Quotes About Satisfied

#1. Don't be satisfied ... always try to strive for more.

Johny Hendricks

#2. I'm a Dreamer that's no Secret it's make me Happy, Positive, Satisfied and to see the good side of Life.

Jan Jansen

#3. On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as Keram said, in a self-satisfied way, they might kill me, but they would know that, if I was with him, there would be unpleasantness afterwards.

Freya Stark

#4. It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life ... Contentment tends to breed laxity, but a healthy discontent keeps us alert to the changing needs of our time.

Frances Perkins

#5. Those who wish to sit, shut their eyes,
and meditate to know if the world's true or lies,
may do so. It's their choice. But I meanwhile
with hungry eyes that can't be satisfied
shall take a look at the world in broad daylight.

Rabindranath Tagore

#6. From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there's still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied.

Emile Zola

#7. When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Herbert Hoover

#8. I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.

M.J. Rose

#9. One of the most important discoveries I have ever made is this truth: God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in him. This is the motor that drives my ministry as a pastor. It affects everything I do.

John Piper

#10. Frustration is the first step towards improvement. I have no incentive to improve if I'm content with what I can do and if I'm completely satisfied with my pace, distance and form as a runner. It's only when I face frustration and use it to fuel my dedication that I feel myself moving forwards.

John Bingham

#11. Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

Bruce Springsteen

#12. Younger Arabs are much less satisfied with education in the region than their elders, and are more comfortable networking and communicating via digital means.

Joe Saddi

#13. I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the universe when offered ...

Freya Stark

#14. Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#15. I'm probably satisfied with my career 80 percent of the time.

Tom Berenger

#16. By the way, Boots died and Opal says she hopes you're satisfied.

Fannie Flagg

#17. We're not quitting until I'm satisfied you know what you're doing," he said in a low voice.
"Until we're both satisfied," she corrected.
Killing. Him.

Roxanne Snopek

#18. No-not other than making a record that I was satisfied with. That's usually my only goal-to make it good enough to hopefully put out there. I just tried to finish what I started, as far as my ideas for the record. Hopefully I was able to do it.

David Eugene Edwards

#19. I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine.

Colin Firth

#20. Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian's relationship with God. It's how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they're not satisfied with their prayer life.

Joyce Meyer

#21. We humans are unhappy in large part because we are insatiable; after working hard to get what we want, we routinely lose interest in the object of our desire. Rather than feeling satisfied, we feel a bit bored, and in response to this boredom, we go on to form new, even grander desires.

William B. Irvine

#22. Ignorance of ignorance, then, is that self-satisfied state of unawareness in which man, knowing nothing outside the limited area of his physical senses, bumptiously declares there is nothing more to know!

Manly Hall

#23. The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

Susan Sontag

#24. 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

#25. He felt satisfied, and that sensation should have put him on his guard; happiness is a momentary trap that disguises stubborn problems and makes us feel more vulnerable than ever to the blind legitmacy of bad luck.

Carlos Fuentes

#26. Love gratified is love satisfied,
and love satisfied is indifference begun

Samuel Richardson

#27. Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#28. When you look at - when you talk to people in Africa and across the Middle East, they're not satisfied with the way things are going. Sure, this idea of democracy was injected into the region, but it has brought mostly chaos.

Richard Engel

#29. Art and the artist meet in stages, slowly revealing themselves until both are satisfied with what the other has become.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#30. Although just being employed as an actor is a big thing, I'm not sure I'd be satisfied playing the same character for 30 years; it's not why I want to do this for a living.

Jamie Dornan

#31. It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.

Teresa Of Avila

#32. I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head.

Sylvia Plath

#33. Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise ...

Emma Thompson

#34. Men need to realize that women take longer to get aroused and satisfied - sometimes 6 -8 times longer. Make the journey pleasurable.

J.F. Kelly

#35. Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever to satisfy them appears difficult or likely to cause injury.

Epicurus

#36. Let us bless thee at all times and forget not
how thou hast
forgiven our iniquities,
healed our diseases,
redeemed our lives from destruction,
crowned us with lovingkindness and
tender mercies,
satisfied our mouths with good things,
renewed our youth like the eagle's.

Arthur Bennett

#37. Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

Alexander Graham Bell

#38. Production goes up and up because high pressure advertising and salesmanship constantly create new needs that must be satisfied: this is Admass- a consumer's race with donkeys chasing an electric carrot.

J.B. Priestley

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

Yukio Mishima

#40. In features, one of the goals is to have the audience walk out, fully satisfied. In today's world, it's maybe wanting a sequel.

Michael Brandt

#41. The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.

Claude Bernard

#42. I further know that if God has something special for you, you have a knowledge of it inside you, which causes you not to be satisfied with anything that isn't this thing. You're "restless" until you find it.

Peggy Noonan

#43. A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.

Jose Saramago

#44. I think if I ever get satisfied, I'll have to stop. It's the frustration that drives you.

Eve Arnold

#45. I have my own spiritual guru, and I'm so happy, and I feel so satisfied that I might appreciate many other famous gurus, but, you know, I am not attracted that way because I have found the person.

Ravi Shankar

#46. The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.

Gordon Allport

#47. Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

Zane Grey

#48. A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.

Henry David Thoreau

#49. 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

#50. The world conspires against our souls by blinding us to the depth and glory of their God-given design and tempting us to be satisfied with immediate gratification.

John Ortberg

#51. I always leave a box of unsalted almonds in my house. A handful of those are a good snack that should keep you satisfied.

