Quotation Explorer - 'Satisfied'

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch. - Pope John Paul II
I work every day to live my life in such a way that when I take my last breath, I will be satisfied I made a difference and I was an inspiration; that I left something behind that will be meaningful to society; I did not shame my family, disappoint my friends or ruin my good name. - Carlos Wallace
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires. - Alexander Graham Bell
Human nature is never satisfied. - Becky Watson
Be happy, but never satisfied. - Bruce Lee
For who ever lived totally as they wanted to; who ever, if they have time to think about it, dies wholly satisfied? And those who remain know it. - Fay Weldon
I have the simplest of tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. - Oscar Wilde
Are you satisfied with you? Great! Are not you? Let's start in the mirror... - Da Anunciação Marco
All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. - Compton Gage
You probably have the ability to get what you want. And you likely have everything you need to be completely satisfied. But do you also have the ability to want what you've got? That just may be one of the most important questions you will ever answer. - Steve Goodier
Ideas become reality. once you hit that reality, you get a new idea. it's a virtuous upward spiral. However, the majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea. - Richie Norton
Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold. - Brad Pitt
If you are not satisfied with the things you have got then stop crying and start working and go get those things that will satisfy you. - Amit Kalantri
Successful people (or soon-to-be success people) never quit, never settle and are never satisfied - Nick Macri
The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress. - Confucius
I FELT HAPPINESS LIKE A BLIND,TILL I HAD A SATISFIED MIND.SORROW FOR WHAT I LOST,IS LIKE DREAMS THAT COST. - merlin8thomas
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. - Pythagoras
The majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea. - Richie Norton
Wake up with a purpose and make every effort to succeed. Many people spend their lives just going through the motions. They are satisfied with their daily routines or habitual lifestyles. Don't be complacent with those activities. Challenge yourself to be better, do greater things. - Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. - Bertrand Russell
A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. - Samuel Johnson
London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it. - Dorothy Parker
Recently I keep thinking that this isn’t about the survival of a species. It’s about why we’re never satisfied with what we need, why we always take a bit more. - Wu Ming-Yi
He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing . - Epicurus
One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well. - Karl Kraus
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others. - William Hazlitt
What I want, it is my ego’s demand. What I get, my ego is not satisfied with that. - Debasish Mridha
Progress stops when you are satisfied with yourself. - Sumitkumar Dhule
The artist is the only one qualified to criticize his art, because only the artist knows what he was trying to express and how satisfied he is with the attempt. - Ron Brackin
He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well. - Baltasar Gracián
If you go deeper into the details of your calling, finding out new things about it, seeking wisdom and understanding from God on it, this in itself will cause you to be successful. He that tills his land will be satisfied with bread. - Pastor Adelaja Sunday
I rather miss my wild girl; but if I get a strong, helpful, tender-hearted woman in her place, I shall feel quite satisfied. - Louisa May Alcott
God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him - John Piper
You start getting satisfied you stop getting better. - Sachin Kumar Puli
the voice taunted, and threatened: "you are afraid, unhappy, dissatisfied, what if…."but I knew, this was not His language for motivating my heart,so I waited quietly to hear my Father's native tongue, "I love, I am satisfied, I trust, this is the way..." - and I moved. - Kate Mullane Robertson
I don't have money but I have something even money can't buy - Satisfaction. I'm satisfied with whatever little I have. - Saru Singhal
[T]he vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches. - Aldous Huxley
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. - Oscar Wilde
Be Happy not Satisfied; Focus on what you have to be HAPPY and focus on your potential to feel ‘NOT SATISFIED - Harrish Sairaman
I always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Two there are, who are never satisfied; The lover of the world and the lover of Knowledge. - Jalaluddin Rumi
Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied. - Zadie Smith
We know that in some way, incomprehensible to us, his suffering satisfied the demands of justice, ransomed penitent souls from the pains and penalties of sin, and made mercy available to those who believe in his holy name. - Bruce R. McConkie
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
It is not until you rhyme with a person that makes you their perfect match, it is when you are satisfied with each others peculiarities, and find jewels in their loopholes. - Michael Bassey Johnson
It is vain to say human beings might be satisfied with tranquillity; they must have action, and they will make it if they can not find it. - Charlotte Bronte
Is God satisfied with you or could it be that God looks at you and fails to see a man, only a bunch of flesh Full of self, and missing out on the purpose for his or her creation? What does God see, think and feel when he looks at you? - Sunday Adelaja
They think that if they were allowed to do anything they desired, they would be satisfied and the more desires the better. But all desires divorced from The Desire eventually collapse in on themselves. - Geoffrey Wood
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it. - Margaret Thatcher
Shopping is better than sex. If you're not satisfied after shopping you can make an exchange for something you really like.
