with responsibility is important, but I don't really think you have to grow up.
Kristen Bell
#34. I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
Walter Chrysler
#35. The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.
Epicurus
#36. Their eyes met again, and this time there were no great answers there, only questions that would never be satisfied. A
Steven Barnes
#37. I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force - never be satisfied with what I've done.
Thierry Henry
#39. Like a true artist, never be satisfied that your writing cannot be improved.
Andrew McAleer
#40. Never be satisfied with the world's standard of Christianity!
J.C. Ryle
#41. You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients.
Robert Herjavec
#42. My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.
Thierry Henry
#43. But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all the requisitions of art.
Henry David Thoreau
#44. The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished.
Martin Luther
#45. I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
Abraham Lincoln
#46. I think one of the pitfalls of doing your own music is that sometimes you can never be satisfied with it: you're afraid to say that it's done, and you keep reworking it or re-recording it or re-writing it.
Adam Schlesinger
#47. I have found my cross and it is a heavy one, but I shall never be satisfied until I take it up and carry it.
Charles M. Sheldon
#48. Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.
Rose Tremain
#50. Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.'
Gerald R. Ford
#51. ...but with each step I took I could feel it; like an itch under the skin, I was only ever aware of it enough to know that it could never be satisfied.
Brielle A. Marino
#52. When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
Dalai Lama
#53. To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends.
I'd never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with my favorite people.
C.S. Lewis
#54. You must begin to trust yourself. If you do not then you will forever be looking to others to prove your own merit to you, and you will never be satisfied. You will always be asking others what to do, and at the same time, resenting those from whom you seek such aid.
Jane Roberts
#55. When your focus on earth is only on material things and earthly blessings you will never be satisfied.
Sunday Adelaja
#56. Every time you do something that comes from your needs for acceptance, affirmation, or affection, and every time you do something that makes these needs grow, you know that you are not with God. These needs will never be satisfied; they will only increase when you yield to them.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#57. Jesus taught that we'll never be satisfied with anything we own, only with Who owns us.
Ken Hutcherson
#58. You can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied.
Rajneesh
#59. You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
Richard M. Nixon
#60. Never be satisfied with where you are in the area of spiritual growth. Cultivate an insatiability for more of God by examining your weaknesses, beholding the perfection of Christ, and finding good examples of strengths you want to develop.
Matt Chandler
#61. The soul's deepest thirst is for God Himself, who has made us so that we can never be satisfied without Him.
F.F. Bruce
#62. I will never be satisfied, like the Olympics.
Li Ka-shing
#63. Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied ... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.
Akira Kurosawa
#64. Never limit yourself, never be satisfied, and smile-it's free!
Jennie Finch
#65. One must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just a beginning.
Leo Buscaglia
#66. The artist alone among men knows what true humility means. His reach forever exceeds his grasp. He can never be satisfied with his work. He knows when he has done well, but he knows he has never attained his dream. He knows he never can.
Rheta Childe Dorr
#67. I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.
Toyo Ito
#68. It's sad to know how blind we are when it comes to appreciation. We have to lose something to gain knowledge of its worth. The best gift of life is love, the second is health. Most of us have both but will never be satisfied.
Abraham Ruiz
#69. Every job is different. I don't think that I've ever had that wonderful feeling when you've finished a job or where you feel like you've mastered it or sort of nailed it ... You can never be satisfied. If you're satisfied, it's time to retire.
Alfred Molina
#70. I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for the betterment for me.
Jayne Mansfield
#71. The heart of a man can never be satisfied with the things of this world. It is always empty, and hungry, and thirsty, and dissatisfied, till it comes to Christ. It is only they who hear Christ's voice, and follow Him, and feed on Him by faith, who are 'filled.'.
J.C. Ryle
#72. Until our hearts find complete security and significance in God's unconditional love, we will never be satisfied.
Renee Swope
#73. Once you've been number one, you can never be satisfied with less.
