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Satisfaction Quotes - Page 7

One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well.

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

I can't get no satisfaction.

FaceBook post by Mick Jagger from Apr 25, 2012

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

Meir Kahane (1973). “Meir Kahane--writings (5732-33): Selected Writings by Meir Kahane from the Year 5732-33 (1971-73).”

There is great satisfaction in a well-made clean tool that does its work well.

Liberty Hyde Bailey (1925). “The gardener: a book of brief directions for the growing of the common fruits, vegetables and flowers in the garden and about the house”

The satisfaction you get when you finally beat your dad is amazing, that rush of adrenaline.

"Lee Westwood: the secret toughness of a natural No1". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2010.

Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war.

Interview with Jill Stauffer, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.

"Fables". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, III. 1, 1668 - 1679.

To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.

George Sand, George Burnham Ives, Mary Webb Artois, J. Alfred Burgan “The Masterpieces of George Sand: She and he, and Lavinia; with memoir by J. A. Burgan”

Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

Ezra Pound (1992). “A Walking Tour in Southern France: Ezra Pound Among the Troubadours”, p.112, New Directions Publishing