Hal yg disenangi dan bikin senang gak harus dilakukan berulang-ulang (sering) tapi berkualitas, makes you happy and satisfied. Satisfied terkadang karena unplanned, bisa dari hati atau spontaneous.. - Setyo Setiaji
We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species. - Desmond Morris
We live in a world full of people who are satisfied with pretending to be someone they are not. - Tommy Tran
Favoring 'resolution' the way we do, it is hard for us men to write great love stories. Why?, because we want to tell too much. We aren’t satisfied unless at the end of the story the characters are lying there, panting. - Roman Payne
A beautiful bright blue sky; up above so high; how happy i am; to feel fully satisfied. - Santosh Kalwar
I am not satisfied with the love that I am giving away because I am always hungry to give away more. - Debasish Mridha
Sin said, "Lust was never satisfied. She was the largest of the three, and had the loudest, most unforgiving cry. When I tried to give her breast milk, Lust wanted more food in addition, so I began to supplement my breast milk. - Stephen and Tiffany Domena
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied. - Henry George
Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master. - Sallust
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. - Elbert Hubbard
The mind can never be satisfied. - Wallace Stevens
Who is satisfied, like the trees, with just existing? - Marty Rubin
You will never be satisfied until you are completely satisfied with God. - Jerry Kinard
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied. - Sir Walter Raleigh
As for you, your happiness is complete; it remains merely to enjoy it. And to become perfectly happy you are in need of nothing more than to know how to be satisfied with being so.
If you feel completely satisfied, you have hit the right answer, coz if not? you may have missed something, It could be the answer itself or it could be both your prayer and the answer! - Bradley B. Dalina
Human beings feel an obligation to have a definate opinion on issues they can never truly know. They need to learn to be satisfied with "I don't know". - Nathanie Randall
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. - Niccolo Machiavelli
The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong acquire by force, the weak by petitioning. - Ludwig von Mises
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. - Charlotte Bronte
The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire. - Slavoj Žižek
A beautiful life is a life that is content and satisfied with material possessions, and has an abundance of hope, love, laughter, kindness, and compassion. - Debasish Mridha
My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best. - Winston S. Churchill
For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than his surface to others. - Paul Auster
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. - Lord Acton
I am serving the purpose for which I was designed, therefore I am satisfied with my existence. - Kevin J. Anderson
The reason that man is seldom satisfied with his salary is that when it increases, he increases his expenses. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Flesh gets its food, its sex, its sleep and is satisfied. But the mind is never satisfied. - Marty Rubin
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
War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost. - Karl Kraus
Do not be satisfied by just getting what you need, strive and work harder to get what you want. - Auliq Ice
In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself to nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire. - Teresa of Ávila
He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her. - W. Somerset Maugham
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible. - Aristotle
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; its when you had everything to do, and you've done it. - Margaret Thatcher
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
Theory of public goods. Theory that if I take you euro (as an elected state government) and give fifty cents back... you will be happier and I will be satisfied. - Radovan Kavický
It is in your hands to make life miserable or happy. No religion, spiritual leaders or knowledge will ever make you fully satisfied. - Santosh Kalwar
Consuming pornography does not lead to more sex, it leads to more porn. Much like eating McDonalds everyday will accustom you to food that (although enjoyable) is essentially not food, pornography conditions the consumer to being satisfied with an impression of extreme sex rather than the real. - Virginie Despentes
SOMETIMES WHAT WE WANT BUT CANT GET IT, EVEN WE DO NOT TRY TO GET IT. AT LAST WE SATISFIED JUST FAILURE. - RUPEE
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he is not a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. - Georges Clemenceau
Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting. - Bertrand Russell
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
A responsible citizen is the one that sees something wrong in the society, something he is not satisfied with or that he cannot agree with and responds not by blaming the government or leaders. But by designing ways and means of bringing a lasting solution to the issues at hand - Sunday Adelaja
I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence. - Thomas Jefferson
People think they are not satisfied with what they have but in true sense they are not satisfied with what they are. - Amit Kalantri
There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he one, I will indulge the other. - Mary Shelley
I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best. - Oscar Wilde
In search for love, where love is some Oxytocin,seeking happiness related to Orexin. Sensations of glory, motivation and success, They are all some precious chemicals. Our mind is greedy, and falls into depression when he is no longer satisfied. LIFE IS A DRUG STORE WE ARE ALL JUNKIES. - Omar EL KADMIRI
I can never be satisfied; I always look for more. - Ane Krstevska
I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time? - Walter Scott
Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. - Bible
There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means. - Albert Jay Nock
Let your imagination spread, until you are satisfied, like I am. - Chres May
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. - Aristotle
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. - Horace
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character. - James Bridie
Live your lives in such a way that you would be sure you are productive, effective and satisfied on all levels. - Sunday Adelaja
‎I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, jar of octopus, cuckoo's cry, 5-7-5, but now I want a russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping, another 75 of what you think staring at your window. - Dean Young
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