Chris Evert
#74. Believe in the best ... have a goal for the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and in the long run things will turn out for the best
Henry Ford
#75. Whilst man is in one location, he thinks of another. Dancing with one woman, he can't help but long to see the quiet curve of another's nude shoulder; to never be satisfied, to never have the mind and body cheerfully stranded in a single location - this is the curse of the human race!
Marisha Pessl
#76. I am truly happy with what I've got. But if I could alter something, it would be my hands. I've never been satisfied with them - I would love longer fingers.
Carolina Herrera
#77. The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of mediocrity must be satisfied. Amuse the people, be their clown, give them platitudes about which they can laugh, shadows of truth which they can hold as truths.
Aleksandar Hemon
#78. For the need to think can never be stilled by allegedly definite insights of "wise men"; it can be satisfied only through thinking, and the thoughts I had yesterday will satisfy this need today only to the extent that I want and am able to think them anew.
Hannah Arendt
#79. Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.
William Hazlitt
#80. I've never really been satisfied with a book. I always want it to be better.
Ruth Rendell
#81. I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
Ralph Ellison
#82. I hope the time will never come when I shall feel satisfied. To reach the goal of one's ambitions must be tragic.
N. C. Wyeth
#83. Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.
Samuel Johnson
#84. I don't like the word 'satisfaction' - never have. I don't think I'll be satisfied with anything, really, to be honest.
Tom Coughlin
#85. I hope I don't get driven to the point where, to be honest, I'm never satisfied. I hope there's some part of me that can be content.
Ben Schwartz
#86. If you are searching for your purpose in life then you're never going to be satisfied. This life will never satisfy you. You'll never be happy and you'll never be content. The only really contentment or true happiness is with Christ.
Mark Teixeira
#87. You will never be more secure, you will never be more safe, and you will never be happier, more satisfied, than when you are trusting and obeying: resting in sovereignty and surrendering to sovereignty.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#88. Strive to be the best you can be ... focus, watch, listen, and learn. Try never to be satisfied with 'good enough' ... and above all, love what you do-share that passion with others, and always stay humble. Nobody likes a 'big head' no matter how good you are.
Robby Naish
#89. We're surrounded by Universal Desire. It's not happiness; it's desire. And desires are never satisfied, because once they are, they cease to be desires
Paulo Coelho
#90. Reason is a terrible trap because you will be satisfied with answers. And if you are satisfied with answers, you'll never come to know what life really is.
Frederick Lenz
#91. To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#92. There is no man on the face of the earth who can satisfy the deepest longings of a woman's heart
God made us in such a way that we can never be truly satisfied with anything or anyone less than Himself
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#93. I immediately doubt things if I become satisfied with them. Being satisfied by something is a real danger for me. I hope I never lose that. That would be death.
Jamie Wyeth
#94. Here lies the basic flaw of all doubt. It can never really be satisfied. No evidence is ever fully, finally enough. Doubt wants always to consume, never to consummate. It clamors endlessly for an answer and so drowns out any answer that might be given it.
Mark Buchanan
#95. We will never be truly healthy, satisfied, or fulfilled if we live apart and alienated from the environment from which we evolved.
Birthright: People and Nature in the Modern World
Stephen R. Kellert
#96. Successful people (or soon-to-be success people) never quit, never settle and are never satisfied
Nick Macri
#97. If I find a cow turd on my front steps, I'm not satisfied knowing that I'll be mentally prepared to find some future cow turd. I want to shovel that turd onto my garden and hope the cow returns every week so I never have to buy fertilizer again.*
Scott Adams
#98. The stomach is the only part of man which can be fully satisfied. The yearning of man's brain for new knowledge and experience and for more pleasant and comfortable surroundings never can be completely met. It is an appetite which cannot be appeased.
Thomas A. Edison
#99. I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the
downtrodden of every race and language and color.'
Thaddeus Stevens
#100. A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)
Peter Newmark
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