Jenna Ushkowitz

#52. But what do you think, my lady?'
'I think that she must be cruel if she wants to be loved,' Gertrude explained. ' For once a lady succumbs to the man's desire, he rejects her as unworthy of it.'...Was love like a hunger, easily satisfied by feeding? Or did it grow by what it fed on?

Lisa Klein

#53. Without satisfaction, you cannot have compassion. You have to be satisfied souls, then your compassion will act.

Nirmala Srivastava

#54. I used to think being loved was the greatest thing to think about, but now I know love is never satisfied just thinking about it.

Bob Goff

#55. I say 'no' to nothing, 'yes' to moderation. That's how I approach everything. No matter if it's candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, you're satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day.

Carla Hall

#56. This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.

Steven Spielberg

#57. What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?

Clifford D. Simak

#58. I'm never satisfied. I always want to achieve more.

Tyler Hamilton

#59. If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

Simone Weil

#60. 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.

Nyogen Senzaki

#61. I am satisfied
with my aggressive nature
as I tickle death
under the
armpits.

Charles Bukowski

#62. We can ... treat only the geometrical aspects of mathematics and shall be satisfied in having shown that there is no problem of the truth of geometrical axioms and that no special geometrical visualization exists in mathematics.

Hans Reichenbach

#63. The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists ... It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one's spiritual attainments ... God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people.

Smith Wigglesworth

#64. I'm an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I'm a worker by nature. I'm not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that.

Rachael Taylor

#65. In the purest sensual and intimate act of lovemaking, there is a give and take, and both partners actively choose among and agree to the expressions. In reciprocal lovemaking, a woman is equally satisfied and drives the experience just as much as her man.

J.F. Kelly

#66. In some way the god had to be appeased and satisfied; for his worshipers had made him in the image and dream of themselves, and he had no great regard for human life, or womanly tears.

Will Durant

#67. You're always pushin, shovin
Satisfied with nothing
You bitch you must be gettin old

AC/DC

#68. Creation, even when it is a mere outpouring from the heart, wishes to find a public. By definition, creation is sociable. Yet it can be satisfied with merely one single reader: an old friend, a lover.

Lu Xun

#69. True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

Oscar Wilde

#70. Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.

Woodrow Wilson

#71. If you embrace your dreams gently, you'll wake up in the morning as a satisfied human child.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#72. If you're satisfied with your social life, according to psychologists, you tend to be satisfied with life in general.

Robin Marantz Henig

#73. The saint who is intimate with Jesus will never leave impressions of himself, but only the impression that Jesus is having unhindered way, because the last abyss of his nature has been satisfied by Him.

Oswald Chambers

#74. Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.

Rita Mae Brown

#75. If we, who are finite, contingent, created beings, have got God completely figured out, it makes it seem likely that we invented him ... If I am ever completely satisfied with my understanding of who God is and how he operates in the world, I am in danger of ceasing to seek Him.

Holly Ordway

#76. In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government.

Lucy Powell

#77. A satisfied need no longer motivates.

Peter Sheahan

#78. Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".

R.D. Laing

#79. My soul is not satisfied with an inert universe. The gods may not make a habit of speaking to me personally, but I can't help but whisper comments to them.

Thomm Quackenbush

#80. The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#81. You can either go to bed satisfied with your efforts today or stressed with what you left for tomorrow. You can either work hard to take on the hill or never know what it is that people see at the top.

Joe De Sena

#82. If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.

Ian McKellen

#83. I am not satisfied with the love that I am giving away because I am always hungry to give away more.

Debasish Mridha

#84. Supernatural explanations always mean the end of inquiry: that's the way God wants it, end of story. Science, on the other hand, is never satisfied: our studies of the universe will continue until humans go extinct.

Jerry A. Coyne

#85. It is because Jesus Christ experienced cosmic thirst on the cross that you and I can have our spiritual thirst satisfied.

Timothy Keller

#86. He paid scant attention to the conversation. He could smell his own sent on Anna's body, and it satisfied him in a primal way ... She gasped as he buried his nose in her maiden hair and inhaled. His scent was strongest here, in her gilded curls so soft and pretty in the morning light.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#87. I'm never satisfied. I'm always trying to get better and learn from my mistakes.

Russell Westbrook

#88. A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.

Alfred North Whitehead

#89. Growing up, she felt so unworthy of having her deepest desires satisfied, of being loved absolutely. She didn't feel that way anymore.

Sylvain Reynard

#90. It's a fine balance for an athlete in enjoying the moment and being really satisfied, say, with a run, and with your day, and knowing you can make it better in the future.

Hannah Kearney

#91. Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.

Sam Walton

#92. These are the people we elected and if we are not satisfied we should get new candidates. It is in our hands. It is our country. It is a very simplistic view that politicians are to blame for everything.

Robert Stanfield

#93. If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work beyond beyond the time necessary for the reproduction of his means of subsistence, say 8 hours a day.

Karl Marx

#94. The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied.

H.E. Bates

#95. My strong sense of discipline has always been with me, and it also gave me the need for deep affection. I have never been satisfied with acquaintances who are superficial, volatile, or quick to change. I have surrounded myself with people with whom I am in total complicity.

Giorgio Armani

#96. I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#97. The reason that man is seldom satisfied with his salary is that when it increases, he increases his expenses.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#98. Our greatest failing is that we neglect the significance of a question and obsess over the accuracy of the answer. Therefore, we end up being satisfied with remarkably accurate answers to meaningless questions and dissatisfied with imprecise answers that attempt to respond to the important issues.

D.A. Blankinship

#99. It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied.

Kahlil Gibran

#100. She had never, in her whole life, been satisfied with peace.

Rosamund Hodge